Southampton star insists Saints have deserved more as pressure mounts on Russell Martin

Southampton person taken conscionable 1 constituent from their archetypal 7 games backmost successful the Premier League pursuing promotion from the Championship successful the playoffs past term

Cameron Archer swallowed Southampton’s sixth decision successful 7 games and warned his team-mates: “Don’t fto it resistance america down.”

Saints’ adjacent crippled aft the planetary interruption is simply a monolithic location day with Leicester, and for under-pressure brag Russell Martin it could beryllium a line-in-the-sand moment.

Archer broke his Premier League duck for the play with a slick decorativeness to springiness Martin’s strugglers little anticipation of a daze triumph astatine Arsenal.

But Southampton are the division’s lowest scorers, and with a prohibitive extremity quality already stacking up against them, Archer knows they request to crook committedness into points.

He said: “I don’t deliberation 1 constituent from 7 games is simply a existent reflection of what we tin bash arsenic a team, but erstwhile you marque mistakes successful the Premier League you get punished, truthful we request to instrumentality distant those mistakes and play with much courage.”

It’s games similar Leicester, alternatively than noble defeats astatine Arsenal, which volition specify Saints’ season, but Archer warned: “Yes, but we said that astir the Bournemouth crippled past week and possibly we enactment excessively overmuch unit connected ourselves.

“We request to play however we privation to play, nary substance who’s the opponent.”

Martin has been irritated by Saints being “written off” truthful aboriginal successful the season, and Archer added: “It depends however you privation to spell astir it - you tin either usage it arsenic information oregon fto it resistance you down.

“Personally, I deliberation you request to deliberation positively and absorption connected what you request to do, which means winning games and putting points connected the board.”

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