Hull City manager Leonid Slutsky says the Tigers are preparing for a different kind of challenge when Burton Albion visit the KCOM Stadium this weekend.
Saturday's Championship clash - Albion's first on the road this season - will be the first time the two sides have met in a competitive fixture. It is also Burton's first visit to the ground that was hosting Premier League football only three months ago.
Hull opened their Championship account with a 1-1 draw at Aston Villa on Sunday, Jarrod Bowen grabbing the second-half equaliser after Gabby Agbonlahor's seventh-minute opener.
Slutsky was at Boundary Park on Wednesday night watching Hull's upcoming opponents defeat Oldham Athletic 3-2 in the first round of the Carabao Cup.
And he is preparing his team for a different test to the one that Villa presented as both teams chase a first league win of the season.
"It's another kind of work this week compared to last week because we are preparing to face a different team," Slutsky told Hull's website.
"It's a different match with different principles and I hope our work will give us the advantage.
"Maybe Burton will come and look to play on the counter-attack, I don't know absolutely but it is one of the things we must prepare for.
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"The focus of our training work and lessons is a little different this week in preparation for Saturday, a game that we are all looking forward to."
Having watched on from the stands as the Brewers picked up their first competitive win of the campaign at Oldham in midweek, did Slutsky learn anything about how to make it back-to-back league losses for Nigel Clough's men?
"I watched (their) first match and I watched their cup match, but I think we understand it is a really strong team and a good squad," he added to the Hull Daily Mail.
"I think we understand them. But that is only 20 per cent.
"We must use their weaknesses and play on their strengths, but as I say we are not like a machine yet - we are still building."
