'Second half could have been better' - Eckert

Southampton head coach Tonda Eckert praised his team's first-half display but called for greater resilience at set-pieces after their narrow FA Cup win at Doncaster Rovers.

"The FA Cup is a very special tournament, and never an easy one, because you have nothing to lose when you go down, so I'm very pleased we're in the next round," he told BBC Radio Solent.

"In the end, there were some patterns we have seen all season. We need to make sure we improve our resilience on set plays.

"It was a very good first-half. The second-half could have been better, but we're in the next round.

"We have a good squad but we have seen that flow in a game before, even at 3-0 up at half-time, we have conceded off a corner and [start] suffering.

On Daniel Peretz: "It's not so easy when you come in after a couple of training sessions with new colleagues and have to learn their names and ways of defending but he had an excellent game, a very promising start."