Hull City 1-1 Coventry City: FLW report as Abu Kamara strike earns three-point relegation buffer for Tigers

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·14 de abril de 2025

Hull City 1-1 Coventry City: FLW report as Abu Kamara strike earns three-point relegation buffer for Tigers

FLW report from the MKM Stadium

Relegation-threatened Hull City earned a late point against play-off-chasing Coventry City in front of the Sky Sports cameras thanks to Abu Kamara's fifth goal of the season.

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The side with the worst home record in the Championship looked to be heading towards defeat for large proportions of the encounter, and that was only strengthened as Charlie Hughes turned a Matt Grimes effort into his own net just a minute into the second half.

However, Kamara, who has netted crucial equalisers against Leeds United and West Bromwich Albion this season, came up trumps in the latter stages after being sent on as a substitute by Ruben Selles, with his low effort deflecting past Brad Collins.

Hull City 1-1 Coventry City

It was Lampard's side who carved out the first chance of the contest on five minutes. A dangerous cross from Jay Dasilva was turned behind for a corner by Sean McLoughlin, with Jack Rudoni's set-piece met by the onrushing Haji Wright, who could only aim straight at Ivor Pandur to force an unorthodox save to deny the American.

Ellis Simms was then sent clear down the Hull right, with the Croatian keeper beating away a powerful close-range effort from the striker.

Hull's best moment of the early exchanges came in the 15th minute as Regan Slater found McLoughlin advancing down the left, with the Irishman flicking it onto Joao Pedro, who was unable to test Brad Collins from the narrowest of angles, before the following corner amounted to nothing for Selles' strugglers.

Midway through the half, Jack Rudoni picked out Tatsuhiro Sakamoto in space, with the Japanese able to feed the ball back to Wright, who brought the best out of Pandur from just inside the box, before the City keeper was on hand to deny Coventry's club-record signing once more as he looked to fire an effort across goal.

Kasey Palmer had two golden chances to break the deadlock against his former club on 38 minutes after Slater's square ball across the box, with the Jamaican seeing his first effort blocked by a combination of Joel Latibeaudiere and Liam Kitching and a second blocked by the former, with the Sky Blues defence eventually able to scramble the ball to safety.

If that was one particular moment to sum up the Tigers' woes in front of goal, their pattern of conceding early into the second period continued as Coventry flew out of the blocks, with the ball eventually finding Grimes, whose strike deflected in off Hughes after Pandur was left completely wrong-footed.

Selles' men were almost the masters of their downfall just six minutes later as Simms was left one-on-one with Pandur, who pulled off yet another strong save, before Wright somehow turned Kitching's flick-on from the resulting corner wide of the post.

Hughes would atone for his earlier mishap by denying the Sky Blues a chance to extend their lead on 61 minutes after neat link-up play between Milan Van Ewijk and Ben Sheaf just outside the area, with the Hull centre-back able to prevent the Dutchman's low ball from reaching Simms inside the six-yard box.

With 25 minutes to go, Hull would muster their first sign of a response to their setback, although experienced defender John Egan couldn't generate the required power or direction to trouble Brad Collins from Joe Gelhardt's free-kick.

Those who travelled from the West Midlands couldn't believe their side didn't put daylight between the two on the scoreboard with 70 minutes on the clock as Rudoni showed McLoughlin a clean pair of heels with Simms somehow unable to tap home a wicked delivery across the face of goal.

Kamara then kick-started a fast break for the men in Black and Amber as Gelhardt drifted away from Sheaf under pressure, with the ball eventually falling at the feet of the Tigers substitute, who saw a curling effort deflected behind.

Hull's lack of cutting edge was laid bare for all to see 15 minutes from time as Slater was afforded plenty of space to pick a teammate out inside the box, with captain Lewie Coyle firing high and wide to the frustration of at least 20,000 inside the MKM.

However, the Tigers would draw themselves level eight minutes from time as Kamara was picked out superbly by fellow substitute Nordin Amrabat, with the winger's fifth goal of the season deflecting in off Dasilva and squirming through Collins' body at the goalkeeper's near post.

The dying stages weren't without drama as Jamie Paterson played fellow Sky Blues substitute Norman Bassette free on the left flank, before Rudoni and Sakamoto played a neat interchange, with the latter seeing a fierce drive tipped over the crossbar two minutes into stoppage time.

Andrew Kitchen then called time on the clash, with Coventry still inside the play-offs with 63 points, whilst the Tigers have now given themselves a three-point cushion over Cardiff City in the relegation dogfight with four games remaining.