BRETT ORMEROD heads to Anfield tonight hoping to repeat his Tranmere hat-trick heroics.

The £1.5m striker helped kick-start Saints' season in the previous round of the Worthington Cup with three superbly taken goals on the way to a comprehensive 6-1 victory.

Since then the club has been on an excellent run of form with consecutive victories against Manchester City, Aston Villa and Fulham, before a 2-1 loss at Manchester United on Saturday which hardly did justice to the performance.

The fixture list has thrown up one of the toughest weeks imaginable for Saints with tonight's Anfield trip coming just four days after the Old Trafford match.

But Ormerod says the players remain full of confidence.

He said: "James Beattie is on fire at the moment and hopefully we can keep that going.

"Anfield is a great stadium and we are looking forward to playing there.

"We have been more attacking lately and we are trying to create more chances. I am enjoying it and it will be a big stage to play on, but I just try and take each day and each game as it comes.

"We try and approach every game the same and we want to win every game and there is certainly no reason why we can't at Anfield."

Ormerod said the squad had taken plenty of positives from matching Manchester United for most of Saturday's Premiership clash.

"We can take some heart from Saturday, because we were unfortunate," he said.

"We knew that they would have a lot of the ball and they are still a team full of internationals with players worth millions of pounds.

"Not many come away with any points or even play well, so we should be proud.

"I just want to carry it on and personally I want to get some chances and then hopefully score."

Although the Worthington Cup has been devalued in recent seasons by sides like Liverpool fielding sub-standard teams, Ormerod said Saints would be going all out for the win.

"We will most definitely be taking it seriously, the final is a trip to the Millennium Stadium, a trophy and a place in Europe at the end of the day," he said. After an impressive month of October, the 26-year-old frontman added that everyone at the club was working hard to keep the run going.

"It's been a very good month for everyone here at Southampton football club but there's no point getting carried away," he said.

"Football's a very fickle sport and a few games ago people were asking me why we'd made such a poor start to the season, but it's amazing how quickly things can turn around.

"What has changed is that we're creating more chances, scoring more goals and conceding fewer, but that's not down to a change in the way we've been playing.

"It's important to keep plugging away regardless of whether things are going your way or not, and it's probably even more crucial that you do it when the breaks aren't going your way."