Hull City striker Oli McBurnie has given insight into the dressing room at half-time during their 2-2 draw with Preston North End at MKM Stadium.
City were caught caught cold early on, finding themselves two goals behind in the opening 10 minutes.
McBurnie led the charge with both goals as the Tigers mounted a second-half comeback to rescue a point.
The Scotland striker discussed the half-time process as his side looked to claw their way back into the game.
“It’s a bit like the story of our season really – one half really good, and one half really bad. Conceding two goals so early on, giving ourselves an uphill battle is not ideal,” McBurnie told BBC Radio Humberside.
“At half-time we said ‘let’s see what we’re about, let’s see what we’re made of’. Times like this is where you can find out a lot about the boys in the dressing room. The skipper said at half-time ‘let’s put it to bed, we’ll speak about it afterwards, let’s see what we’re made of now’.
“I think we’ve come out in the second half and looked like a completely different team and showed how good we can be when we’re on the front foot.”
Hull appointed head coach Sergej Jakirovic in June and the Bosnian has experienced an inconsistent start from his side in the opening eight games of the season.
McBurnie was one of 12 new summer signings and quick to praise Jakirovic for his triple substitution at half-time that saw Liam Millar, Joe Gelhardt and Regan Slater replace Amir Hadziahmetovic, Cody Drameh and Kasey Palmer.
“The gaffer’s made three changes,” he said. “I thought the boys who came on were excellent – it gave us real energy and it impacted the game in the way that we wanted to. Buzzing for Liam [Millar] to come on after being out for so long but I thought all the boys that came on really changed us for the positive.
“That’s not just saying the boys that came off, it was their fault, because any of us could have been taken off at half-time. But the gaffer showing the initiative to know that we needed to change something did it, and it’s worked out perfectly.
“We’re disappointed not to come away with the three points because I think we were good enough in the second half to do that, and to be fair their keeper has pulled one out the stands in the 94th minute to keep them in the game.”
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