Rickie Lambert believes Southampton can have no complaints after Saturday’s crushing 6-1 defeat away at Arsenal, The Southern Daily Echo reports.

Saints’ misery was compounded after Jos Hooiveld and Nathaniel Clyne both scored own-goals to add further gloss to the score line for the Gunners.

It sums up a brutal introduction to the Premier League for Nigel Adkins’ side, who remain the only side without a point this season and have conceded a whopping 14 goals in their first four matches.

He said: “I think they thoroughly deserved their victory, the margin as well,” he said. “We were unlucky with some goals, but they could have scored more as well. I think it was about right."

The south coast side were constantly tormented by Lukas Podolski and Santi Cazorla, who are both proving to be very useful addition to Arsene Wenger’s team.

This led Lambert to admit that the visitors were simply not good enough to cope with the North Londoners.

“We will have to look at it, but credit to Arsenal – I thought they were excellent. They had a couple of players we couldn’t handle", he added.

Southampton will be aiming to get their first points of the season when they host Aston Villa at St Mary’s next Saturday.