Speaking to the official site Allardyce enthused how his team took the game to the hosts. ““It was as close as it can get I think to the perfect away performance.”
“It was a fantastic start. We were on the front foot, we wanted to impose our own football on them and we did just that.
“The squad is being used to its full potential. We just scraped four subs on the bench; there was no more after that. It really was a great performance and a great victory. We could have had more.
“I think we are being a bit greedy to think Southampton would lose at home with such a fantastic record. It is a great comeback. But it is about the distance we have put between ourselves and Cardiff and Middlesbrough. That is now considerable, that takes the pressure off the lads.
“It is getting greater and greater. It leaves the challenge open for us and Southampton to fight it out but really it is far to early to say that will be the case. We are only 19 games in of a 46-game season. It is a long haul yet but it we are playing some fantastic stuff and winning games of football.
“We are all happy. I look at the 1,500 fans who have travelled all this way on a Tuesday night. They are sat out there in the freezing cold but they will be happy to have seen a victory and it will have made the journey home that much better.”