HAPPY WITH A POINT

The Hull City manager Steve Bruce has said that he is happy with the performance of his players despite the 1-1 draw at Peterborough United during the weekend. Hull City came into the encounter as one of the teams chasing the automatic promotion spots. They have been in excellent form over the last couple of months, which helped them close the gap on leaders Cardiff City. However, the team has been suffering in terms of form of late. They have managed just one victory in the last five matches, and the lack of the winning run continued after the 1-1 draw with Peterborough.

It was an extremely disappointing result for Hull City considering the fact that Peterborough were in the relegation zone. This has also meant that Cardiff City have been able to open a 10 point advantage, while Hull City have also been overtaken by Leicester City in the table. Hull managed to open the scoring through an own goal from Newell in the 33rd minute. Even though they were unable to double their advantage, they looked on course for three points. However, McCann scored a penalty in the 79th minute to equalise for Peterborough and it remained the way till the full-time whistle.

“You’re always disappointed to be pegged back in the final few minutes of a match, but in all truth I don’t think we deserved anything more than a point. We gave away a soft penalty which I have absolutely no complaints about, but I can’t be too disappointed to be sat third in the league with only goal difference keeping us out of the automatic promotion places. Any footballer would have struggled to play on a slippy surface where the ball was jumping around all over the place,” said Bruce referring to the tough conditions.