Hull earn draw with last kick in eight-goal thriller at Sunderland

Ozan Tufan secured a 3rd successive gully for Hull City successful melodramatic benignant by converting a punishment with the past footwear of the crippled successful a 4-4 gully astatine Sunderland

Ozan Tufan's last-gasp punishment earned Hull City a constituent and dented Sunderland's Championship play-off ambitions arsenic the sides shared an epic 4-4 gully astatine the Stadium of Light.

After Pierre Ekwah caught Hull's Regan Slater wrong the punishment country heavy into second-half stoppage time, Tufan courageously stepped up to people with the past footwear of a crippled that volition spell down arsenic 1 of the Championship's astir memorable.

Hull's hopes of ending their six-match winless distant tally came to beingness erstwhile they doubly took the lead, scoring the opener successful slick benignant erstwhile Tufan finished a flowing transition of play to springiness Leroy Rosenior's broadside an aboriginal advantage.

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Slater, who had acceptable up Tufan's opener, should person enactment City 2 up erstwhile helium blasted a glorious accidental consecutive astatine Anthony Patterson, and the midfielder was swiftly punished erstwhile Joe Gelhardt swept successful an equaliser from Sunderland's consequent attack.

Sunderland's persistent property paid disconnected erstwhile much erstwhile they again won possession successful a unsafe country a infinitesimal later, allowing Clarke to tee up Amad Diallo wrong the punishment country to marque it 2-1.

The accelerated flurry of goals continued arsenic Hull struck backmost done Allahyar Sayyadmanesh's ruthless finish, crashing a first-time changeable successful disconnected the crossbar from the rebound erstwhile Patterson's brave prevention from Dimitrios Pelkas' effort fell to him astatine a tricky angle.

Midfielder Slater atoned for his first-half wastefulness by holding disconnected Trai Hume, narrowly keeping the shot successful play connected the byline and cutting wrong to reconstruct City's pb with a fierce onslaught arsenic the scoring resumed 21 minutes aft the break.

Just erstwhile Hull looked connected people for a archetypal triumph successful 8 editions of the fixture successful the league, Sunderland won a punishment erstwhile Clarke was bundled to the crushed by Alfie Jones.

Diallo converted via goalkeeper Karl Darlow's fingertips, claiming his 11th extremity of the play to determination level with Charlton brace Jesurun Rak-Sakyi and Miles Leaburn arsenic the starring marksman aged nether 21 successful the English Football League.

Winger Clarke showed comparable composure to implicit an incisive determination with 9 minutes of regular clip remaining successful beforehand of an enthralled location crowd.

Sunderland would person scored a 5th but for Clarke swiping wildly erstwhile helium was acceptable up by Diallo, lone for Tufan to people his 2nd and nonstop Hull level connected points with 16th-placed Birmingham City, 8 points wide of the relegation zone.

Their portion successful a classical near Sunderland six points adrift of Blackburn Rovers, who inhabit the last play-off place, and person a nine-goal inferiority to Tony Mowbray's team.

Hull brag Liam Rosenior told BBC Radio Humberside:

"I'm mislaid for words. The archetypal 20-to-25 minutes was everything I privation to spot successful a squad of mine. Then we get truthful complacent and assured that we acquisition them 2 goals retired of perfectly nothing. We showed persistence and resilience to get backmost successful the crippled and went 3-2 up done an unbelievable extremity from Regan.

"This crippled astir apt sums up our play - it was obscurity adjacent a [Sunderland] penalty. Then we spell backmost connected the beforehand foot, springiness a inexpensive walk distant and, 3 passes aboriginal from a throw-in, it's successful our extremity and we're chasing the game.

"That's 1 of the astir enjoyable games I've been a portion of. Tony showed truthful overmuch people - conscionable earlier we took the penalty, helium said 'you don't merit to suffer the game.' Hopefully we bask ourselves with 3 points successful the container successful future."

Sunderland brag Tony Mowbray told BBC Radio Newcastle:

"It was a dilatory commencement from a fewer of the players. We had words astatine half-time to liven up and we were overmuch amended successful the 2nd half, erstwhile I can't truly retrieve them getting adjacent our goal.

"We are learning astatine the coalface arsenic we spell along. That's a harsh acquisition contiguous - for example, for Pierre to marque a tackle successful the container close astatine the death. Just basal up and marque the feline bash something, don't enactment a lazy limb out.

"We're playing against teams with overmuch much acquisition successful the league. For 20 minutes we looked similar we'd ne'er played together, but erstwhile we got it unneurotic it was a bully performance. There is tons to beryllium pleased astir and enactment on."