Friday 24th sees Hull City making the second evening kick off of the midweek fixtures at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane ground. The 8PM kick off under the lights poses another difficult game for The Tigers as we take on the Championship leaders who are slugging it out with Leeds United for the ever changing positions between first and second place with Sheffield taking the latest top spot after beating Swansea 2 - 1 away at the Ex Liberty Stadium on Tuesday adding another victory to make 3 straight wins in a row and 18 for the season so far.

Meanwhile Hull City with just 6 wins will be licking their wounds after a tough 2 - 1 defeat to QPR which presented new signing Joe Gelhardt with his first full 90 minutes in black and amber, rewarding the Tiger Nation with a sublime goal but sadly nothing more than a consolation prize by the final whistle.

City seem quite busy in the transfer market and have already signed, what look to be promising players and may see a fresh face or two on Friday night, most notably in Kyle Joseph, the Ex Blackpool player highly rated by former City boss, Steve Bruce as a work horse. The key is, to somehow find that extra piece of magic in the final stages of our play. From Tuesday against The Hoops, the work rate by city was unquestionable and we can see a clear change in our mentality from negative, miserable football under Walter to a more positive ambitious mentality under Ruben Selles and that at least has got the fans interest back but we desperately need to start putting wins together.

Chris Wilder is a clever manager and studies the opposition well, setting up a 4-2-3-1 formation against the Swans which he switched from a 4-3-3 set up at the weekend, beating Norwich 2 - 0, both penalties scored by Burrows who also scored the winning penalty against Swansea to take all three points so being disciplined in the box is important.

City last played The Blades in October 2004 which was a dismal affair under Walter and resulted in a 2 - 0 defeat in front of 22,000 unhappy supporters which was our 5th game without a win from the beginning of the season and sitting in 19th place. Friday will see us approach the game from 21st position but arguably, with a better and more capable team and certainly a more positive mind set. Ideally we need the sort of mind set that Keith Edwards had who played for both the Tigers AND the Blades...Twice. That Killer instinct in front of goal.

Goes without saying a very tough and physical game and would definitely feature Amrabat at some point with Matt Crooks to start and give us arial dominance in midfield from the get go. I would have to go with 1 - 1 for this game and in all honesty be happy with an away point.

My line up would be...

Pandur
Jacob
Jones
Burns
Drameh
Vaughan
Alzate
Crooks
Gelhardt
Puerta
Pedro.