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Seeing as I went, I thought I'd put some thoughts and observations down.
Only opinion, some may not agree, but that's to be expected.
de Vries, Lam, Iacovitti, Mills, Cohen (c) (Grant 26'), Burke, Hildeberto (Gabriel 82'), Cash, Osborn, Lansbury, Vellios (Assombalonga 69')
New faces and youngsters making up the bulk of the side.
1st Half-
Lack lustre, lethargic, basically ineffective. Two awful goals, but a total lack of movement and effort to close players down.
The defence was all over the place and the goal threat zero.
It took Cohen going off, to start to raise the tempo, but still wasn't enough. Passes going astray and trying to do too much. Though Hull weren't exactly terrifying me, as they seemed rather light at times.
2nd half
Started much better and at least matched Hull in the middle which allowed the back four to get into the game. Lam showed a good footballing brain and Hilderberto, started to get forward more and showed frightening pace.
Still wasn't convinced anything would change until Assombalonga entered the fray.
With Vellios off, the Hull defenders has to contend with a much quicker forward and he was soon pulling them away from each other.
Doris had nothing to do in the second half, whilst Kuciak pulled off 3 blinding saves.
Burke whilst showing he has skill had been guilty of doing too much on many occasions, finally go onto a good through ball from Osborn and took his chance well.
Another blinding save from Kuciak right at the death saved the game for Hull.
I have to view this game, that the players on the fringe (Iocavitti, Grant, Burke, Grabriel, Cash) were given the bulk of the game to show what they can do.
Iocavitti didn't inspire me and nether did Grant. Burke and Cash did enough to warrant a step up to the bench. Gabriel didn't get long enough for an opinion.
Due to the youngsters being there, I'd give them a kind 6.5.
Saturdays team will be a long way different to this.