Hull City team news as Sergej Jakirovic plans changes, but nothing drastic
Sergej Jakirovic is not about to rip up the formula behind Hull City's strong start to life back in the Premier League but there will be changes for Sunday's visit of Brentford.
The Tigers had their first really disappointing performance of the season in defeat at Fulham last weekend.
Jakirovic is demanding a reaction from his players, but there will be one from him too.
Eight players have been league ever-presents this season, but the improving fitness of players signed in the summer gives him options, some of which he will use on Sunday.
According to Jajkirovic, Mohamed-Ali Cho, Lucas Gourna and Hidemasa Morita are all realistic options, despite the frustration of a scheduled friendly against Lincoln City on Tuesday being cancelled.
But when asked if there could be wholesale changes he replied: "No. A few."
"We expected Fulham like this, with a lot of aggression, with the front foot, good on the ball," said Jakirovic, managing in the Premier League for the first time this season. "When we watched the game again and analysed this, I can say it was an excellent meeting because you can see yourself.
"If you play this level without aggression, without body contact or to try to win the first or second ball, you will have a lot of problems.
"That happened on Saturday.
"We have to look forward. It was a tough weekend for us but we had all week to train well, a few good training sessions to try to improve some things and also with new players who joined us in the training session after their problems.
"Now we have much more options and we will try to pick tomorrow.
"Ali Cho, Gourna and Rita Morita have had one week more because they had also problems after Newcastle team and Morita joined to us in the last ten days.
"I hope their physical condition is much better than one or two weeks ago."
Nobel Mendy is still out injured, but due to join training on Monday.