The Saints conceded twice inside the opening 20 minutes at the King Power Stadium on Saturday as their winless run in the Premier League was extended to four matches.

"We didn't start good in the first 10, 20 minutes," Elia told the club's official website. "Then the whole game we have control. Sometimes they come out, but we control the game more. You know it is hard to score a goal because they have 11 men behind the ball.

"You know it is really hard if you don't start the game good. We know it in the game before, the game before that and today it happened again.

"The first thing is that maybe we are not going 100% in the duels and then we lose the duels first 20 minutes. After that we won the duels and we make the game, but we cannot create chances – only shoot from distance."

Southampton have the chance to get back to winning ways this weekend when they welcome Aston Villa to St Mary's Stadium.

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2	Leeds United Leeds	45	27	9	9	80	41	39	90
3	Ipswich Town Ipswich	44	26	12	6	88	56	32	90
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6	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	45	20	12	13	67	47	20	72
7	Hull City	45	19	13	13	68	59	9	70
8	Middlesbrough	45	19	9	17	68	61	7	66
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10	Preston North End Preston	44	18	9	17	56	61	-5	63
11	Bristol City	45	17	11	17	53	47	6	62
12	Cardiff City Cardiff	45	19	5	21	51	65	-14	62
13	Swansea City Swansea	45	15	12	18	59	64	-5	57
14	Watford	45	13	17	15	60	58	2	56
15	Sunderland	45	16	8	21	52	52	0	56
16	Millwall	45	15	11	19	44	55	-11	56
17	Queens Park Rangers QPR	45	14	11	20	45	57	-12	53
18	Stoke City Stoke	45	14	11	20	45	60	-15	53
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20	Sheffield Wednesday Sheff Weds	45	14	8	23	42	68	-26	50
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