in Reserves!

By Tiger Tim
October 1 2008

Hull took on Man City reserves last night and went down 4-1 after leading 1-0 at half time.Bryan Hughes and Richard Garcia, who both made substitute appearances in the 2-1 win at Arsenal were included in the side, as were Dean Windass and Caleb Folan as City fielded their strongest line up of the season so far. Richard Garcia gave Hull the lead on 9 minutes with a header. IT was all Hull in the 1st half but they couldn't add to their lead. Man city equalized just after the break when a corner from the right found its way to James Poole. The tigers almost regained the lead when Matt Plummer met Hughes' corner but his header hit the crossbar and bounced down on the line beforethe Man City keeper pounced on the loose ball.


Man City took the lead on 66 minutes when a bouncing ball beat the Tigers defence and Ball sped away to fire a low shot past Warner and into the bottom corner.The visitors extended their lead on 85 minutes when they worked a short corner and Paul Marshall drilled a left foot strike into the bottom corner from the edge of the box.

They got their 4th goal in the final minute  when another slick passing move ended with Daly firing in via Warner's left hand post.

Hull City: Tony Warner, Nathan Doyle, Nick McNamara (Bill Law 84), John Welsh, Matt Plummer, Steve Gardner, Bryan Hughes, Will Atkinson, Dean Windass, Caleb Folan (Jamie Devitt 74), Richard Garcia (Ryan Kendall 74).

Subs not used: Mark Oxley, James Bennett.

Manchester City: Tobias Johansen, Javan Vidal (Curtis Obeng 46), Ben Morris, Ben Mee, Clayton McDonald, Adam Clayton, Vladimir Weiss (Angelos Tsiaklis 46), Paul Marshall (Greg Cunningham 88), David Ball, Ian Daly, James Poole.

Subs not used: Joe Clegg, Chris Ramsey.