Expect no let up, warns Hull boss

Despite a two-week break until their next fixture, Hull City boss Marco Silva has promised none of his players will be taking things easier.

The Tigers are without a fixture next weekend having been eliminated from The Emirates FA Cup at the fourth round stage.

Since then they have taken four points from Premier League games against Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal.

But with the division’s lowest goal scorers – second only to Middlesbrough – still in the bottom three, Silva intends to put in the hard yards on the training ground.

“We have time before our next game – time to rest and time to work on things for the next game,” said Silva, following a 2-0 defeat to Arsenal.

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“We caused Arsenal plenty of problems and I want the team to continue with the progress we are making.

“I saw some positive things in the game.

“I didn’t like the way we started but we reacted and I am happy that the team showed good things again.

“It was a very good second half for our team and we controlled the second half. Arsenal caused us a couple of problems with counter-attacks, but we had our chances to score and to change the result.

“We didn’t have a good day because our final decisions with those chances weren’t good.”