MAURICIO Pellegrino is feeling the weight of responsibility over the direction of his struggling Saints team – but is working hard and believes they are “on the right track”.

Saints slumped to a 1-0 defeat at home to Burnley at the weekend and  have now picked up five points from their last six games.

They sit four points off the bottom three with a very difficult run ahead, with six of the big teams in the next ten matches.

“I feel the responsibility because my job we’ve got a lot of people to be in charge of and I feel responsibility for my players,” Pellegrino said, whose team were booed off at St Mary’s after the Clarets loss.

“I am responsible in the way we are playing and the way we are training, our dynamics – the way we are performing.

“But we cannot control the results, it’s something that comes in the game. It’s football.”

The 46-year-old boss believes Saints have deserved more from their opening 11 games of the Premier League campaign and still is sure that the wins will start to flow.

“I think our results have been irregular. When you think four or five games we deserved a little bit more,” he said.

“We’ve played better than the points we have in the table. When we think about Burnley, Swansea, Stoke or Manchester United, we deserved more.

“Two or three points is massive because there are ten or 12 teams that are within three points. More or less at the end of last season between 8th and 17th there was six points.

“We are talking about two games between ten or 12 teams.

“But I think we’re on the right track.”

Already this season managers Ronald Koeman (Everton), Frank De Boer (Crystal Palace) and now Slaven Bilic (West Ham) have lost their jobs in the Premier League.

But Pellegrino is only feeling the normal pressures of football and is only focused on turning Saints' fortunes around.

“The pressure in our job is to work in football,” he said. “The risk is to work in football.

“It’s the same when you’re driving on the motorway. You’ve got to take the same risk, everything is a risk.

“But I enjoy my profession and I know the results are part of our job because the only thing I’ve done in my life is to play football and to work in football.

“From ten years old I felt this feeling.

“When you win you have to continue winning, when you lose you have to continue to keep on working to win again.”

“But it’s our job.”

Pellegrino was speaking at a media day at Staplewood organised by the club's main sponsor, Virgin Media.