Match Of The Day A Few Quick Thoughts
Dan Tracey
April 23, 2017
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- It was the Match Of The Day reserve team last night as Dan Walker was joined by Kevin Kilbane and Trevor Sinclair
- With the list of fixtures it was perhaps not one to stay up for and better suited to Sunday morning viewing
- In the bid to beat the drop it is pretty much as you were with both Hull and Swansea both picking up vital wins yesterday
- Hull took full advantage of the fact that Watford are all but on the beach and did so in impressive fashion
- After going down to 10 men after a ludicrous decision by referee Bobby Madeley, the writing looked on the wall for Hull
- Oumar Niasse was sent off after a very innocuous tackle, the former Everton forward (I’ll use that terms very loosely) at first was going to complain at the apparent upcoming yellow card
- His face said it all when he was shown the red one in the first half
- But full credit to Hull as they showed more desire and fight then Walter Mazaari’s Watford and were able to match their 10 men against The Hornets’ 11
- Lazar Markovic opened the scoring at the second attempt after a well worked counter attacking move
- His original effort from Andrew Robertson’s cross cannoned back off the bar but he was on hand to stab home and put the home side ahead
- It would be two soon after when Sam Clucas scored a sumptuous strike from the edge of the box
- His first touch was class, but the finish was exquisite
- It was nothing short of what Hull deserved, while Watford are shown up for their lack of effort
- It was an all important win for Marco Silva’s men as Swansea keep the pressure on after a win at home to Stoke
- That was a first win in 7 for Paul Clement’s side and it keeps Swansea on Hull’s coat tails
- Fernando Llorente was criticised for his lack of movement last weekend in the defeat at Watford but he made it up for it yesterday after opening the scoring for The Swans
- The match would turn on it’s head within the space of 60 second half seconds
- Firstly Stoke were awarded a penalty after Xhedran Shaqiri was bundled over in the box
- It looked like Mark Hughes’s Stoke side were going to be allowed back into the game
- Step forward Marko Arnautovic, the Austria international blazed the ball high over the bar
- Swansea had a get out of jail free card
- And they were to rub salt in the wounds of Stoke, when they would go straight down the other end and double their advantage
- Tom Carroll opened his Swansea account with a strike from outside the box, it may have taken a deflection off of Joe Allen but Jack Butland who was returning from injury after a year out was helpless to stop it
- A big win for Swansea but they still continue to play catch up
- Bournemouth all but secured a third successive Premier League season with a comfortable win over Middlesbrough at The Vitality Stadium
- Middlesbrough are not relegated just yet but after that abject performance they are all but done
- It was a miserable afternoon as they went behind after just 90 seconds and the day would get much worse
- 2-0 down within the first 20 minutes and then they would be down to 10 men when Gaston Ramirez would be sent off for two bookable offences
- The first one was after a ludicrous dive, the second for a reckless slide. The decisions were all too easy for the referee to make
- That win sees Bournemouth sees surge up to 12th in the table, they are not at the 40 point marker but it will have to take a phenomenal collapse for them to get relegated now
- West Ham vs Everton. No, just no
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