{"id":41511,"date":"2014-08-24T15:06:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T15:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=41511"},"modified":"2014-08-24T15:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T15:09:37","slug":"shawcross-scores-late-equaliser-as-10-man-hull-are-pegged-back-after-chesters-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/08\/shawcross-scores-late-equaliser-as-10-man-hull-are-pegged-back-after-chesters-red-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawcross scores late equaliser as 10-man Hull are pegged back after Chester’s red card"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was very nearly a second successive 1-0 victory for ten-man Hull and second successive 1-0 defeat for Stoke but a scrambled equaliser from Ryan Shawcross seven minutes from time gave Mark Hughes reason to breathe easier.<\/span><\/p>\n

He had seen his team play for 76 minutes against Steve Bruce\u2019s reduced side following James Chester\u2019s sending off and failing to muster a clear chance.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Stoke fell behind to Nikica Jelavic\u2019s predatory instincts before the interval he must have wondered how his impressive summer recruitment had disintegrated to this.<\/span>\"Goalscorer:<\/p>\n

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Goalscorer: Hull City striker Nikica Jelavic scored the opening goal of the game at the KC Stadium after 42 minutes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Sheer<\/p>\n
Sheer delight: Jelavic was in jubilant mood after putting his side one-nil up against Stoke City<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Equaliser:<\/p>\n
Equaliser: Ryan Shawcross levlled the scoring by netting a scrappy equaliser past Hull City’s\u00a0Allan McGregor<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Dismissed:<\/p>\n
Dismissed: Hull City defender James Chester was sent off by Premier League referee\u00a0Jonathan Moss after just 14 minutes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Unhappy:Unhappy: Hull City manager Steve Bruce did not look too pleased at losing his centre-back so soon into the game<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hull were resolute in their adapted 4-4-1 and Stoke lacking a cutting edge for all their pretty passing. But as it all looked lost Shawcross delivered where the forwards couldn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only four days ago Hull suffered defeat in their Europa League tie at Lokeren because of an uncharacteristic defensive error. In Belgium it was Allan McGregor who dallied and played a horrible pass to allow Hans Vanaken in for the decisive goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the KC Stadium another costly mistake at the back saw Hull down to ten men after only 14 minutes. A dangerous ball from Paul McShane rushed Jake Livermore into a pass back to Chester but Glenn Whelan stole in and got the first touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Chester\u2019s leg swung across and brought down the Stoke midfielder referee Jon Moss only really had one option. Chester was the last defender and Whelan advancing on goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

He walked off to a sympathetic ovation from the home fans but Stoke then took charge of possession and camped themselves in Hull\u2019s final third.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet for all the neat interchanges around the fringes of the box, Stoke failed to create a significant chance of note. There was too little guile or variation in their play.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 24th minute Phil Bardsley\u2019s fizzed cross eventually saw Erik Pieters firing a shot just over and on the half hour a Marko Arnautovic corner led to Ryan Shawcross illustrating why he is a centre-back with a miscued strike.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mame Biram Diouf was having an awkward time, failing to impose himself on Hull\u2019s reshuffled defence. Bruce had started with three at the back but made it a flat four with Chester\u2019s dismissal and they held firm against a side without that creative spark.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hughes made a career out of being sparky and he recognised the shortcoming, replacing Whelan with Bojan five minutes before the interval to affect matters.<\/span><\/p>\n

But his first involvement saw Hull open the scoring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Huddlestone brushed aside the former Barcelona prodigy, who stands some seven inches shorter, and struck a pinpoint left-foot shot from the edge of the area that would have gone in without Asmir Begovic\u2019s intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the Stoke goalkeeper could only parry to Jelavic, who took advantage of some slack marking by Marc Wilson to slide in a finish.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Friends<\/p>\n
Friends reunited: Bruce was unable to get one over his former Manchester United team-mate Hughes<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Keen<\/p>\n
Keen runner: Ahmed Elmohamady covered a lot of ground for Hull during their match against Stoke –\u00a0click HERE<\/a>\u00a0to view the Match Zone statistics from this weekend’s game at the KC Stadium<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

With Shane Long gone and a deal for Jordan Rhodes still some way off much relies upon the Croatian to rediscover rediscover his form from early Everton days.<\/span><\/p>\n

He got 11 goals in 16 games when he first arrived from Rangers in January 2012 but has only scored 14 in 70 in English football since. This was only his fifth Hull goal since moving for \u00a37m in January.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was against the run of play but showed the character Bruce has instilled in his players and the second half followed much the same pattern as Hull stayed firm and Stoke struggled for a breakthrough.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the interval Danny Higginbotham, a key player during the Tony Pulis years, tweeted: \u2018Stoke reminding me very much of the start of last season.. Good football but very little scrap. You have to have both.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

That would prove prophetic. Shawcross tested McGregor with a crisp shot following Arnautovic\u2019s free-kick and in the 64th minute Diouf should have done better than to head harmlessly wide as the ball looped up from substitute Peter Crouch\u2019s blocked shot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charlie Adam came on soon after and with his first touch unleashed an outrageous shot from 35 yards that McGregor adeptly tipped over.<\/span><\/p>\n

However unlikely, it looked like both teams were set for a repeat of their opening fixtures, when Hull won 1-0 win at Queens Park Rangers and Stoke lost 1-0 to Aston Villa.<\/span><\/p>\n

But seven minutes from time an ugly equaliser arrived from Shawcross. Bojan\u2019s inswinging cross found Bardsley deep in the area and his shot ricocheted off the post then McGregor before Shawcross prodded the ball just over the line.<\/span><\/p>\n

It took a while for Moss to get confirmation from his goal-line technology watch as play continued but he eventually signalled and stuttering Stoke had their first point of the new season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Dailymail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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