Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl says final season’s journey to Wembley has whetted his urge for food for an additional FA Cup run.
Saints suffered semi-final heartbreak by the hands of eventual winners Leicester in April after defeating Shrewsbury Arsenal, Wolves and Bournemouth en path to the nationwide stadium.
The south-coast membership start this season’s cup marketing campaign with a third-round journey to Championship aspect Swansea and Hasenhuttl has ambitions of mounting one other severe problem for silverware.
“We undoubtedly need to go as robust as potential for the cup,” mentioned the Austrian, whose workforce had been overwhelmed 1-0 by the Foxes final time period. “It’s at all times a giant alternative.
“The expertise we had final season within the semi-final at Wembley was implausible for us as gamers, even not with a full crowd.
“It makes you need to do it once more. We need to go there once more.
“I feel it’s getting harder yearly as a result of the large groups take it extra significantly as a result of a title is a title.
“The massive groups have way more strain to win trophies than we’ve so it’s getting a lot more durable yearly, however it’s at all times potential.
“We’ve proven final season that we made the semi-final and it was not up to now to go on to win one thing.
“It’s the shortest method to get a title, to be a winner.”
Southampton, FA Cup winners in 1976, are lacking seven gamers for Saturday’s journey to south Wales.
Che Adams, Kyle Walker-Peters and teenager Thierry Small have been dominated out by constructive coronavirus assessments, whereas Tino Livramento (knee) and Will Smallbone (calf) are injured and Mohammed Salisu is banned.
Mali winger Moussa Djenepo is on worldwide obligation on the Africa Cup of Nations.
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