Southampton boss Nathan Jones admitted his side started too slowly in the Carabao Cup semi final second leg.
The Saints were 1-0 down from the home leg, and then went 2-0 down in the second leg as well.
While they put in a spirited display in the second half, Jones knew that it was too little, too late at that stage.
Look, congratulations to Newcastle, they're a fantastic side and on the whole over the two legs they probably deserved it," Jones said.
We were really disappointed with the first 15 to 20 minutes because it just gave ourselves a mountain to climb and they're poor goals to give away and it's definitely worked on, stuff we've identified from the first game from what they do and to concede in those manners was really disappointing."
He continued: The reaction was fantastic. We got a goal and I thought we were the better side from then on in.
But to ask yourselves to score three goals at St James' Park to take the game to extra-time is a big ask because these don't concede goals. We created chances, we created opportunities, but nothing gained. It's just too much to do."
