Mark Hughes has told Saints to put their Wembley disappointment behind them and focus on beating Bournemouth in a game he says they “need to win” in order to survive.

Saints were beaten 2-0 by Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final with Hughes angry over crucial refereeing decisions that went against his side.

However, he now wants to move on and concentrate on a south coast derby at St Mary’s on Saturday which will play a vital role in whether Saints retain their Premier League status.

He said: “I thought our response after going behind after losing the opening goal in the first few seconds of the second half was good.

“We needed a little bit of luck. We had good moments and Shane Long miscontrolled in a key moment when he would have felt he should have scored. We hit the post and the goalkeeper’s made a save from Nathan Redmond he didn’t seem to know a lot about which could have gone in the back of the net.

“Those moments seemed to go for Chelsea but at the end of the day it wasn’t to be and we came up a little bit short.

“We have disappointment because we haven’t progressed in the competition but we have to put it behind us very quickly because we have a huge game next weekend against Bournemouth at home where we need to win.

“It’s quite clear from our point of view, there are no grey areas, it’s black and white we need to win.”

Hughes thinks that Saints may well be playing a lesser side than they have recently, and that could help their cause.

“We have had fixtures against really good quality teams of late,” he admitted.

“We have played Chelsea twice, we have played Leicester away, we played Arsenal. They’ve been really big games that will always test us.

“It’s not disrespectful to the teams we will face in the next three or four games but maybe the quality will not be as high.

“If we can acquit ourselves as well as we have in these recent games I think we get the points we need.”

Hughes started the game against Chelsea with two strikers, but Saints really struggled to use them well, leaving plenty of food for thought ahead of welcoming the Cherries.

“We just needed to try and feed them a little bit further up,” he reflected.

“We were hitting balls from back to front which wasn’t what we’d talked about because we wanted to play through midfield and release them through more central areas.

“I thought second half we were better.

“Obviously Nathan Redmond and Dusan Tadic came on and gave us a bit of craft between the lines and I think that helped us.

“I needed to know whether or not that’s a viable option for us.

“I think it’s got its merits and there will be times when I think it’s the right way to go.

“Perhaps on occasions we didn’t play it as well as we should have done but it’s another option which we may need.”