Tigers strike to end curse of the Canaries

GELHARDT AND GYABI ON TARGET AS CITY MAKE IT SIX UNBEATEN AT STRUGGLING NORWICH'S EXPENSE

- By BARRY COOPER

Darko Gyabi savours adding the second goal

(STEPHEN POND/GETTY IMAGES)

A second-half masterclass from Hull City saw them end their long wait for a win at Norwich City with two goals and a third clean sheet of the season to beat the struggling Canaries.

The Tigers were awful in the first half, as passive as they've been in a game all season, but fortunately the hosts couldn’t find the breakthrough their dominance deserved, and as so often happens in football were punished.

Four minutes into the second period Matt Crooks freed Joe Gelhardt who had plenty to do, but guided a shot into the bottom corner to make it four in four for him.

In the closing stages, with City in control, they finally killed it off when Darko Gyabi stepped off the bench to turn it at the back post at the second attempt, and seal a first Carrow Road success since 2010, and just a third since the early 1970s.

Jakirovic made two changes from the side that dropped two late points against Charlton Athletic last weekend, with Joel Ndala returning to the starting XI for the first time since the defeat to Bristol City back in August, replacing Semi Ajayi, who was rested ahead of two games in the next week.