Southampton boss Ruben Selles has defended using their January signings sparingly.
Kamaldeen Sulemana, Paul Onuachu and Mislav Orsic have all featured mainly off the bench.
Selles told the Daily Echo: I will not evaluate the squad, I have a big squad with 30 or 31 players in the squad and we talk always about the players who are not there.
If today, we start with other players we will have conversations about the players who are out. A lot of players are out of the squad, it is not for me to evaluate the quality of it I just have to work with the big squad.
We have this conversation every week because there is a lot of options. Today we started with Arma because he is training well and giving us consistency in some positions. We can defend any decision with any parameters but the reality is we will always talk about the players not in the squad."
He added, Mislav was in the squad last week and Onuachu was also last week, I don't think it is the same ones.
I don't think it is about quality, it is about decisions. I have to make decisions and then I have to give to you some comment on that so it is not about the quality of the boys."