Every word Southampton's Russell Martin said ahead of AFC Bournemouth

Now the dust has settled, have you had to lift the players after facing Ipswich Town?

RM: I think the process is always the same, regardless of the result, but we had a good week. We won in the cup and then we picked up our first point.

Albeit it was frustrating that we didn't win, there was so much good stuff. We created a lot of chances. We should have scored a couple more goals and we didn't.

Then we didn't manage the big moment well enough at the end. So I think it's all part of learning for a very young team, a very young squad.

I think we'll be better for it and we will use the frustration that we felt on Saturday and the anger and the hurt at not getting three points in a good way.

I really believe that. I think the players are fantastic at doing that and they have big trust in the way we work and in each other.

I think we're in a better place last week than we were before the start of the week. I think we're trying to get better all the time at being the team we want to be.

Saturday was a step towards that. We have a point. Albeit frustrating we didn't have three, but now we need to build on that.

How much of your work this season will be about psychology? 

RM: I think it's the same as being at any level. The psychology, it's a psychological game.It's the most important bit.

It's not getting trapped in this false loop of positivity all the time and it's going to be okay. Show the good stuff but also understand why we didn't quite get over the line.

Why we haven't had the results we maybe feel we should have or why we haven't had the points on the board that maybe the data suggests we should have.

So that's about feeling and that's about understanding each other and understanding what we want and what's required all the time.

The team is built on a couple of things that are so important and we have to bring them all the time. The players know that. So it's never just about tactics.

It's never just about session design, all that. It's about feeling and getting the right balance between being demanding and showing them a lot of love.

I feel it's something we do very well and they know they're trusted. They know we care about them. But also we have to win. It's an industry where we have to win.

I think I'm learning more and more all the time about the group. We're learning more and more about what's required, especially at this level.

I think that the biggest difference is some people have a preconception of the level because of what they've been through before or just the scrutiny and the intensity of it.

But I hope in the five games we've had they have enough feeling, and I believe it, that to feel fear of the Premier League or certain players and teams is completely natural.

You have to embrace it and really seize the opportunity we have. And I feel more and more they are doing that and the results will follow.

I have to trust that because in five years it's always followed a good process and a good feeling of being honest with each other and embracing that fear.

Then getting through it with hard work and clarity. And I trust that will be the same again.

What is the team news for this match - any new injuries?

RM: No, I don't think so. I think we also have no-one coming back that we didn't expect. Ross Stewart is back in now and he'll come onto the pitch.

Kamaldeen Sulemana is still a little bit away from being on the training pitch with us. So no, I think the team news is very, very much the same.

We just have to pick a team to win the game. Will Smallbone will be another week or two. Maybe even the other side of the international break but we'll do our very best for the Arsenal game.

Tyler Dibling has hit the headlines - how do you manage that?

RM: Tyler was unfortunate not to play earlier because he had an amazing pre-season. So he has an incredible belief in himself in a really nice, humble and modest way.

But he has to just keep living at 100 per cent and understand where that is and understand what's got him this far.

I think he has a brilliant support network with his family. He has a lot of trust from us and he has that back. It's not always plain sailing with young players.

So to make him understand that and to make him understand what's really important for him and for us - and we're fortunate.

At this minute in time, he couldn't play for every team. He suits the way we play a lot and he's getting so much better at the stuff he needs to improve on.

But he needs to continue to grow and develop and stay so hungry. I think that's always a challenge with young players when they have a quick rise to keep them hungry.

To keep them humble and to keep them wanting to learn, improve and develop. But with Tyler, I don't see that being a problem. He's such a calm and confident boy in the nicest way.

As long as he maintains his sense of self and his character and his personality, and that's up to us to help him do that along with his family, then I've got no worries about him.

With regard to him playing, if he's playing well and in form, he'll be treated exactly the same as Adam Lallana at 36 years old. I don't think age comes into it.

I think it's part of the reason we were brought to this football club is our record of developing young talent and young players and turning them into established players.

Then making them valuable assets for a club as well. I think we've known the plan with Tyler. Last year was very difficult for him to play.

We had a lot of talented players in his position and we're trying to get promoted from the Championship but he's come back a different beast.

This year, with how much he's grown and learned, if he continues to grow like that and develop, then his ceiling is so high.

But we need to make sure that the expectation stays realistic because we have a brilliant habit in this country of picking young players up and then shooting them down.

Bournemouth have a unique high-press style - how do you counteract that?

RM: It's a real contrast of beliefs on the game or whatever you want to call it, game model, all that stuff. But they're incredible what they did.

Andoni has done a brilliant job, a really, really brilliant job, but it took him some time in the same way it's taken us a bit of time to adapt and adjust.

They had a bumpy start under him, Andoni, and then they've been brilliant ever since. They've not looked back and they've just kept building on it and building on it.

They have real clarity, which gives them so much strength, and they've recruited really well. We have to go there and try and bring the game that we want.

It is two very different styles and two very different teams. What they'll be looking for from the game is probably very different to what we'll be looking for.

We have to adapt and we have to adjust and be ready for what's to come but I think it's going to be a really interesting game.

We need to try and control as much of it as we possibly can, which is not easy against Bournemouth. Not easy at all. I'm looking forward to it.

They failed to win the first nine last season - could patience pay off in the same way here?

RM: They had their most successful season after not winning for nine games, whatever it was. I hope we don't have to wait that long.

But I'm pretty sure during that period their coaching staff and their manager would have felt that they were on the right path in the same way that we do.

They would have adapted and evolved and they've adapted again this season and really become even more the team he probably wants them to be when we're watching them.

We're adapting. We're learning. We're trying to be flexible and adjust whilst maintaining what we want to be in the same way that they did last season.

We've looked at that as a coaching staff and a team behind the team in terms of that and what made it tick for them.

And it was a win. It just catapulted them after that. It just gave everyone a bit more confidence, a bit more belief.

But they were so close before that in the way that we probably feel right now and now we have to convert that into results. An incredible job they've done.

What have you learned about the Bournemouth-Southampton neighbourhood rivalry?

RM: Not very much. Apart from I got lost in New Forest on a run with Rhys Owen, the fitness coach, and we bumped into a Saints fan and a Bournemouth fan.

They had a little bit of a laugh and a joke with us. I think it's a local game. The fans will be desperate for us to go down there and put in a performance.

But not just because of the locality of the team we're playing against, but because we want to win and we need to win.

I haven't been given any extra motivation by anyone here. I haven't placed any extra onus on the game because of that. We will treat it in the same way we would any other game.

Southampton have got a good record there. Four clean sheets in a row there. Won the last three as well. Do historical stats mean anything to you?

RM: Not one bit, no.

The home team has only won one of the last 11 of this fixture as well. Can sometimes the expectation on the home team in these games prove a bit of a burden?

RM: Honestly, I don't know. It's on Monday night football. It will be a really interesting game because of the way the two teams would approach it.

I don't think anything else placed previous games or previous results. We haven't played against each other under myself or under Andoni.

I don't see how any of it really matters. I think it's a completely different game, and as I said, it's one I'm really excited about.

Just popping back to Tyler Dibling briefly. His goal last weekend came from pressing high - can you see that might be happening across the league?

RM: Yeah, maybe the pressing is really, really good. We press really high as well. I think there's risk and reward wherever you play.

Bournemouth press extremely high and if you get it right against them, they can leave big space. Their manager decides that the risk of that.

The reward of that far outweighs the risk in the same way we decide that playing out and trying to attract opponents close to our goal to then play through them.

The reward far outweighs the risk, which has been proven so far in our managerial journey. There's been too many mistakes early on in the season for us.

Other teams I can't comment on. I don't do their work every day. I don't see the work they do. I only see the games. 

I think a lot of it is down to athletic prowess and the press and how athletic people are, how powerful they are, how much they believe in it, how much work they do.

But also I think by the end of the season it probably balances out a little bit and people will find stats that will justify or validate whatever they want to really at some point.

Three players over 30 came in on Saturday, how much did their experience help?

RM: It helped a lot. I think when Adam Lallana goes off it was a very different game for us and we meant. Ryan Fraser as well. They went off at the same time.

They weren't ready to play more than 60 minutes. The decision is obviously to have them on to help us get in front and to control the game as much as possible.

But then you miss their know-how and experience, especially late on in the game like that when you're trying to hang on to a lead.

I think we have a nice balance. Jack would be the other one, obviously, but he's suspended at the moment. But we have a really nice balance of experience and use.

The only way the young players are going to learn is through moments like that and especially through moments of pain so it will be good for them in the long term.

It's not good for us right now, but it will be really good for them, and also just being around them guys every day, the young ones.

How much they learn from them, how much they get from them because they're three top professionals and the way they train, the way they attack everything is incredible.

We are really blessed actually that our experienced players are really good examples and good cultural architects for the rest of the group.

Lallana has seemed really keen to mentor Dibling, how much does that help?

RM: I think it was part of the reason of bringing Adam in. It was a big part of that, not just on the pitch but off the pitch.

Having someone who's aligned in terms of his vision of the game and his values as a person, being really demanding with the young guys on the training pitch.

Also making sure they understand it's because he cares about them and he wants them to be the best version of themselves they can possibly be.

He's been fantastic on that front. So the guys get it from all fronts from us as a group of coaching staff and now Adam as well.

He is relentless on the training pitch in terms of when he trains, he's there properly and he's very, very demanding.

He's probably the only guy I know that's more moaning than me on the training pitch but in a much better way than I was. When he talks, they listen.

Happy with the Carabao Cup fourth round draw at home to Stoke City?

RM: It'll be a tough game. They're under a new manager now and they will be really up for it, I'm sure and desperately trying to bring his vision of the game onto the pitch.

Especially by then, they'd had a good few weeks of work and a bit more. But yeah, we were hoping for a home tie.

It's been two long journeys in the cup so to get a home one was nice and now we have to make it really count.

The more games the better for our squad right now because we have a lot of guys that are not even on the bench on a Saturday.

That is the hardest part of it right now and they're top players. Some of them have been brilliant for us and played such a big part in getting us here.

To leave them out of the squad is not easy so the more opportunity we can get for them to be on the pitch including friendly games here and games against each other to keep everyone ready then the better for us.