Hull City 2-1 Cardiff City: Bluebirds cannot fight back again after early goals prove their undoing

Cardiff City fell to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Hull City after failing to claw their way back from a disastrous start at the MKM Stadium.

Two Hull goals inside the first 11 minutes - the first from Allahyar and the second from Lewie Coyle - gave Cardiff a mountain to climb in the Humberside sun. Despite a valiant second-half fightback, which yielded a number of chances and a headed goal for Aden Flint, they just didn't have it in them to produce two remarkable comebacks in as many matches.

Morison once again ripped up the team which came back to beat Reading last week, opting for seven changes. Most notably, Oliver Denham, the 19-year-old centre back, was brought in for his first Championship start. Uche Ikpeazu also had his first start in a Cardiff shirt, too.

Cardiff reverted to three-at-the-back again, but it all fell apart right at the start, just as it did against Reading six days before. This time, they were punished far more heavily.

An awful back pass from Mark McGuinness, who was also recalled to the starting lineup, just eight minutes into the match, presented Allahyar with a golden opportunity to round Dillon Phillips. The Hull man did exactly that and put the Tigers ahead. A horribly sloppy goal for Cardiff to concede.

But they had barely picked the ball out of their own net before Phillips had to go and grab it again.

A cross from Keane Lewis-Potter was cleared poorly by McGuinness and Cody Drameh and it allowed Regan Slater to pick the ball up on the edge of City's box before squaring it to Lewie Coyle. Coyle smacked it sweetly, first time, with his left foot and buried it into the bottom corner.

Cardiff were devoid of ideas or an attacking plan, really. The closest they came was on the