WATCH: Xherdan Shaqiri scores a stunning brace in Stoke's 2-0 win at Hull City
Sunday 23 October 2016 00:09, UK
Hull City were stunning by two sumptuous strikes by Stoke City maverick Xherdan Shaqiri, who turned on the style in the 2-0 win.
Stoke opened the scoring on 26 minutes when Shaqiri was given too much space to cut inside onto his left foot, punishing the hosts with a peach of a strike that curled into the top corner.
The Potters continued to dominate after taking the lead and could have gone further ahead, with Marko Arnautovic and Joe Allen both threatening, but an impotent Hull managed to restrict the lead to just the single goal by half-time.
However, it took just five minutes of the second half for Stoke to double their lead, with Shaqiri again the man to do it with a sumptuous free-kick that curved over the wall and nestled low in the bottom corner of David Marshall's net.
A tactical switch from Hull saw them gain some sort of foothold in the game after the hour mark, but it was too little too late and Stoke left the KCOM Stadium with all three points.
