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Oli McBurnie has urged his Hull City team-mates to focus on finishing the job by confirming a place in the end-of-season Championship play-offs.
Hull were wounded by Saturday’s late 2-1 defeat at Sheffield United and their promotion push has lost momentum at a critical time, with the club winning just four of their last 13 league games.
McBurnie says they must focus on the bigger picture, adding that no-one expected
It remains to be seen how damaging Saturday’s result will prove to be for Hull City, who have now won just two of their past eight games.
McBurnie, making his first return to the club he made 146 league appearances for in five years, got them off to the perfect start with his 13th goal of the season.
The Scotland international almost made it 2-0 but Mark McGuiness scrambled his
Eight wins from Coventry’s previous nine matches restored the Sky Blues as runaway leaders, their promotion back to the Premier League increasingly viewed as a formality with less than four weeks of the season remaining.
Hull are among the automatic promotion hopefuls who have stuttered below them and, while they dropped points to relegation-battling Oxford United three days earlier, the Tigers highlighted just how hard Lampard’s side will have to
Oxford United continued their fine run against promotion-chasing Hull City, but remain in the Championship relegation zone.
Oxford recovered from conceding after just four minutes to Mohamed Belloumi’s goal to level nine minutes later through captain Cameron Brannagan from the penalty spot.
Matt Bloomfield’s Oxford side have taken 11 points from their latest six games thanks to this result, and they might have snatched a stoppage-time winner when Mark Harris
Hull City midfielder Eliot Matazo may not play again this season after picking up a quad injury to derail his recovery from knee surgery, boss Sergej Jakirovic has confirmed.
The Belgian faces a further “three or four weeks” on the sidelines after being withdrawn from an Under-21’s game, having already been absent from the squad for over a year because of his knee ligament injury.
“Our target is that
With Millwall forced into a late reshuffle after Casper de Norre was injured in the warm-up, it was the home side who took control early on, as Oli McBurnie and Joseph both went close.
Joseph’s close-range header from John Lundstram’s cross crashed against the bar but the Lions responded by snatching the lead with their first opportunity as Crama headed back Azeez’s free-kick for Cooper to hook in.
Hull struck
Azor Matusiwa scored the winner as Ipswich Town climbed into third place in the Championship despite a stubborn display from fellow promotion hopefuls Hull City at Portman Road.
Ipswich dominated throughout but were kept at arm’s length by the well-organised and hardworking Tigers until Matusiwa broke through with 19 minutes remaining.
The midfielder smashed in a shot from long range that hit the underside of the crossbar on its way
Hull now face what could be a pivotal week as they play promotion rivals Ipswich Town and Millwall.
At Fratton Park the Tigers thought they had continued their momentum from Tuesday’s win over Derby as McBurnie put the ball in the net after Joe Gelhardt’s effort was saved, only to see the linesman’s flag go up for offside.
The early let-off spurred Pompey into action, with Terry Devlin’s long-range effort
Hull City winger Yu Hirakawa is set to miss the rest of the season with an ankle injury.
The 25-year-old Japan international, who is on loan from Bristol City, picked up the injury in Saturday’s home defeat by QPR.
“It’s very bad news, he must have surgery,” boss Sergej Jakirovic told BBC Radio Humberside.
“It’s terrible news. He adapted here very well and he played good, but unfortunately no luck.”
With 80 minutes on the clock, the story of the game had been about the defensive mistakes that led to the first two goals.
After a slow start, QPR took the lead from a set piece, as Hull goalkeeper Ivor Pandur and Oli McBurnie failed to get anything on Harvey Vale’s in-swinging corner before it deflected in off McNair under pressure from Jimmy Dunne at the back post.
The goal