Every word Southampton manager Martin said after Liverpool

Does it feel like you've done everything but win points again?

RM: Yeah, I think that's my overriding feeling at the minute. It's the frustration and disappointment at the goals we concede.

It's just so poor. We're playing against a team with such quality and if they produce a moment of magic or score a brilliant team goal, you can accept it a bit more.

The quality of the goals we concede is so bad. I felt so much that I enjoyed the performance, we looked a threat and much better than we did at Wolves.

We defended well with big numbers a lot of the time playing against the best team in the league, limiting them to a lot of shots from outside the box.

I asked the guys to play quickly as much as we could but then it was the wrong time to do that because Liverpool had so many players in our final third.

We need to take the sting out of the game but that's on me. I've asked them to do that and I need to make it even clearer when and where to do that.

Panic sets in, we mishit a clearance and it probably should go off the pitch at that point. The second goal is a thing we spoke about a lot.

About protecting the space with Salah, and the lads did really well on the whole. Obviously, Al McCarthy hasn't played a lot of games at the moment.

I thought he made some really good saves and did some really good stuff. And then the third goal, Yuki Sugawara, bless him... 

I don't think he moves his arm towards the ball, but his arm's in a position where it hits his body. We can talk all day about the goals.

We had some really good moments and most of them come from playing and taking the ball and having courage. The lads just have to keep going.

Is it tough to keep going when the same things keep happening?

RM: Yeah, we have such a young team on the pitch, on the whole, we have a team that's growing and learning.

The only way they are going to learn is by having moments like that and trying to get through it and understand why they make the decisions they make.

I ask them to play quickly, so I take responsibility for that. The rest is like, just isolated moments, aren't they?

We should make more of some of the stuff that we have but it's not like a lack of competing or a lack of desire, a lack of willingness to run for each other.

I think the players who were here in the Premier League last time felt very differently about the feeling of this now.

After the game today, after Man City away, Arsenal away, the guys feel they are so close - but we have to eradicate those moments to give ourselves any chance.

Can you talk us through your system and personnel selection?

RM: Flynn's played there in defence for us at Swansea a bit. He ends up building up there a lot as well and he has real pace to defend the transition.

Against Salah when there was going to be space behind and Gatpo on the other side, I thought he actually did quite well on the whole.

He mishits one clearance and he gets punished in the Premier League so I'm sure that will get looked at, that decision, but I thought he played really well.

He stepped forward with the ball a few times and read the game really well and also it's about relationships. We spoke about this a lot.

He, Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Jack Stephens have played together a lot. Usually, he's in front of them but they've played together a lot.

Wee Man (Ryan Fraser) gives us an attacking threat. He actually swapped sides in the game and I think it helped us. Kyle went on the left and he went right.

They give us that flexibility and Yuki's been away on international duty and travelled a lot. Then he came back and trained one day with us.

In a different shape, to chuck him in and after one day's training would have been a bit unfair. We tried to have as many attackers on the pitch as we could.

Do you feel you should have had a penalty and a chance to go 3-1 up?

RM: We should have, 100 per cent. We should have had a penalty on Adam Armstrong. I'm sure I'll have a.. well, I think it's pointless having another chat.

I really like Howard Webb but I don't know what they will say. It's gone to VAR for a check. The goalkeeper comes out and it's at 2-1 at that point.

Adam Armstrong is trying to play the ball with a goal. He comes out and misses the ball and then affects Arma's run so he makes contact with Adam.

I think at that point it's a foul regardless of what defenders are around. He makes contact and misses the ball. By my definition of the law as a footballer, that's a foul.

It gets given as a handball against Arma after the foul. Connor Bradley's pulling Arma, Arma's pulling him a bit. That's six to one, half a dozen to the other.

But Kelleher misses the ball. It's the other side of him when he makes contact with Arma's legs. My understanding of the game is that's a penalty.

Paul Onauchu a real positive coming into the team?

RM: He's probably deserved to start before now. The way he's trained, he's been so good. And he was really good.

I hope his injury is nothing too serious. It's just a bit of fatigue, but I thought he played really, really well.

How is Adam Lallana after he came off early? 

RM: I think his injury will be a bit worse than Paul's so we'll have to assess that. He's a bit worried about it.

Yeah, to lose Janny Bednarek and Aaron Ramsdale and then Paul and Adam as well on the pitch is frustrating.

No team has ever survived from your position, can you break records? 

RM: The team broke all sorts of records last year so we're going to have to do it again.

Are you worried the team can't replicate performances against your direct rivals?

RM: I think we have to. The game's different sometimes when we play against other teams and we're trying to attack a low block as we did at Wolves.

Every game in the Premier League looks different because the opposition you're facing tactically looks different.

We have another one to prepare for on Friday now, which is exciting for us away from home. The players just have to keep giving us what they're giving us.

We're so close. We're so competitive and the season has been defined by really critical moments. We could be in such a different position.

I think that's the frustration everyone feels but we have no choice but to keep working, stick together. We knew the season was going to be tough.

It's not a surprise to anyone that we're fighting but I think it feels worse because of the goals we have conceded and the timing of some of them.

The objective hasn't changed and the players' willingness to work and run hasn't changed. So as long as they stick with that, they'll be fine.

Do you have any concerns about their confidence to keep doing what they're doing?

RM: I think they've shown moments of real confidence today against the best team in the league. My job is to try and keep them in that place.

They need to keep believing in what they're doing, keep playing with courage and feeling and not let fear overtake them - that is my job with them.

We have such a young team with some really outstanding young players who are going to play in this league and beyond for a very long time if they get it right.

Tyler Dibling and Mateus Fernandes were brilliant again weren't they?

RM: Yeah, they're really talented. I think they have to play in a certain team in a certain way right now at their age to flourish and to show what they can do.

If you put them in a different team that are fighting down the bottom, maybe they look very different or they're not playing because their skill set is not suited.

Their skill set is taking the ball and being brave, taking it in tight areas and beating their player. They're getting better and better all the time.

We have to keep working, they have an amazing mentality. They will keep growing with us or they'll outgrow the club and the club will benefit hugely from that.

How do you mitigate the mistakes the team are making?

RM:  Work and conversation. I've obviously not made it clear enough that if we've had a moment defending the final third for that long we shouldn't play. 

I've asked them to play quickly so I'll just have to clarify even further and give them even more detail, but it's also about feeling on the pitch.