McBurnie calls on Hull to secure play-off place

Hull City striker Oli McBurnie [Shutterstock]

Oli McBurnie has urged his Hull City team-mates to focus on finishing the job by confirming a place in the end-of-season Championship play-offs.

Hull were wounded by Saturday's late 2-1 defeat at Sheffield United and their promotion push has lost momentum at a critical time, with the club winning just four of their last 13 league games.

McBurnie says they must focus on the bigger picture, adding that no-one expected them to be in this position after avoiding relegation on goal difference on the final day last season.

City lie sixth, the final play-off position, four points clear of seventh-placed Wrexham with just four games remaining.

McBurnie, 29, told BBC Radio Humberside: "We're in a great position with four games to go, it's still in our own hands.

"If you'd offered any of the fans or any of the players at the start of the season that they'd be in this position with four games to go, they would have snapped your hand off, so we're still in there.

"Like I've said, we've put ourselves in a great position this year, and that's not through luck or through anything like that. It's through the boys in that dressing room and the staff in that dressing room.

"So we'll do what we always do. We'll dust ourselves down and then we'll go again next week."

The Scottish international, who is Hull's leading marksman this season with 15 goals, including 14 in the Championship, says the Tigers need to create more after scoring just twice in their last three games.

"I think that's been our problem a little bit in the last couple of weeks," he said. "We've been really good defensively and as a unit, but maybe we've lacked that little bit of creativity where we were so good at the start of the season."

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