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Hull City's players had to make do without any music before their match with Sheffield Wednesday

Hull City manager Grant McCann has criticised Sheffield Wednesday for trying to put his team off before their narrow victory at Hillsborough.

Jarrod Bowen's strike separated the teams, but McCann says Wednesday made the Tigers' preparations difficult after failing to provide car parking at the stadium and leaving them with no working plugs in the changing room.

"I'm really pleased with the group because Sheffield Wednesday tried to knock us, even when we got to the stadium," McCann said.

"They made me park 10 minutes away in my car - which was strange - and turned all the plugs off in the dressing room so we didn't have any music.

"But these things are here to test you. We got our heads down and worked hard.

"There were a lot of things before the game that tried to put us off. The hospitality here wasn't very good, I have to say. Stewards were arguing with my staff over plugs.

"It was ridiculous, to be honest with you. I think it's really sad that people can do this to opposition teams. We focused on the football and got the job done."

In response Sheffield Wednesday manager Garry Monk said: "I don't know anything about that.

"I don't hand out the parking spaces so it's nothing to do with me. I park 15 minutes away."

Jarrod Bowen (left) scored for the first time in four matches to give Hull their third successive league win over Sheffield Wednesday

City went level on points with the Owls and moved a point off the Championship play-offs after the win.

The visitors should have been ahead after 13 minutes, but Matthew Pennington somehow managed to chest the ball wide at the back post from a corner while the Tigers defender cleared Kadeem Harris' shot off the line 20 minutes later.

Half-time substitute Steven Fletcher almost had an instant impact for Wednesday as he hit the post following a corner.

But Bowen gave the visitors the lead soon after as he instinctively half-volleyed George Honeyman's cross for his 18th goal of the season and his first in four matches.

Both sides have 39 points and only Wednesday's superior goal difference sees them in seventh, one place above Hull.

Barry Bannan and Adam Reach had half chances for Wednesday either side of Pennington's first-half miss while Dominic Iorfa's challenge on Kamil Grosicki prevented a Hull chance in a scoreless opening period.

Hull almost doubled the lead soon after Bowen's goal as Grosicki blazed over the Wednesday bar after a swift counter attack, while at the other end Fletcher narrowly put a free-kick past the post with 15 minutes to go.

Sheffield Wednesday manager Garry Monk:

"I'm not happy at all. I think the over-riding feeling is that it's been a poor week from us.

"If you go back to the two weeks before, there were a lot of positives and a lot of good stuff with results showing what we're capable of.

"But then, within a week, three defeats. Of course that's not good enough.

"We haven't done enough this week to get on the right side of those margins. There's a lot of food for thought for me.

"As a collective, we need to respond and do it with actions. Actions speak a lot louder than words."