Steve Wigley reckons Saints will benefit from playing their FA Youth Cup semi-final second leg away from St Mary's.

Saints, who claimed the advantage with a 1-0 win last night, were backed by a bumper 5,621 crowd but head of youth Wigley believes there will be less pressure on the under-18s at Molineux.

Wolves are expecting more than 10,000 for a match which could see Saints reach the final for the first time in the club's history.

Wigley said: "The crowd were fantastic - there was a great game on the box - but thankfully more than 5,000 Southampton fans showed they would rather watch the club's youth team than Chelsea.

"But when you're young sometimes it's harder to play at home. I don't think it's necessarily an advantage because there's more pressure.

"There's a lot of expectation when they play at home but I'm sure our players will enjoy it up there and we'll be going to play football.

"If I turned round to these players and said we'd switch our formation to 4-5-1, they wouldn't be too happy!

"I fancy us against anyone because we'll always create chances and I believe we'll score up there."

The pace Saints have makes them a major threat on the counter attack away from home, where they have scored seven goals in their two FA Youth Cup ties at QPR and West Ham.

But at St Mary's they have been restricted to three tense 1-0 wins against Norwich, Arsenal and now Wolves.

Wigley added: "The lads are disappointed but there has to be a bit of realism in a semi-final of a major competition.

"It was never going to be three or four nil but we restricted Wolves to very few chances and Nathan Dyer nearly scored a fantastic goal at the end with a great run.

"We played well in the first half but never got going in the second, when it seemed to be one injury after another, and that was frustrating.

"We could have turned it on a bit more and we had chances, particularly from set pieces, to take the tie away from them but at 1-0 it's all set up for the second leg up there.

"Wolves were very well organised, they came here to keep it tight so they could take us back to Molineux for the second leg with every chance of turning it around.

"They grew in confidence and we became sloppy in the last 25 minutes."

Wigley added: "We've had a great season but there's nothing won so far.

"For most of the season we tell the youngsters that the performance is more important than the result, but now it's the other way round - we're at the business end of the season."

Away goals will NOT come into the equation at Molineux next week. If Saints and Wolves finish level after extra-time, penalties will decide which team plays Spurs or Ipswich in the two-legged final.