Hull City 2 - 3 Plymouth Argyle

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Saturday Aug 11 2007 03:00

Despite taking early lead Hull City crashed to a 3-2 home defeat on the opening day of the season against a resilient Plymouth Argyle side.

Hull opened the scoring on four minutes as Nick Barmby raced in on goal and fired a right-footed effort against the inside of the post, with the rebound landing at the feet of Dean Windass who slotted the ball into the net from six yards past the stranded Romain Larrieu.

The visitors equalised on 15 minutes as the ball came to David Norris midway in the Hull half and the Plymouth man ran 15 yards and fired in a shot from the edge of the box which flew into the corner of the net past Boaz Myhill.

Hull should have retaken the lead in the closing stages of the half as Sam Ricketts made a space for himself inside the box and struck a right-footed shot which keeper Larrieu parried right in front of Dean Marney.

He fired the ball right-footed from close range, but Larrieu managed to stretch and palm the ball away allowing his defence to clear the danger.

Plymouth were the team to take the lead however as on the stroke of half-time Gary Sawyer floated a ball in from the left and Rory Fallon rose to flick the ball past Myhill with a neat header from six yards.

Three minutes into the second half Hull were awarded a penalty as Peter Halmosi was adjudged to have brought down Bryan Hughes inside the box.

Windass took the penalty but keeper Larrieu was equal to it as he managed to parry the ball away, the rebound fell to Marney, however, and the Hull man put it in the back of the net, left-footed from close range.

Plymouth came close to restoring their lead soon after as Fallon found himself in space inside the box and curled in a right-footed effort from ten yards, but Myhlll did well to leap to his left and turn the ball round the post.

Plymouth took all three points on 81 minutes as substitute Sylvan Ebanks-Blake raced in on goal and struck a blistering right-footed effort past Myhill from just inside the box.

  • 90
    The ref has blown his whistle for full time.
  • 90
    Peter Halmosi is replaced by Lee Hodges.
  • 81
    Goal!! Sylvan Ebanks-Blake scores for Plymouth.
  • 79
    Plymouth are replacing Rory Fallon with Nick Chadwick.
  • 79
    Dean Windass is being taken off, Michael Bridges has come on in his place.
  • 75
    Plymouth are replacing Barry Hayles with Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
  • 72
    Hull City are replacing Nicky Barmby with Stephen McPhee.
  • 64
    Bryan Hughes is being taken off, David Livermore has come on in his place.
  • 56
    The referee has booked Dean Windass.
  • 49
    Goal!! Hull City have scored with Dean Marney putting it in the back of the net.
  • 47
    Peter Halmosi is booked for unsporting behaviour.
  • 46
    The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 2.
  • 45
    Half time whistle is blown by G Laws
  • 45
    Goal!! Rory Fallon scores for Plymouth.
  • 45
    Damien Delaney is booked for dissent.
  • 34
    Nicky Barmby goes into the referees book for unsporting behaviour.
  • 15
    Goal!! Plymouth have scored with David Norris putting it in the back of the net.
  • 3
    Goal!! Hull City have scored with Dean Windass putting it in the back of the net.
  • 0
    It's 3pm on Saturday, August 11th, the match has kicked off.

Statistics

Hull City
Shots on target 7
Shots off target 3
Shots off bar/post 1
Fouls 20
Offsides 7
Corners 0

Plymouth Argyle
Shots on target 8
Shots off target 5
Shots off bar/post 0
Fouls 14
Offsides 3
Corners 1

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