Saints midfielder Jordy Clasie says that having to sit out with his first ever long-term injury has been tough for him, but he hopes to make it up to the fans now he is back healthy.
In an interview for the Southampton programme, he has spoken of his frustration at not being able to play.
I’m always frustrated to have to watch a game rather than support your teammates on the pitch. You can do nothing but watch from home which was frustrating but that’s football and sometimes you are unlucky.
Clasie has also said that he and the team have the goal of achieving an even better finish than last year’s seventh place.
Hopefully as a team we can do better than last season which is a difficult job, because last season the boys did very well to get to seventh place and it’s difficult to beat that because you’ve got some very good teams here, but I think we can do it better this time or at least the same as last year.
Dutchman Clasie joined Saints from Feyenoord in the summer but has had the start to his career on the South Coast plagued by injury, having only had two Premier League appearances so far this season.
He did feature in Southampton’s first European qualifier against Vitesse Arnhem, however, after that, he did not play again until mid-October.
Clasie will be hoping to make an appearance when Southampton take on bottom of the league Aston Villa in the Capital One Cup.
