Southampton man admits it is 'hard to see' injured teammates

Both Gavin Bazunu and Stuart Armstrong saw their seasons ended early due to injuries within days of each other.

Bazunu is set to miss up to nine or 10 months with a ruptured Achilles, while we wait for a further update on the status of Armstrong.

Aribo, who netted the Saints goal in a 2-1 defeat at Cardiff to all but end their automatic promotion hopes, reflected on the blows.  

He told the Daily Echo: "It's not good to see anyone, even if it was their player. It's just very frustrating and it's hard to see them upset.

Stuart Armstrong left the pitch on a stretcher (Image: PA)

"With Gav, it's another one that's bad. You don't want players to be out.

"Especially at a time in the season like this, it's difficult to see players going down and having bad injuries like that.

"We have to dust ourselves down and move on to the next game. That's the first thing that Gaffer said to us, we can't be thinking about what's gone. 

"We can't change it now. We've got to look forward to Tuesday because it's a massive game again on Tuesday.

"We know Leicester will be very good. The manager will have a game plan for us to get the result that we're looking for, and that's what we aim to do.

"I think for us, we want to win every game we play, so nothing changes. That's what we want to do and that's what we have to do." 

Aribo admitted the frustration of the dressing room after defeat in the Welsh capital, on an afternoon of chances. 

Despite Aribo's fourth goal of the season, the result leaves Saints five points off the top two with only three games left to play. 

The Nigerian international added: "The boys are very frustrated. It's a tough one to take with how it's happened.

"They scored so late on and then seeing players go down injured. It's very frustrating. If we didn't play well and lost the game, then it's like, okay.

"But we missed a lot of chances. We weren't ruthless and clinical. But it happens, it's football."