Southampton midfielder Armstrong: We couldn't handle West Brom style | OneFootball

Southampton midfielder Stuart Armstrong admits they blew a big chance after their thumping by West Brom.

Victory would've lifted Ralph Hasenhüttl's side to 12th, only for strikes from Matheus Pereira, Matt Phillips and Callum Robinson to leave Saints in 14th.

Commenting after full-time, Armstrong said: “They caught us a little bit sleepy at the start of the game and are obviously playing for a lot of big points, but so are we.

“We want to gain positions and two were up for grabs tonight which we didn't take, so there's a big feeling of disappointment, but I think with this one we've only got ourselves to blame.

“We lost two goals where we feel we could've done a lot better. Second half we were a lot brighter, controlled the game and created a number of half chances, nothing clear-cut, and couldn't get our goal and when the third one went in it was very much an uphill climb from there.

"I think our start last week was very similar to tonight, but we finished the game very strongly, and probably in our minds we wanted to carry that on into tonight's game, but it was a different style of game tonight. They were very direct, very physical and got the better of us, for certainly the first part of the game."