It's one of the oldest cliches in football, but Ralph Hasenhuttl is heeding it and taking every game as it comes as the season starts to hot up.
Ralph Hasenhuttl is happy with the way things are going at the moment in the League he has won 3 out of 7 games and racked up 10 points in doing so, a decent ratio that if he can continue it then it should see Saints home and dry with time to spare, indeed to put that in perspective in the year before his arrival in the Premier League we only won 4 games in total .
That emphasises that we have a decent squad that although does need an addition or two is more than capable of mid table in the Premier League, indeed Hasenhuttl's points ratio of just under 1.43 a game will see us safe on 42/43 points if he can keep it up.
In the past two years 44/45 points has been enough to secure a top 10 finish and i would not bet against Hasenhuttl achieving that, yes it is a big ask , but a target to aim for.
But the Austrian is not looking that far ahead, he is taking every game as it comes and although he was very pleased with the win at Leicester and the way it was achieved through adversity, his focus is now on tonight's FA Cup replay against Derby County .
"LEICESTER IS GONE, WE HAVE THE THREE POINTS AND NOW WE ARE FOCUSING ON A VERY TOUGH WEEK"
That is the message coming out of Hasenhuttl and one he is drilling in to his players.
"It was an important win for us, we spoke about that once again on Sunday, as a team. We congratulated them on a very passionate game, with good mentality."
"No one expected us to win after the red card from Valery, but then we put this game away because it is gone and we have the three points and now we are focusing on a very tough week with a replay against Derby and a very important game against Everton — both games at home and both games we want to win."
"Now the games are coming where we have to win and we have to consistently take points.
"We have showed against the good teams we can do it, and also the teams who are in our zone, and that will be important for the next weeks, because we are facing opponents in our zone, so those will be the most important games, six-point games, but first we are focusing on the FA Cup and then on the home game against Everton."
Hasenhuttl is right in several respects, firstly he is right to focus on Derby first, beating them would set us up nicely for the Everton game, the cup run last season was the one bright hope in the season and it reminded the players they could win games, indeed they seemed to have a different mindset in the Cup, they were more confident and more focused and that helped us in ways more than we would know.
From the supporters perspective and indeed perhaps the managers although this game might get in the way a bit it does mean that we will have Pierre Emile Hojbjerg back for Saturday after serving the last match of his suspension and that is a bonus, but if we can win and dispense Accrington Stanley in the next round the cup could be something realistic to aim at if we pull clear of the relegation zone.
Staying up is of course the number one priority and the game against Everton is vital in that, with two straight home games coming up, winning both of them would make the Premier League table look a lot different and suddenly the season might just get exciting.
But first it is one game at a time, there is no doubt that Hasenhuttl's team will look different tonight than it will do for Everton, but we do have a big squad and can cope with that better than most club's down at the bottom.