Peterborough 0 Hull City 3 - Tyler Smith hailed by Shota Arveladze as Tigers down Grant McCann’s new club
Smith struck in the 25th minute at London Road as he tucked away a Brandon Fleming cross.
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Hide AdArveladze said: “Tyler has always trained hard when he has been out of the squad and worked for his chance. It was a massive goal he scored for us in a tough time after the run we’ve had. It gave him and all of us a lot of good feelings.”
Keane Lewis-Potter then took centre stage in the second period with a classy brace to seal City’s success as they snapped a run of six matches without victory.
He fired in his eighth goal of the campaign with a 20-yard blast six minutes after the restart and then struck again when slotting through the legs of keeper Steven Benda with 20 minutes to go.
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Hide Ad“Keane showed today how good he is. They were two different goals. He moved in so quick for the first one and then ran 40-50 yards for the second one and finished it,” said the City chief.
It was a second success in English football for McCann’s successor at Hull, who added: “The boys gave an absolutely fantastic reaction to the last game. It was a massive, massive three points.”
McCann saw his side drop to the bottom of the table after his first match in charge and said: “We gifted them all three goals, to be totally honest, by losing the ball. It was a really frustrating and disappointing result.”
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Hide AdPeterborough: Benda, Knight, Edwards, Kent, Ward, Norburn, Brown (Grant 65), Burrows (Coulson 60), Szmodics, Morton, Marriott (Jade-Jones 60). Unused substitutes: Clarke-Harris, Cornell, Mumba, Fuchs.
Hull: Ingram, Alfie Jones, McLoughlin, Greaves, Slater, Smallwood, Docherty (Huddlestone 84), Fleming, Honeyman (Walsh 46), Lewis-Potter,Smith (Wilks 84). Unused substitutes: Longman, Moncur, Bernard, Cartwright.
Referee: T Harrington (Cleveland).