Hughes urges 'Saints' to be more clinical

Southampton have dropped to 16th in the Premier League, having not scored a single goal in their last three games. 

Hughes is happy with the amount of chances his side are creating, but insists his strikers need to be more clinical when finishing them. 

He remarked: "Clearly the end game is getting the ball in the back of the net and that's what wins you games, it goes without saying. 

"The last three games have been Liverpool away, Chelsea at home and Wolves who are difficult because they are on a crest of confidence after coming up into the new league and doing really well.

"So they are all difficult fixtures and you have to factor that in and in all those games we have created chances.

"It's not as though we not getting shots off. I think if you look at the amount of shots we've had in the season to date it's up there with everybody.

"It's just our conversion rate we need to increase. If we do that and we convert more of the chances we create and the shots we take we will score more goals and win more games.

"We need to overcome the little bit of anxiety we've got in our play at times in key moments but for the most part as the season progresses we'll get more than enough points on the board," he added.

"I'm confident in the group we've got here. Having done this for a long time I understand clearly the group that I've got and their potential so I feel very confident we'll start getting maximum points very, very quickly."

Southampton travel to Bournemouth on Saturday and will hope to get back to winning ways.