SAM Allardyce will send his players out at Southampton with simple instructions: Go out and win.

The Wanderers boss will not be happy with anything less than three points which could secure their Premiership status for next season.

Allardyce says a victory at Southampton would be "a massive result" and is urging his troops to be ravenous for a win in the teatime kick off.

With West Ham's home game against Chelsea finished by the time Wanderers get underway at St Mary's, the Whites will know if they start the game in the drop zone or if they need only a draw to survive, barring a mathematical miracle with goal difference.

Aston Villa and Fulham will also have completed their penultimate games of the season, while Leeds will have to wait until the following day to try and prise a point or three away at championship-chasing Arsenal.

The pressure is on everybody and Allardyce knows that the best way to ease it is by winning at the FA Cup finalists.

"We have to perform like it is our last throw of the dice and get a result because it might be enough if other results go our way," he said. "It will be a massive result at Southampton if we get a win because all the other teams down at the bottom will be gutted.

"We've got to do it for ourselves and not rely on other teams and the players have to produce what they have been producing for the last 10 games."

Allardyce has a feeling that even a win may not be enough with the form West Ham have been showing recently.

Beaten only once in eight games, the same as Wanderers, it is not beyond them to do the double over a high-flying Chelsea side that is chasing a European Champions League place.

"It looks like it is going down to the wire," Allardyce acknowledged.

"We had an ace up our sleeve last year when someone else did it for us but that isn't going to happen this year.

"I feel the Middlesbrough game will be the final decider."

Southampton have proved a formidable force in the Premiership and FA Cup this season but the fact that they have an FA Cup Final looming shortly and that they have already qualified for

Europe makes them something of an unknown quantity.

"I don't know which way it is going to affect them," questioned Allardyce.

"They don't need to win to get into Europe because they are already there, whether they win or lose the FA Cup Final.

"They may be more relaxed which might make them easier to play than normal but it may make them more adventurous.

"We will have to combat that and then get the result we need. We must be more defensively sound."

The jury is still out with the Reebok boss over whether knowing other results before the game will prove a good thing.

"If West Ham lose it might make us a little complacent and if they win it might affect us the opposite way," he added.

"But as professionals we have to handle it and we proved the last time it happened that we can handle it well when we produced a magnificent performance to beat Spurs on the Monday night.

"We will have to deal with whatever comes our way."