Plymouth Argyle boss Miron Muslic on Manchester City’s ‘wonderful’ Pep Guardiola

The Pilgrims opted to stay in the north of England after the cup tie rather than return home before their game at Hull City on Tuesday night.

The game has huge relegation ramifications for both sides – the Tigers are three points above Argyle and have a superior goal difference so defeat on Humberside would be a huge blow for Plymouth and Muslic.

But, should Argyle claim a first away league win this season, it would further boost the belief of a team that looked doomed when Wayne Rooney left as manager on New Year’s Eve, with the side bottom of the table having won just once in 14 games.

“I’m very happy this beautiful journey is behind us so we can refocus and find the right balance again to bounce back,” Muslic said.

And he hopes for a repeat of the kind of result they produced after their previous cup tie, when they followed up beating Liverpool by thrashing Millwall 5-1.

“Just three days later we needed to rebalance ourselves after that historical win and historical day to face Millwall and to be again super competitive,” Muslic recalled.

“The lads managed to do this in a very, very strong way and I think we need to have the same approach for Tuesday and also for Saturday.

“The FA Cup gave us a lot and we should take all these good things, the benefit of the FA Cup, into this competition [the Championship].

“If we can manage to do this, we will be again very hard to play.”