Mauricio Pellegrino insists he is feeling no added pressure to deliver a successful Premier League campaign despite having already exited one domestic cup competition.

Defeat to Wolves in the League Cup has left Saints with only top flight matches and the FA Cup to focus on for the vast majority of the season.

After the midweek loss at St Mary’s in a competition in which Saints reached the final last season, Pellegrino insisted the positive was that his team would have more time to prepare for Premier League fixtures.

Despite that, he is not feeling greater pressure to deliver in them, insisting he is always under the spotlight.

“The pressure is at the same level with a good job. It’s included in the package,” he said. “We are under pressure every single day, we are always on the limit. It’s our life.

“We got the ambition to get better and improve the squad at different levels. We have to survive with this.”

He continued: “My pressure every day is to be better. When you do everything in your job and after this I am quiet and calm because when you try to be a better manager every single day, try to give my best for the players. This is everything, there is no more.

“It’s part of my job. We need result every time and right now in those moments, in our life, we need everything immediately.

“We need quick results, we need everything perfect. We need to be successful. We need to be quickly better than the others. But we have to think about where we are in the competition. At the end it’s a game.

“When you’re part of a game, you can win, lose and draw.”

Saints will look to recover from their Wolves loss this afternoon when they take on Huddersfield at the John Smith’s Stadium.

Pellegrino is hoping for a return to the form that saw Saints defeat West Ham in their previous game.

“I think we will continue in the same way that we had been playing the first two Premier League games,” he insisted.

“I think we have to use this game as a reference for us because I think we deserved to win those two games and it’s not easy.

“We have been playing on good performance and keeping going, try to learn from Wednesday.

“At the top level today when you are not focussed for five minutes or ten minutes and when you leave some details aside it is really difficult to win games and we have to know that.”

Pellegrino is determined to use the Wolves defeat as a learning experience and added: “The conclusion for us is we have to learn for every single step, for every single game.

“Obviously we want to bounce back. We know that we have a difficult game Saturday away against a tough team.

“We can draw some conclusions from every single experience.

“Obviously we are not happy with the result yesterday, the only positive thing for the future is we have more time to prepare better the Premier League games.

“Hopefully we can change. We need to react on Saturday to show another face.”