It looked like our third game in six days

“I was happy with the way that we played and disappointed to be a goal down at half time because I thought we created more chances than Burnley,” the England Under-21 manager said.

“Ade Akinbiyi scored a great goal but I thought we should have been level or in front. Then in the second half we created quite a few more decent chances but their keeper was in superb form.”

Speaking about the goal that gave the Clarets the win he added, “I did say at half time that I thought it had been too easy for Ade, but once I’ve seen the video I’ll discuss it with the central defenders. Having said that, I don’t want to take anything away from Ade because it was a good finish. Maybe we should have been a bit tighter though.”

Taylor thought Hull should certainly have drawn level right at the end of the first half when Brian Jensen came out to block an effort from Ryan France. "He should have been clever enough to realise that the goalkeeper is going to come and close down,” Taylor commented. “That means you have to go for a bit of height rather than smash it because that’s what he wants you to do.

“So I was a bit disappointed with that, but second half I thought some of finishing was good and their keeper just kept getting in the way. We had to keep pushing on because there was no point in going there to come away with a 1-0 defeat. We wanted to take some points out of it. Overall I am disappointed with the result but not disappointed with the performance.”

Steve Cotterill was happy enough but again thought his side made a slow start and thought that was because of the three games in six days schedule.

“We’re delighted with the clean sheet and the three points,” he enthused after the game. “It has moved us up in the table and I thought Ade’s goal was terrific. But other than that I thought it looked like our third game in six days.

“We used a lot of energy against Aston Villa and we didn’t get out of the traps like we would have liked. But in the 15 to 20 minutes before half time we could have scored two or three goals and it would then have been game over. At 1-0 though you are always going to be up against it and we did look a bit tired.

“It is hard enough playing three games in a week and when you knock off another day it is vital as another 24 hours gives you a bit more time to rest and prepare.”

Looking at the league table he was already considering the Saturday games and added, “Hopefully everyone else will draw on Saturday and we can stay in 11^th place, because we’ve been down there and we don’t think we’ve deserved to be where we have been at times, but that happens.” [Steve certainly got his wish with the league placing after the Saturday games]

He admitted that we were somewhat fortunate to win and said, “Hull came here and played a good game and probably deserved to take something out of the match, but that’s been like us this season and we are delighted with the win. The players can now have a weekend off and look forward to working again on Monday ahead of Tuesday’s game against Millwall.”

Again he had praise for Ade Akinbiyi who scored the winning goal. “It was a good goal to win the game. It wasn’t silky football to get there, I think it got a deflection on the way, but I though the finish was fantastic.

“We are delighted with it and we are delighted with him because he is the most honest boy you could ever meet in your life. He puts a lot of effort and energy into his football and it is a pleasure to work with him.”

Ade wasn’t the only player he heaped praise on and had special words for Brian Jensen. “It is about time our goalkeeper was man of the match because we’ve played against a few this season who have. I don’t particularly like our keeper to be man of the match at home but we’ll take it.”

Finally he spoke of new loan signing Nathan Dyer and explained why he didn’t get into the action. He had some special words for the youngster, particularly with the comparison.

“We felt tonight that Hull were a big team and if we were going to change our formation we had to make sure we didn’t get done on a set play. It could have been a defining moment if we had put on someone who would have been more mobile than Gifton, but Gifton might get his head on something from a set play in our box and we couldn’t give anything away there.

“Nathan is a nice young lad and a real bundle of energy, so hopefully we’ll see more of him. I saw him in Southampton’s reserves and he reminds me a little bit of Jermain Defoe before he went on loan to Bournemouth.”