'A clean sheet gives us something to take into the next game'

PENALTY HERO IVOR PANDUR SUMS UP WHAT IT MEANS TO HIS SIDE

- By JAMES SMAILES

IT was hard to tell which pleased Hull City head coach Sergej Jakirovic more on Wednesday night, the three points or the fact his side kept a clean sheet. Part relieved, part delighted by the performance, Jakirovic said his side were “dying for a clean sheet” as the second most leaky defence in the Championship got some well earned luck to keep out Wrexham in a 2-0 victory.

A big part of that shut out was the penalty-saving heroics of goal-keper Ivan Pandur, who has had the unfortunate responsibility of picking the ball out of the back of the net with too much regularity of late. The 25-year-old Croatian guessed correctly to palm away Kieffer Moore’s penalty on what was an otherwise relatively quiet night for the goalkeeper, much to his delight.