Having returned from Yorkshire last Saturday with all three points from the 2-0 win at Sheffield Wednesday, we are back on the road over the county border tonight with a visit to the MKM Arena against Hull.
With Leeds beating Watford last night at Elland Road, it means we travel to Humberside in third place in the table, one point behind both leaders Sunderland and Leeds. A positive result will see us go back above Leeds and we will go top should we have a better result than Sunderland at Luton.
Speaking ahead of the game, midfielder Josh Laurent, who returned to the team last Saturday, praised the Burnley supporters. ?They?ve been massive for us this season,? he said. ?I mean you could see after games when we win, how delighted they are and how behind us they are with us and push over the line in the game as well. Hopefully (at Hull) we can repay them again with three points.? He added: ?Hull is probably a little bit of a similar challenge to the weekend, as in it might be a bit of an open game, but we will go there with a game plan and the gaffer will have a game plan which he will put to us, and we have got to execute it as best we can. We?ll play our way, every game in the league?s tough and we have just got to be up for it as a group.?
Having played so well at Hillsborough, you?d expect him to play tonight but there will be no extra options for Scott Parker who continues to be without the services of Jordan Beyer, Hjalmar Ekdal, Hannes Delcroix, Joe Worrall, Aaron Rams...