ORIOL Romeu has given some insight in to Mauricio Pellegrino’s attacking ambitions for his Saints team.

In Pellegrino’s first two games in charge, it has been obvious that Saints are willing to be far more expansive than they were under Claude Puel.

The Argentine is keen for Saints to press and it’s something that the team are starting to adapt to.

“We need to try to play with higher tempo,” Romeu said. “We tend to play too slow and then there’s no space between the lines to break the opponents.

“That’s what we’re trying to do now and we’re trying to regain the ball high up.

“We try and push as soon as we lose the ball and win the ball back high up the pitch and then try and close the opponents in their own half.

“We know it’s difficult, almost all teams are try to do the same.

“Here in this league the counter attacking can be very dangerous, but we’re getting there.”

Romeu believes that Pellegrino’s Saints will keep pushing until the very last moment in every single game.

“Every game brings different situations and today we have adapted,” he said, referring to the 3-2 win over West Ham on Saturday.

“First of all, we put ourselves 2-0 up, but didn’t deal well enough with the situation.

“After conceding, we adapted, kept pushing and playing forward and eventually we scored.

“Sometimes you score in the last minute, sometimes you don’t, but the team at least pushed until the end.

“And as I said we’re not prepared to go 0-0 or 1-1, hopefully we will win every game 4-0 or 5-0 but that’s not what we’re doing so we always need to keep pushing until the last minute.”

The West Ham game ended a club-record six games without a home goal.

And, ahead of tomorrow night’s League Cup third round game against Championship side Wolves, Romeu wants more strikes.

“We wanted to score goals and be strong in our stadium,” he said. “We have to score goals to win games, so it was good to score three goals.

“It wasn’t good to concede but I’m relieved we’ve scored and now we need to keep going making those chances.”