Bristol City suffer injury blow ahead of Hull City clash

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Daniel Wales reports on Bristol City ahead of their clash in the Championship at home against Hull City.

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00:00It's been a mixed week of fortunes for Bristol City.

00:04They picked up a point in their last championship match,

00:08albeit conceding a late equaliser against Derby County.

00:11And then they went to Craven Cottage and got some good experience

00:15playing a Premier League side, but ultimately lost 2-0

00:18and were dumped out of the competition.

00:19And then Josh Stokes has now been confirmed to have picked up

00:23a broken metatarsal.

00:24So you could argue perhaps actually there's more negative

00:27than there is positive there.

00:28But for Bristol City, they next go into the championship

00:32and face Hull City back home at Ashton Gate

00:35and hope to get back to winning ways after, of course,

00:38their opening day win away at Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.

00:42It won't be an easy test against Hull,

00:44but it's a game that they will be the favourites in,

00:47favourites to pick up all three points and win.

00:50So can they handle the pressure and make sure that they are

00:53getting back to winning ways as quickly as possible?

00:55Let's hear what Kurt Hodstuber had to say.

00:58Yeah, with Stokes, we have...

01:02Yeah, we were worried.

01:04Right now we know it is a broken metatarsal.

01:08Yeah, so broken foot.

01:11His injury will cost him three months.

01:17Yeah.

01:18So, yeah, we are very...

01:20I feel very sorry for him.

01:21So he was in the pre-season and a little bit out with injury.

01:24And then we realised he is on the way back.

01:27And now, ah, an injury on this level.

01:31Yeah, it's bad.

01:32But, yeah, it's the situation.

01:35And we have to do the best right now for him

01:37that he is hopefully quick back.

01:39And especially for him because having had a pretty successful loan all of last year

01:44and he'll have been desperately keen to impress

01:47and to not get that opportunity because of an injury is doubly frustrating.

01:51Yes, of course.

01:52It's a big frustration for himself.

01:54And I can feel with which ambition he would be on the training,

01:59how he liked it to step in the world of football,

02:04what we want to do.

02:06And he made good steps.

02:09Yeah, but this is sport.

02:11And you cannot control everything.

02:13And this is a moment, yeah, he's not alone with that.

02:17We have the one or other player next to him with injury.

02:21So, yeah, they help together and do everything.

02:26And with the medical group and with the physios that he is hopefully back soon.

02:32Well, fingers crossed that that does happen.

02:35Thankfully, there's only another three days left before the window closes

02:38and we don't have to keep asking you questions.

02:40But I think we know that the club would like to add to the squad

02:45and maybe a couple of people leaving.

02:47What is the situation at the moment?

02:50The situation is at the moment that we are very busy in all direction.

02:54And I would say the last few days, also yesterday and today,

02:59that the thing's going on.

03:02And I am very hopeful that we realise.

03:05We realise the one or other player in the next days.

03:10We know Monday everything will close and this means we have to bring tempo in our process.

03:18But I would say we will do it in the next few days.

03:24So you've got as much as, you know, the English expression is how long is a piece of string?

03:28You never quite know, but you've got some confidence that something will happen.

03:32Yeah, I think we, I did a good homework.

03:36I think I work very hard in this direction to have, in the end,

03:41for the club players on the table, they can help us.

03:45So I think in more directions, we need more people on the driver's seat right now

03:52and go together in this way.

03:56But my feeling is good and I have big trust in our management and in our owner

04:02that we can do it in this way.

04:04And I hope we realise it in the next one or two days.

04:08Well, let's hope that that does happen.

04:10From all the games that you've played so far this season,

04:13is there an area of play that you are particularly happy with?

04:18Something you think the team has really grasped well?

04:21Yeah, I would say I can see that when we come in transition moments,

04:26we are sharp and we have a clear idea how we want to break our opponent down.

04:32This is a very good mix between dynamic and also technical power

04:39and also decision making.

04:41I would say in this way we are sharp.

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