Southampton‘s style of play is frustrating.

We saw what happened to Burnley last season when they were too stubborn to adapt and change from playing out from the back and there is a naivety in that. Southampton have come up with the same issue.

Russell Martin doesn’t ever want to change his style of play and you could see that in the Championship last season. He does not adapt, even when they were conceding goals from the back early on in the previous campaign.

I don’t think he will change and I think that will be a problem for the Saints.

At the other end of the pitch they don’t have the cutting edge to be affording the mistakes in conceding. They were heavily reliant on Adam Armstrong last season, but he isn’t a proven goal scorer in the Premier League despite having played for them for one season in the top-flight.

Fans like to watch attractive football, whether that comes with results or not, but the game is about getting results. Once you start to lose games it is very difficult to get that momentum back and trust within what you are doing.

Dominating possession does not win you games and that is something Martin has to look at. It will be a difficult season for them if they don’t take on other styles or ways of playing. But that work should have been done in pre-season and not when the games come so quickly.

The fans will be buzzing that they are back in the Premier League but now it is about staying up. And for them to do that, they have to find alternative ways of playing to get results.

Fara Williams was speaking to BBC Sport’s Katie Stafford