Mauricio Pellegrino admits he is experiencing the toughest moment of his career, but insists he is not worried about his future.

The Saints manager has come under increasing pressure after a run of ten Premier League games without a victory.

Saints aim to end that streak when they take on Tottenham at St Mary’s tomorrow, but are up against it facing an in-form team that hammered them 5-2 just a few weeks ago.

Pellegrino said: “Yes for sure (this is toughest part of my career), I expect always that my challenging moment, or my most important moment, hopefully will come.

“For this reason I am not worried about my job.

“I am worried about a lot of things, but not my job.

“You have to work and be ready to compete against everyone.”

He added: “I am not worried about my job, in the future.

“Even in difficult situations I enjoy my job.

“Obviously I am happier when the fans are proud of the team.

“But in football, in sport, if you don't want to be in difficult situations, don't play the game, stay at home and don't play the game.

“I want to play the game, even given the consequences.

“If you play the game in difficult situations, and move forward, you will be stronger.

“We are building something not just for the next two games, it's for the future.

“I feel I am growing, and I am learning too.”

Pellegrino has noted the difference between first and second half Saints showings of late, and is trying to rectify the issues.

“I think we have to learn from this moment,” he admitted.

“Obviously we have to control better this type of moment, especially when the opponent plays long and direct and tries to put you under pressure.

“It’s normal when you don’t have the level of your confidence really high, maybe you want to save the result and you don’t take the responsibility or you forget what we are doing in the recent games to keep playing the same way.

“The values are really important, even more so in a difficult situation.

“Against Palace, against Fulham, it was more or less the same. We play really well in the first half and in the second half because we were worried to keep the results we didn’t do it.

“It’s part of the transition and we need to win to move to another level.”

Maya Yoshida is touch and go to recover from a hamstring strain to face Spurs, but Pellegrino is trying his best to prepare his players for what lies ahead.

“To give them tools and work on how we can approach this moment,” he explained of his role.

“Sometimes the opponent is better than you, but you have to be ready for this moment and how we can solve this situation.

“For example without Charlie we don’t have this big player and you can’t put a long ball and create problems. We have to put the ball on the ground and try to create more difficult action.

“It’s part of our quality and I trust if we improve this ten per cent in every single game little by little the belief will come back.”