Every word Southampton manager Martin said after Wolves loss

You must be absolutely furious at two decisions that have gone against you?

RM: I think we should do more with the ball, to come here and have as much of the ball as we did in their final third.

We have a lot of it. In their half, a lot of it. It's not easy and we shouldn't take it for granted, the lads do great with that.

If I said before the game we'd limit them to eight shots and have that much of the ball around their final third, I'd expect us to have something to show for it.

We should and that's not good enough. We don't create enough. I think we give away a really sloppy goal at the start, we have three chances to regain control.

It's individual errors and then we're made to pay for it - but we responded really well and actually at 1-0 it got a bit edgy here. 

The crowd were getting a bit frustrated watching their team not have much of the ball so I really liked the response.

We played good football but then it needs to be more, but they're defending with a lot of bodies because they have something to hang on to.

The decision is a really tough one. I just heard Gary O'Neil when I walked past him and he said it's a blatant foul - I just don't see it that way. 

It's subjective. But my point is, if you really understand the game, the ball is the other side of Semedo and he moves his leg the wrong way away from the ball.

He's not tried to play the ball. And then Mateus runs into him. So actually, if he's not making an effort to play the ball, I think it's really clever of him.

I think then you need to have an understanding of why he's moved that way. You could probably argue that his movement is away from the ball, maybe it's a penalty.

So that was our feeling about it. Gaz will of course disagree, there'll be other people who disagree. Maybe people will see it our way. 

But it's not like sour grapes. That's my interpretation. If it was my defender who'd done that, I'd say really well managed that situation, you bought a foul. 

Really good. But then when you have the hindsight and the benefit of watching it back on slow motion, my question would be, why is he moving his leg that way?

Because he can see the player coming so he wants contact, he wants a foul. If he makes a play for the ball and Matty fouls him then no problem.

But I have a problem with the understanding of why he does what he does. But it is what it is, we don't lose because of that, although it is a big decision.

And the second goal is a foul on Cam Archer. Slow it down. When you sit in Stockley Park, you have the benefit of pausing it and watching it at loads of angles.

His shirt's nearly off his back from Dawson but it is what it is. We should do more with the ball. We limit them to very little, they limit us to little.

Goals change games and moments change games, and the only thing I'm disappointed with today is we don't create more. 

Our response to the second goal and the decisions at that point, for 10 or 15 minutes, I just felt the whole game changed a little bit and then we wrestled it back.

Tyler Dibling came on and took the ball under big pressure. Paul Onuachu wants to fight and gave us a bit more but we didn't have enough to show for it.

Did any of the officials explain the decisions to you?

RM: No, no, no. But also I don't want to moan about it, it's pointless. I had a chat with people after playing against Leicester.

Paul Onuachu having his shirt held for six yards or whatever it was. We disagree and we'll disagree on this, I'm sure.

You lost Flynn Downes in the hour leading up to kick-off, how big a blow?

RM: It's a big loss for us. We lose so much physicality and running power. He's amazing in transition, which is Wolves' biggest strength.

It's a big loss for us before the game. He hit a shot yesterday and felt something in his knee and then wanted to give it a go, such is his character.

He just didn't feel right in the warm-up so we'll scan that and hopefully, we'll have good news and it won't be too long.

Does the fact he was close to playing suggest he should be okay?

RM: Yeah, I think so. He said to us he felt a bit 50-50 yesterday, he felt a bit better today, but he just felt he couldn't do what he wanted to do.

You could see him in the warm-up, grimacing a little bit. So he tried, such as his character, and I know that if he could play he would have.

For all of your possession, you only had one shot on target - how did that happen?

RM: Yeah, it's not enough. We defended against such numbers and I'll guarantee I'll get asked a question about the style of play today.

We can't just turn up and fight. The club is not built on that, the team is not built on that, we haven't recruited to do that, we haven't got the physicality to do that.

When you see the moments of transition today, it's not really our forte. The team builds up to get to the final third.

We've got to structure and put people in positions where they can do their stuff. Unless Tyler's on we probably haven't got a one versus one specialist.

So there's a balance to be had. Ryan Fraser is still not fit and he gives us something where he can really cross the ball and take people on. 

We have to try and do it in a different way and we get in their box a lot as well in the first half, it just doesn't come to enough.

Ryan Manning was playing well but came off at half-time, what was the thinking?

RM: I think at that point it is harsh on Rhino, but we're trying to keep Adam Armstrong on because he has goals in him, he runs the goal.

Tyler, we just felt we needed someone to unlock a little bit and give us something. And we wanted to keep three centre-halves on the pitch for set plays.

We felt we could be a real threat and we should have scored one with Taylor Harwood-Bellis inside the first half today.

Will increased speculation over your job feel cruel given today's circumstances?

RM: Nah, it's what it is. It'll be what it'll be. We work as hard as we can, with as much care and love as we can and commitment to the players. 

So the rest is really out of my control, so I don't sweat it and I don't focus on it. Hopefully, I'll be able to talk to you in two weeks. If I'm not, we'll see.

How is Nathan Wood progressing after coming on to the bench quite late on?

RM: He's not happy not playing. Woody and I obviously have a good relationship, I've worked with him for quite a while now and it's not always been easy for him.

He trains like a beast and I always say to him, frustration, come and speak to me in the office and show it, but on the pitch, you need to be at 100 per cent.

He's not far away. He's a really talented young player, we have a lot of them and he deserved to be the next one on the bench today.

How do you help to make decisions more quickly in the final third?

RM: I think at 0-0 they'll probably make different decisions. I think they'll have a bit more conviction and a bit more aggression.

It's up to us to get the team there. The team, the structure of the team gets them there and their bravery on the ball gets them there. 

But at the minute the balance is the guys at the back take all the risk and the courage, or the perceived risk and show all the courage.

The guys at the front have to do a bit more and it's our job to free them up somehow and to give them more moments where they are one versus one.

We did have so many good moments in the first half and it just doesn't come to enough so I think a coach's job is to find a problem and find a solution.

We had a few problems in build-up early on in the season but the lads have come through that brilliantly the way they play through people. 

Now we have problems in the final third - scoring goals last season wasn't a problem - so maybe less focus now on build-up and more in the final third for sure.

No other team in the bottom of the league gets to the final third as much as us. Objectively as well as subjectively. So we have to do more with it, of course we do.

What is missing? What can you do as you won't change philosophy? 

RM: It probably makes it more frustrating sometimes that we're close. I think we don't possess the athleticism that other teams do. 

We have to find a different way of doing it and we will. Every team we've had has looked similar but we've had to find a different way.

At MK Dons we had two really big, strong, powerful centre forwards so we played two strikers and found a way to score a lot of goals.

Swansea we didn't have any wingers so we had to play defenders there or midfielders. We found a way to score a lot of goals. 

Last season we had so much attacking power for the Championship we scored a lot of goals and found a way to stay there and sustain for a long period of time.

Now the guys are doing things that we were told we couldn't in terms of having so much of the ball in the Premier League and having so much in the final third.

But there has to be the same mentality there was last year that you can go and really hurt someone and make things happen. 

Fundamentally whichever style of play you have, the game is about beating and dominating your opponent and we don't do that quite enough yet.

In terms of individual battles and duels, I think we just have to take it a bit more personally, myself included.

Do you work harder to put it right after a result like this? 

RM: I don't think we can work any harder because then we'd be mad and we wouldn't sleep and we'd make really crazy decisions. 

I think it's about working smarter and prioritising some stuff over the next couple of weeks. I think the lads, after the start of the season... 

We had a period where we sort of lost the essence of who we were a little bit and the game became a bit more transitional.

This meant we maybe had a couple more chances but also we didn't spend anywhere near as long with the ball and the game looked way too open.

We've gone back in the last few weeks with players showing real courage to try and dominate the ball and move the opposition.

But we can't give people a two-goal lead like we do today, so the longer the game goes on, at 1-0 maybe we have a chance to really sustain some pressure.

So as much as we talk about with the ball, we have to stop conceding really crap goals like we did today in the first one.

Do you need to sign some more rough-and-tumble players?

RM: No, I'm talking about like real top-end speed. Unless you're Man City and you can go and buy whoever you want, you have to give up something.

You have to prioritise something and we have prioritised going after people that can handle the football, so you have to handle it even better.

In the moments you really have a chance to do what you can in the final third, you have to do it. So I think it's my job to help the guys free up in the final third.

We need to do that in the same way they do in the build-up because they're incredible at that. We have to try and find a way now in the top end of the pitch. 

How positive is Taylor Harwood-Bellis going off with the England side?

RM: I think it's going to be great for him. He's in the England squad because of the way we play.  He wouldn't be in there if we just banked up and defended.

I think it's brilliant for him and a brilliant opportunity for him to go and show what he's got.

I think it would be great for him and it would be great for us. I'm really looking forward to getting him back and I hope he gets on the pitch.

What about Tyler Dibling in the under-21s squad?

RM: We have a lot of good players but he's incredible. The way he receives the ball under pressure, what he can do with the ball at top speed. 

We need to let Tyler be Tyler and it will be interesting to see how he responds to being in a different environment with different players.

The biggest challenge for him will be to go and be himself and to express himself and if he does, for me he's one of the best young players in the country.

He's the best player I've seen for a long, long time - but you let us crack on with developing him and keeping him in a good place and hungry.

What did you think of his determination to keep going against Wolves?

RM:  He has an amazing mentality, amazing mentality. And for an 18-year-old, he sets an example in a lot of ways because of the talent he has.

How much he backs himself and the confidence he has in a really nice, humble way, he's improving all the time with the other side of the game.

He needs time, he's 18, there are going to be some bumps. His performance dropped a little bit and we had a chat about this in local press conferences.

We have been managing him and his minutes, which we will, but we'll enjoy having him whilst we've got him.