Hughes thinks Southampton deserved more against Wolves

Southampton fell to a 2-0 defeat at Molineux on Saturday, however 'Saints' manager Mark Hughes believes that his side deserved more from the game. 

"For long periods we were in control of the game, we had good possession and were asking questions of a good Wolves team, who've started their Premier League campaign at a good level and caused a lot of good teams problems," Hughes told 'Sky Sports'.

"Whenever they had a bit of momentum in the game, I thought we nipped that in the bud and, for the most part, certainly from 50 minutes until their opening goal, we were the team looking most likely to score.

"Unfortunately, we were the ones who conceded, poorly in my view, we had a couple of occasions where we could have done better in one v one situations out wide when the opposition player didn't have a great deal of room to operate but still has been able to get away from our player and get a ball across the box.

"As a consequence, we've lost two goals. It's a difficult one to take because we had more possession, we've had more shots on goal, we haven't just come here and waited for Wolves to pick us off, we've played a huge part in a decent game but in the end they have the rewards for their efforts and we haven't."

One of Southampton's major problems was their inability to finish off chances which they'd created. 

"We're honest enough to understand that we have to have a little bit more devilment, in both boxes," the former Manchester City manager said.

"When balls are bouncing in the opposition box, sometimes you've got to make your own luck and get on the end of things, be aggressive and throw yourself at things to try and make things happen. That applies in both boxes and unfortunately, at the moment, that little bit of luck isn't going our way, things aren't quite dropping for us.

"I felt sure that if we'd scored the opening goal, it would have been very difficult for Wolves and we might have been in the situation where we could pick them off and get a second one.

"As it was, 2-0 is quite unkind to us because I didn't think Wolves had done enough to have the margin of victory that they had but in the end, we haven't been able to capitalise when we were in the ascendancy."