Plenty of questions over City

BUT BELLOUMI'S A POSITIVE

- By BARRY COOPER

Hull City’s early-season positivity balloon was well and truly popped on Saturday with a 3-0 home thumping by Blackburn Rovers, who took full advantage of the Tigers’ struggles.

Without some key players and with a virus sweeping through the camp earlier in the week, City suffered a first defeat of the season in front of their own supporters, as Sergej Jakirovic’s side failed to back up Sunday's home success against Oxford United.

Attention now turns quickly to Saturday's visit to Ashton Gate in the final outing before the international break, though there remain plenty of questions going into the last week of the transfer window.

Here's a look at the key talking points from a disappointing afternoon....

What to take?

First things first, City were awful, almost from start to finish, all over the pitch.

From back to front, they were second best everywhere.

Aside from a short spell about 15 minutes in when Yuri Ribiero almost headed his own net, and Oli McBurnie and Joel Ndala both saw efforts well saved; that was as good as it got.

Those were the only two efforts on target, and shortly after that, Rovers assumed control, and once they took the lead, there seemed to be no way back. The two goals at the start of the second half killed any faint hope.