“Let’s go and enjoy it. When did we last take 5,000 to an away game?” We believe in ourselves. And, although the voyage in that FA Cup competition would end in the very next round, City still had the final at Wembley Stadium to look forward to, eventually beating West Brom 2-1.
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Danny Mills played for City and was then loaned out to Hull in 2006 while Tommy Wright was on loan at both sides at one time before making the City move permanent in 1997.
“(One-time Manchester United assistant) Archie Knox used to say this was the time you could start smelling the (Wembley) hot dogs. Derby started really well, although their two goals came from our mistakes and poor play. They are tied for points with Watford. “The reason we did well against those teams is that we worked hard for 90 minutes or more”. I remember taking my Beskitas side to Stoke and they brought 3-4,000 fans.
“We will see, with the medical staff, the way they recover from these games”, he said. To do so they’ll need to overcome a tough Hull defense, a side that has won six of their previous nine in the Championship – all by shutout. We’re the underdogs, but insane things happen in football. Now he cannot wait to team up with Silva for a sustained period – they have only been on the pitch together for 159 minutes. Our main objective is to go back to the Premier League but make no qualms about it, we’re going into the game looking to win and looking to get through to the semi-finals. The players, when they went to warm up, felt extra energy.
“Everybody could see that Roberto could have used one more chance maybe, but he played a good match!” If the Chilean prefers his players to talk for him, they spoke pretty eloquently during an opening spell which threatened to overwhelm Southampton.
“I feel good how I’m playing at the moment and hopefully I’m giving (the manager) a bit of a headache to put me in the starting 11”.
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Klopp saw his team beat Swansea City 1-0 on Sunday courtesy of a James Milner penalty and was also boosted by the returns from injury of captain Jordan Henderson and striker Daniel Sturridge.
