DUSAN Tadic is adamant Saints are not mentally weak – but admits they get "nervous" playing at St Mary's at the moment.

Saints have won just once in five home games in the Premier League this season and have often been booed by their own supporters after turgid displays.

But Mauricio Pellegrino's men want to atone for their poor results by being more "aggressive" and playing "faster" when they welcome West Bromwich Albion to the south coast on Saturday.

"Sometimes we miss chances and then the opponents score the first goal and we become a bit nervous," Tadic said, who wants Saints to be more exciting.

"This is may be one of the problems. I don't know really, but it's true when we're at home and away we need to be more aggressive and play much faster.

"We will then get the energy from the fans and then we can score."

The playmaker, who has netted once in eight games this term, believes the team are influenced by the negative atmosphere that has sometimes featured at St Mary's as Saints sturggle to hit form at home.

"Yes, but also it's normal when you're a fan and you like a club that you'll be frustrated by some things because you love the club," he said.

"When we play sometimes at home we need to make, from the first moment, a warm atmosphere. Then the fans will be with us.

"They are with us but I mean we want to push and give them something, more excitement, and then they'll take more joy from watching us and they'll be more lively.

"Also for us we know this is what we should do at home and because before [in previous seasons] we broke teams like that. When we played at home we broke teams easier."

When asked if he felt Saints were mentally weak at the moment, Tadic replied: "I cannot say that.

"I don't know what is the problem but hopefully we will solve that against West Brom."

The Serbia international, who has just helped his nation to qualification to the World Cup finals in Russia next summer, wants Saints to up their tempo.

Often Pellegrino's side have been unable to break down defensive opponents and have been accused of producing pedestrian build-up play not conductive to breaking down compact sides.

Tadic explained: "We need to play fast. When someone is well organised you need to break them but if you wait one or two seconds the moment is gone.

"But if you play fast I think we can break them."