Hull boss Mike Phelan will wait by his phone on Monday expecting more bad injury news.
The Tigers won their first Premier League game since August as they beat Southampton 2-1 on Sunday, but it came at a cost as they lost Abel Hernandez and Will Keane to injury in the opening 25 minutes.
They shook off that double blow, which came on the back of conceding a sixth-minute penalty scored by Charlie Austin, to score two goals in two second-half minutes, ending a run of six successive league defeats.
But while that gave Phelan reason to cheer, the impending bad news on Hernandez and Keane is deflating, considering Hull's shocking luck with injuries this season.
"They are going to be looked at on Monday, medically the signs aren't very good," Phelan said. "Keane is the worst of the two and they are both going to be out for some time. Keane is knee and Hernandez is groin.
"It's a case of wait and see, it doesn't look good. I'll leave that to the medical team and wait for the phone call. They are crazy injuries, there is no reason why, it's just the wrong place at the wrong time."
Phelan enjoyed the winning taste for the first time since becoming permanent manager last month and praised the spirit in the squad after a horror run of results.
"The group have an inner belief and determination," he added. "Sometimes it goes for you, sometimes it doesn't. We have to believe in what we are doing and it is massively important everyone around the club has an inner belief too."
Claude Puel says his Southampton side can learn from the defeat, one he could scarcely believe.
The Saints, who beat Inter Milan in the Europa League on Thursday, were in complete control up until Hull's two-goal blast and even then had a host of chances to claim a point.
"We can do better, this is a good lesson for us for the future because we had control of the game," the Frenchman said.
"We lacked concentration and afterwards it was difficult to score. We had chances after that but we weren't clinical. It's difficult to accept how we lost this game.
"We dominated the game and controlled it. When you win a game like Inter Milan, when you come back to the Premier League to play a team who plays one game a week it is difficult.
"I think we will learn for the future. Every game in the Premier League is difficult. We deserved the points today."
Source: PA
