The pair drew 2-2 in South Wales when they met back in September
Liam Millar and Oli McBurnie celebrate the opening goal at Deepdale(Image: Martin Rickett/PA Wire)
Swansea City head coach Vitor Matos has picked out Liam Millar and Oli McBurnie as two of Hull City’s biggest threats as he looks to derail the Tigers’ promotion surge.
Both Millar and ex-Swans ace McBurnie scored in Tuesday night’s eye-catching 3-0 win at Preston North End on Tuesday night, which moved City back up to fourth in the Championship.
Matos, who oversaw in midweek a comfortable 3-1 win over City‘s opponents next weekend, Blackburn Rovers, knows his side will have to be at their best to get anything from one of the league’s form teams.
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The Swans have recovered from a poor start to the season under the Portuguese, with that win over Rovers their third in six games to move them away from danger and into the relative safety of mid-table.
“It’s a good team, really well organized, 4-3-3, good players, Oli, Liam as well, who was in the Liverpool Academy when I was there, so they have a good team, really competitive, really dangerous with the ball, on attacking vertical, but with an idea and with a direction,” he said on the eve of the trip to East Yorkshire.
“A good game, a game that we need to be focussed for 90 minutes and do really well with and without the ball. The belief doesn’t come only from the results. It needs to come from what they do in training sessions and what the team is growing.
“I think that’s clear that from the first day, it is about developing a winning mentality, and if you want that, you need to have that away or at home, and I think that’s from where the belief comes.”
Matos will be able to call upon Brazilian winger Gustavo Nunes after he joined on loan from Premier League outfit Brentford, but Zeidane Inoussa, Ethan Galbraith, Ishe Samuels-Smith and striker Adam Idah will all miss the trip to East Yorkshire.
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