Hull City vs Swansea City. The FA Cup Third Round.
MKM Stadium.
Saturday 7 January 2017 18:08, UK
Abel Hernandez and local boy Josh Tymon struck late on to give Hull's new head coach Marco Silva a winning start against Swansea in the third round of the FA Cup.
Substitute Hernandez marked his first appearance since being sidelined by a hamstring injury in early November with a 78th-minute opener.
Teenager Tymon then clinched a 2-0 win by scoring his first senior goal with virtually the last kick, a minute after stepping off the bench.
Former Sporting Lisbon and Olympiacos head coach Silva, appointed as Mike Phelan's replacement on Thursday, was rewarded by three of his substitutes - Shaun Maloney assisted both goals - while Paul Clement's first game in charge of Swansea ended in defeat.
The game was played out in front of a paltry crowd of 6,608 due to a pre-planned boycott by Hull fans in protest against club owners, the Allam family.
Sam Clucas headed narrowly wide for Hull early on before Jake Livermore just failed to get on the end of Robert Snodgrass's excellent cross at the back post.
Eldin Jakupovic, Hull's EFL Cup penalty shoot-out hero against Newcastle in November and back in goal for David Marshall, kept out Swansea's best chance before the break when he brilliantly blocked Ki Sung-Yueng's volley following Borja Baston's flick-on.
Hull went closest through Clucas in the first period when his well-struck volley was kept out in similar fashion by Kristoffer Nordfeldt, in for Lukasz Fabianski.
Swansea skipper Jack Cork's timely block soon after the restart prevented Clucas from giving Hull the lead and Jakupovic again denied Ki before Leroy Fer fired wide.
Jakupovic's superb full-length save kept out Nathan Dyer's effort, but then Hull enjoyed their best spell just before the hour mark.
Snodgrass headed powerfully over then curled a shot just wide after being played in by Markus Henriksen.
Hernandez received a warm welcome when he replaced Henriksen but Hull were dealt a blow when skipper Michael Dawson was forced off to add to their injury woes in defence.
Ki's brilliant shot on the turn forced Jakupovic into another superb save as the goalkeeper pushed the ball on to a post and that was a clear turning point as Hernandez then broke the deadlock.
Maloney, who had replaced Dawson, did well to cut the ball back from the goal line and the striker swooped to turn the ball home from six yards.
Swansea went close to equalising when substitute Fernando Llorente's header from Sigurdsson's cross was superbly saved again by Jakupovic.
But 17-year-old Tymon had the final word, racing into the area from the left to fire a thumping low shot beyond Nordfeldt and in off a post.
