Easy victory takes City to second place Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 As the sounds of David Bowie’s Heroes faded away, the Tigers came onto the pitch and simply blew Cardiff away. City rang the Ch-Ch-Ch changes from the Brighton game, Hernandez returning upfront, and Huddlestone and Snodgrass dropped to the bench. To be fair to City, they were never Under Pressure, and were good value for a well earned three points, as they edged Derby out of second place in the Championship. Hearts were in mouths in the 26th minute, when Pilkington got behind the defence, and lobbed over McGregor when it was easier to score. A let off. Cardiff lacked penetration, and City’s keeper hadn’t yet made a save, when City deservedly went ahead, Maguire drawing a penalty for the second time in a week, and the spot kick was hammered home by Hernandez, who was booked for over zealous celebrations. As so often this season, City moved up a gear in the second half, Clucas and Robertson performing their usual double act on the left. On another night Clucas might have had a hat trick, but got on the score sheet in the 50th minute, following good work from Hernandez. Chance followed chance, the tireless Maguire almost adding a third from the tightest of angles. City then saw off Cardiff with a composed defensive display, and still missed a number of chances. Starman? Maguire. This was an accomplished performance from all the team, and bodes well for the remainder of the run in. Keep winning our home games, and we’ll be there or thereabouts come the end of the season. Maybe this is going to be one of those Golden Years? Rest in Peace, David Bowie. http://www.hullcityosc.com/match-report/easy-victory-takes-city-to-second-place/
I did love it when the Cardiff lad lobbed McGregor and the away fans (all 12 of them) went mental, even though it went over the bar...
He ran over to Russell Slade to do it, unless it was aimed at someone on their bench. Any decent journo would have asked him what it meant when interviewed by RH after the game...
There lies the problem for me,SB needs to get another striker in either loan/transfer, as has been stated last twenty minutes at home without a striker on the pitch, the only reasons I see SB doing this is to protect Abel as we're so thin on the ground in the forward dept, but it does sent the wrong message to the opposition (last night being the exception)it invites them on to as we have no outlet up front, I still don't get this starting with one forward at home, Mange for Cardiff was an absolute bag of nerve's in the first half not much better second, with two pacey forwards going at him his head would have gone completely.
A professional workmanlike performance made easier by Cardiff's inability to put us under any pressure. Goals change games, how much easier it became after Abel scored. Could have been very different if Pilkington had put his lob into the onion bag
Cardiff were garbage - how they're 9th is beyond me - why Brucie keeps churning out negative tactics against teams as bad as that is criminal and is epitomised by Meylor who seems determined in breaking up attacks and then passing backwards - stewards were woeful - why check everyone's ticket over and over again and why block the exits at half time so everyone gets bottlenecked into single file - no wonder people stop going - the football is negative and you get treated like you're **** - maybe they should get their priorities right - more people taking cash on the day and get rid of the army of steward looking after 20 away fans
We created loads of chances after Hernandez went off and we went with three up top, does anyone complaining about it actually watch the game or do they sit there on their phone looking at the team lineup and substitutions without thinking about anything? We're joint second highest goalscorers in the league yet reading what the miserable ****s on here write you'd think we'd never ever score. We've scored the same as Derby who loads of people on here orgasm over because they have 15 strikers in their squad at any one time. Bruce will get us promoted, being solid and not flashy is how that's done, and he would know because he's never failed to get promoted from this league. If people on here were Middlesbrough fans they'd have topped themselves by now.
Cheers, I know Burnley and Sheffield Wed have scored one more but I wasn't sure if that made us joint second or third haha.
Cant see SB buying another striker because the Allams are ready to sell and wont dish out any more money so it looks like the loan market which wont be easy, Teams don't want to let a goal scorer out on loan and will try to sell first (unless he is a young lad) so I think we will be waiting until the end of the transfer window to see who is left.
The interview by Burnsy after the game was incredibly rude and unprofessional, he mentioned him not getting a hat-trick at least four or five times then continued to bang on about it after Sam had gone whilst completely ignoring the fact he was one of the best players on the pitch and scored a fantastic goal.
I can't decide if making the trip from Cardiff to Hull on a Wednesday night in January to watch that excuse for a team is admirable or if they really just have nothing better to do.
I'm sorry, did I say you should be arrested for it? You are free to have any opinion you want but you can't expect no criticism.
Well that absolutely proves you weren't watching the game, Elmo and Clucas pushed 20 yards up the pitch to be closer to Diamé.
