Hull City edged Coventry City 0:1 in the Premier League's second round of fixtures at the Ricoh Arena on Saturday. The visitors took all three points from a match where the hosts dominated possession without finding a way through.
Coventry controlled the early exchanges, yet Hull stayed compact and waited for their moment. Liam Millar broke the deadlock in the eighty-second minute, a goal that came after Coventry had grown increasingly desperate in the final third. By then the hosts were playing a man up but could not turn things around.
Coventry made several changes in search of an equaliser, bringing on Caleb Yirenkyi and Jack Rudoni in the seventy-first minute. Hull responded with Mohamed Belloumi in the eighty-third, while the yellow cards accumulated on both sides — five in total across the ninety minutes.
The statistics told a familiar story: Coventry held 69 per cent of the ball and registered 1.28 expected goals, yet their six shots on target yielded nothing. Hull managed 0.72 expected goals from just two shots on target, and one big chance was enough. They camped in the final third only when it mattered.
The result leaves Coventry at the foot of the table with two defeats from two games and zero points. Hull sit second with six points from two wins, and the gap between them is now eight points.
