Hull City v Millwall: Championship playoff semi-final, first leg – live

​ ⚽ Championship news from the first leg; kick-off 8pm BST⚽ Forty years of playoffs | Follow on Bluesky | Mail SimonSergej Jakirovic, the Hull City manager, has a chat:I think we are very similar teams, it’s 50/50 and we’ll see. Today we have to be very tactically wise. Of course we will try to score and take an advantage into the second leg … Nothing will be decided tonight, but we will try to win the game.In my opinion, the regular season is over. It doesn’t matter who’s in bigger form. It’s a tournament. We have to be better in two games. No away goals. And we will try to beat Millwall. They have to believe in themselves. We showed already, we played almost all season very good. All season, it’s believe in yourself, try to do what we are practising in training sessions, and I think in the end we deserve to be there because mostly we were there.We’re really relaxed. We’re ready. The club’s been trying to get in the playoffs for 24, 25 years and we’ve managed that, so it’s been a brilliant season so far. The first leg, naturally once it’s done, might shape what the second leg looks like, but our aim naturally is to win the first game. For us, we’ve played Hull twice this year, what it did show is both teams are more than capable of beating each other. It’s going to be an end to end game. I’ll be interested to see how it goes.The owners made it clear to me how he wanted things to evolve. The recruitment’s been brilliant and the lads are absolutely first class. They’re very humble, they’re very hard working and I think if you’ve got a lot of those ingredients, that’s the recipe for success. As far as we’re concerned, we’ve got an unbelievable opportunity and we’ve got to just go for it. Continue reading… Read More