ORIOL Romeu is adamant that Saints are not worried about their poor form – but admits “no one is happy” in the St Mary’s camp at the moment.

Saints have not won in three games and scraped a 2-2 draw at home to newly-promoted Newcastle United thanks to a Manolo Gabbiadini brace.

It left Saints in 10th place in the Premier League and with one home victory in six games in all competitions this campaign.

“I wouldn’t call it worried but no one is happy,” Romeu said. “We’re not happy after not winning today and losing other games at home.

“We want to win and we want to be higher. We’ll keep doing our best to get wins because to be where we want to be we need to win more games.”

Despite their indifferent displays, the Spaniard is sure that Mauricio Pellegrino’s men don’t need to change their approach.

“Before we had a problem with goals now we’ve conceded two where we shouldn’t have,” he said.

“Every game is a different story and we can’t always put each one down to the same reason.

“We have the right mentality, there’s nothing to change. There are things to get better at and to improve.”

There has been growing disquiet in regards to Saints’ performances, but Romeu doesn’t believe any part of the problem is down to their belief in Pellegrino’s philosophy.

“We have confidence in ourselves and we believe in our players and we have enough quality to win games,” he said.

“If we had the key we would find the solution but there’s so many things in football that are open and you think you can control it but suddenly a game is gone.

“It's about making sure when teams are coming here to defend we need to break them down better and score more and not let them counter attack.”

The 26-year-old was delighted to see Gabbaidni netted his second and third goals of the campaign and has urged Saints to continue to make their star Italian “feel comfortable” in front of goal.

The Italy international struck a sweet solo effort before clinically dispatching a penalty after Shane Long was fouled to make it 2-2 against the Magpies.

Romeu has also backed Long after the Republic of Ireland frontman extended his goal drought to 25 games for club and country.

“He’s a goal threat and we want him to feel comfortable to score goals because we need strikers to score,” he said of Gabbiadini.

“It’s been so good to see him score twice and be there for the team. He and Long did an amazing job.

“Long still hasn’t scored yet but the boy’s work ethic is amazing and this is the kind of striker you need to win games.”

Romeu wants Saints to keep feeding the Saints strikers “as many balls as possible”.

“They are experienced enough to manage these moments,” he said. “Manolo has played plenty of games in Italy and Long the same.

“Everyone’s got moments when they’re not scoring that much, but we have to understand that and we have to give them as many balls as possible so they will have chances to score.”