“Of course, everybody wants to be up there, and my players know that we have to push..."

“Things can change very quickly. We’ve got four games now up until the New Year, so there are a lot of points there, a lot of games and a lot of opportunity for us."

"It's easy to separate or find problems to put on somebody else, but these problems are our problems, so we need to sort it out all together."

"It's an important game, like all the others. Every game for us is a final, because we want to be close to the Play-Offs."

“Hull City are a good side with a lot of good players, I think it’ll be a tough game but we’re more than capable of getting a result there."

"My players have to give everything to stay high in the table. If you don’t take any points, we have to at least fight until the end."

“It’s very important for us, on our bad days, to take the three points and I’m very happy for my goal also, and for the three points."

"We knew how important this game was off the back of two defeats. All that mattered today was getting the three points..."

"At the end of the day, we won, this is what is more important for us and then we will look at the parts where we made mistakes and try to correct ourselves before the next game. We are happy to get the win.”

“You could see in the players faces after the game that they worked hard. But they are also happy with how today went.”

"Playing well is not enough, so we need points through winning these games.”

“There are a lot of games coming up, so we just want to keep the spirits high. We can get that by winning games."

“It is about the quality to finalise things up front and our level right now against these kinds of teams.”

"I’ve said to my players that we’ve improved a lot since the start of the season up to today, but we will not stop now..."

“It’s not going to be easy whatsoever, but I feel like where we were, we shouldn’t fear that, we should go there and go to win.”

The City boss addressed the press at CCS post-match...

“We kept the ball, we tried to create chances from the sides and we had a lot of shots on goal, so at the end, I think we deserve to get the three points."

"Coming away to Preston, it's a tough place to come to. But I think we did well as a team, and I'm happy to get the winner."

“Tiredness will come, as will injuries and cards, though I hope not. That’s why I need the other guys now, they need to show character and perform on the field."

“We’ve all got confidence in the training ground. We have a good squad, a good manager and a good coaching staff, so everything is there.