Manchester City 1 Hull City 0: Tiger fall behind at the break
The Tigers could consider themselves unfortunate to be behind despite the hosts having plenty of possession.
Marco Silva’s side are set up to hit teams on the counter attack and they threatened to do that plenty of times either side of the half’s only goal.
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Hide AdThe breakthrough came just after the hour and it was wholly avoidable from a City perspective.
First, Jesus Navas was given far too much time wide on the right and then, when his cross evaded Sergio Aguero, Elmohamady stuck out a leg and the ball cannoned into the net.
Up to that point, Hull had restricted their hosts to a long range efforts and set-pieces - the best of which saw Yaya Toure bring a flying save from Eldin Jakupovic.
The Tigers had a great chance to equalise moments after the opener but Oumar Niasse made a total hash of trying to finish from five yards after Evandro had diverted a Kamil Grosicki cross into his path.