Wednesday 22 February 2017 12:22, UK
Marco Silva's demand for perfection has been key to Hull City's revival under the Portuguese head coach, defender Curtis Davies has told Premier League Daily.
The former Sporting Lisbon and Olympiakos boss replaced Mike Phelan at the start of January with the Tigers bottom of the Premier League, three points adrift of safety.
Hull have picked up seven points from their five league games under Silva, including a 0-0 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford and 2-0 win over Liverpool, to climb to 18th and are now just one point behind last season's champions Leicester.
Davies revealed Silva adapted quickly to his new surroundings and immediately set out what he wanted his new side to do.
"I think the fresh outlook has helped. Our performances actually weren't bad under Mike," Davies said.
"The new manager's come in and he's obviously been doing his homework, been watching his videos and looking at what everyone has got.
"But he hasn't taken time to let people settle in. Straight away he was saying, 'I want you to do this, I want you to do that', and just everything he does is towards the weekend. How we want to play, how we are going to go about it.
"Even if we do something as simple as a throw-in in training and it's not right, he makes you do it again until we get it right.
"And we sometimes go into meetings and it's meant to be a 10-minute meeting, you come out half-an-hour later with a headache, but the main thing is when you actually get on that pitch you know everyone's job.
"You don't just know your own job. I know my job, I know the left-back's job, I know the right-back's job, I know where everyone should be on the pitch so, if anything is not right everyone picks up on it."
Silva impressed his new players with his level of knowledge, not only on their results and tactics, but also being familiar to the points of knowing their names.
Davies said: "We were quite surprised. Obviously we know that if he knew he was going to get the job he would have been doing his homework, but he talking about when we played Bournemouth, the last time we played them and what happened, the way they scored the six goals against us and things like that.
"He was very cute with what he done, and that's why when we played them the next time we ended up getting a good victory."
