Bournemouth 3-1 Southampton: Russell Martin 'didn't recognise team'

Southampton boss Russel Martin after Southampton's 3-1 defeat at Bournemouth on Monday: "We started the game really well, but there was a spell where we stopped doing the stuff we worked on. They then score and the response from us was outrageously poor.

"There's so much stuff that I've seen that really surprised and hurt me. The lack of aggression, fight, courage, intensity. There was too much self-preservation, feeling sorry for ourselves and poor body language.

"I didn't recognise our team. I didn't like a lot of what I saw, and I was hurt by the lack of spirit and fight.

"You always choose how you respond to certain moments and obviously I haven't given some of them enough belief.

"In the second half, they [the substitutes] showed that. They came on and made the right choice by fighting and being good team-mates. It was actually a good [second-half performance] but it's irrelevant when you're 3-0 down.

"It's all learning. They'll either learn from it or they won't. We have an incredible challenge on Saturday [at Arsenal ], so we'll see what choice they make."