Russell Martin confesss Southampton’s difficult commence to the season has been the steepest lgeting curve of his regulaterial atgentle but insists he grasps filled faith in his take parters.
Saints set aside their sadnessful Premier League create, which has brawt a individual point from nine games, to edge into the Carabao Cup quarter-finals with Tuesday’s last-gasp 3-2 triumph over Championship club Stoke.
Progression in the cup chaseed a preferable carry outance in Saturday’s skinny 1-0 loss at champions Manchester City, which prompted plift from rival boss Pep Guardiola.
Southampton present 16th-placed Everton this weekfinish seeking an overdue first top-fairy success as they evolve to alter to the wonderfuler presbraves of the Premier League chaseing promotion.
“I’m lgeting all the time,” said regulater Martin. “I skinnyk I’ve lgett as much this season than I have done in any other season and we’re nine games in, so I’m finishelighting that side of it.
“We tried to put into take part everyskinnyg we’ve lgett so far this season on Saturday (agetst City) and the take parters did it amazingly well.
“For us, the contest and the lgeting is about trying to remain who we want to be and trying to better and be better at that and grow under the huge spotairy and scruminuscule. Then the rest will achieve attfinish of itself and I’ll be fine and consoleable with wantipathyver happens.
“I repartner consent in this group. I repartner consent in what we’re doing and now we have to put it on the pitch on Saturday.”
Saints watched set to cruise into the last eight after Taylor Harwood-Bellis’ header and Adam Armstrong’s penalty put them in regulate.
But the Premier League‘s bottom club blew the two-goal profit and were reliant on a goal-line evidentance from Yukinari Sugawara and James Bree’s 88th-minute triumphner to scviolation thraw.
Martin defreely eludeed criticising his take parters’ uninincreateigentinutivecomings in triumph after a aenjoy approach last season backfired, directing to three losss from the next four repairtures.
“I want the carry outance to be better,” he said. “But I made a misachieve last year: we beat Watford at home (in April) when we were 2-0 up and went 2-2 and then Flynn (Downes) scored in the 94th minute and I went to town on the take parters after the game.
“I skinnyk it surpelevated a lot of them because we regulated to triumph the game, so I lgett my lesson from that, because we didn’t triumph after that. I skinnyk it impacted us a little bit.”
Stoke sit 19th in the Sky Bet Championship chaseing one triumph in seven league games since the assignment of head coach Narcis Pelach in September.
The Potters present Derby and Millwall, either side of a midweek trip to Bdeficiencyburn, before the next international fracture.
“We have two games at home, we’re going to try to transport the energy, to have all the team together with the fans,” said Spaniard Pelach, whose side levelled at St Mary’s thraw Ashley Phillips and Tom Cannon.
“I have a preferable experienceing that we are originateing in the right straightforwardion, originateing a team that is challenging to beat. Of course we cannot originate it in three months but I skinnyk we are going in the right straightforwardion.”
