ORIOL Romeu admitted that Saints’ “amazing” support inspired their Wembley comeback.

The 32,000-strong following from the south coast gave Saints terrific support from first minute to last during a breathtaking EFL Cup final.

Midfielder Romeu insists they were the inspiration behind Saints’ comeback from 2-0 down to 2-2 against Manchester United.
 
After the gut-wrenching 3-2 defeat, he said: “I’ve never seen that support before, they helped us come back. We have to be very grateful to them, that comeback was because of them.

“The goal disallowed is something that happened, we all make mistakes and after that we had tough moments.

“That makes a massive difference in the game but the team responded amazingly.

“It was a great comeback. Scoring before half-time was the right moment to get one back and then we got another good goal.

“It should have been a massive difference, we were so close to winning a title only to lose in last few minutes of the game.”

Saints are next in action at Watford on Saturday.

“We have a week to come back,” said Romeu. “If we look into the game the team has played amazingly.

“The way we did our jobs we can’t say anything bad about how we played and came back into the game.

“We were so close to winning.”

Romeu agrees that Manolo Gabbiadini has given Saints a different dimension since his arrival.

“Manolo’s been amazing, as a teammate of his we just want to make him happy and help him play that way and keep scoring goals.

“To be fair not many had seen him play before but he’s been very good. Every time he has a chance he puts the ball in and that’s what we want.”

Nathan Redmond admitted he was ‘heartbroken’.

The Saints star said: "I'm heartbroken, the boys played terrific. I haven’t got the words to sum it up, it’s just heartbreaking.

"We started well obviously the goal got disallowed but we felt comfortable as a team.

"It’s just disappointing. The fans were fantastic we couldn’t wish for a better set of fans.

“Thankyou to them on behalf of everyone in the dressing room. They’ve got us through the competition and today.”