Hull City 2-0 Watford
Second half goals from Lazar Markovic and Sam Clucas stunned Watford to keep Marco Silva’s fighting Tigers out of the bottom three.
And they had to do it with ten men when Everton loanee Oumar Niasse was dismissed in the first half for a high tackle. Against all betting odds Hull not only hung on, but took the game to the mid-table Hornets to give themselves a real chance of survival with four crucial football games to go.
That outcome looked so unlikely at the KCOM when Niasse went in high, with studs up, on M’Baye Niang to see referee Bobby Madley waving a red card in the 25th minute. If you’d have offered Hull a point they would have snapped your hand off.
But Watford just didn’t want to take advantage and by half time the home crowd started to believe they could escape with something. Marco Silva has overseen a fantastic recovery in Hull since his arrival at Christmas, particularly at home and whatever he said at half time worked wonders as the Tigers went on the attack.
First Markovic headed home on 62 minutes to send the KCOM wild, and the home side didn’t wait to see if they could hold out. Less than ten minutes later they won it with an absolute beauty. As Watford cleared a corner to Clucas, some thirty yards out, he unleashed an unstoppable volley into the net.
So four games to go, and two points clear of the drop. It’s going down to the wire but the Tigers are ready for the battle.
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