"I'm really disappointed," Potter lamented. "Conceding late again is another blow, but if we're honest, Southampton deserved their equalizer. Our performance wasn't up to par, it wasn't good enough."

"We wanted to do better," he continued. "We're frustrated, that's the truth. We thought we made a step forward against Liverpool, but today it wasn't good enough."

"We need to do more, we need to play better, we need to construct our attacks better, we need to create more chances, we need to stop giving the ball away so cheaply," Potter added.

Players Need to Step Up

Potter admitted that not enough players consistently performed over the 90 minutes.

"Lots of things that you can pick the game apart and it wasn't there, not enough players playing well and, in the end, no matter who you are in this league, you can suffer," he said.

"We don't know what we're going to get sometimes, because the Premier League offers a different challenge every game," Potter explained.

"Away at Anfield is one challenge, then home to Southampton when the onus is on you to attack, the onus is on you to control, the onus is on you to be the protagonist in the game (is another)."

"That's something that we struggle with and I think you can see that in our results at home. We're suffering here and we have to do better for our supporters because they're so important to us and we're not doing enough," he concluded.

Cheap Giveaways

On where it went wrong, Potter says there was no one root cause.

"It's a combination of things," he said.

"Like I said, if you give the ball away cheaply, you don't attack well enough, you turn the ball over, you feed their game," Potter explained.

"I think they'll (Southampton) be happy with how they played. Like I said, they deserved what they got today, for sure, so that's more a reflection on us and what we need to do better," Potter added.