Rate the Hull City players after convincing win over Reading

Reading were assured of Sky Bet Championship football for next season despite suffering a comprehensive 3-0 defeat at Hull City. With Peterborough losing at home to Nottingham Forest, Paul Ince’s side are now guaranteed second-tier football for another campaign.

Celebrations from Royals fans were tempered, though, as two goals from Keane Lewis-Potter and an Alfie Jones tap-in consigned the visitors to a humbling defeat. Reading have had an awful season, with a six-point reduction not helping their cause.

But this performance at the MKM Stadium, against a club with nothing to play for and marking time ahead of a reported big summer spending splurge, further highlighted the demanding job of rebuilding an ineffectual squad.

In keeping with the rest of the game, the hosts had a lot more of the football early on, but they created very few chances during a pedestrian start from both sides. Richie Smallwood’s header over the crossbar off George Honeyman’s free-kick was as good as it got before the half-hour mark.

Honeyman’s reliable set-pieces, this time from a corner, also partially threatened Reading’s defence, but Tigers centre-back Jacob Greaves misjudged the flight of the ball with a wayward header. Reading had their moments, especially on City’s right flank, but they lacked the nous to give goalkeeper Nathan Baxter any semblance of a fright.

That was evidenced after 35 minutes when Josh Laurent, afforded too much space off Junior Hoilett’s smart cross, tamely headed into Baxter’s hands from the edge of the six-yard box. Just when Ince might have expected his players to have gained motivation from that neat piece of play, Shota Arveladze's men scored five minutes later. Honeyman nicked the ball off Tom Dele-Bashiru in a