Three points gained up north, one of the better performances this season and Tottenham go bottom of the league. Not a bad Saturday by my reckoning. It could’ve been better though. I checked the scores earlier in the day, Chelsea were 1-0 down to Stoke, United we’re being held by Bolton and Sunderland had the lead over Aston Villa. However by the time our game had kicked off, Chelsea had completed a 2-1 comeback, United got a late winner at Bolton and Aston Villa somewhat controversially came back to beat Sunderland. Some teams just have so much luck.

So it turned out to be a must win at the KC Stadium. It took a while for the game to get going, the only incident in the first half an hour was a van Persie free kick in the 12th minute which was hit low and just went past the post.

Our fortunes suddenly changed half an hour in. We won a free kick to the right of the box, which van Persie stepped up to. It was in a position were a cross or shot was on, if he were to shoot it would have to be some effort. There’s no doubting Robin’s free kick ability though and he smashed it curling into the far top corner. The ‘keeper got a great touch on it to divert it onto the crossbar. Djourou was nearly there to tap in the rebound but he was tackled. What a free kick though – if that went in it would’ve certainly been one of his best.

That chance lifted us and we really turned the pressure on and a couple of minutes later we had the lead.

It came from a van Persie corner from the right. It was a great ball in towards the back post and Adebayor leapt and met it with a looping header across goal into the inner side netting. An unstoppable set piece, great work from both our strikers there who after that goal were equal on 12 goals this season.

We enjoyed having the lead early in the game for once and it allowed us to play our football. Hull just couldn’t do anything and when we had the ball we looked dangerous.

Eboue had a great chance nine minutes from the break when Adebayor squared the ball after a great passing move but he fluffed it at the far post. In the end we went into half time 1-0 up and in a strong position. It could’ve been more but at this point I was just happy to be leading at the break for once.

We came out in the second half and kept the pace up. All we had to do was play out the rest of the game at our pace, and add a couple more goals.

Well that didn’t happen, although we were on top and were looking to extend the lead we still allowed Hull back in it in the 65th minute. Bernard Mendy was out on the right and Gael Clichy backed off and allowed the cross to come in which met Cousin at the near post who headed home. Good goal by Hull but a bad piece of defending from us, Cousin was not marked; he managed to get between Toure and Djourou. However, they might’ve been expecting Clichy to cut the cross out but instead of challenging Mendy he backed off in fear that he might get passed him. A poor piece of defending from Clichy and not the first this season. I’m keeping the faith though.

So we found ourselves chasing the game again after letting them back in it. Bendtner came on to form a 4-3-3; he replaced Eboue who had another bad game. After a series of decent games he goes back to his normal clown-like self. He was diving, complaining, not chasing down balls and when I saw Bendtner coming on there was only one man I knew who would be coming off. I sometimes feel sorry for him that he’s always subbed off when we have to chase the game but yesterday he can only have himself to blame.

We were putting the pressure on Hull and searching for that important goal. I was getting frustrated but for some reason I thought we would manage to score – just as we did against Bolton.

And in the 83rd minute, we took the lead again. van Persie saw Nasri open to the left of the box and put him in, Samir took a touch and finished well with a left foot shot low into the far bottom corner. A well taken goal, a lot of players would’ve panicked in that position but he showed his maturity.

Surely the game was ours now but with the way we’ve been leaking goals recently I wasn’t too sure. With Hull having to come out and attack now I thought our best chance of defense was attack.

We confirmed the three points and made it 3-1 with four minutes to go. It was a nice one-two between Bendtner and van Persie against the thin Hull defense who had been caught on the break and Bendtner made it two goals in two substitute appearances.

He nearly got his second of the game in injury time when his header came crushing off the post. Clichy was on his own down the left and either put an amazing or lucky cross in the fell right onto Bendtner’s head at the near post but unfortunately he couldn’t beat the woodwork.

So in the end it finished 3-1 and apart from conceding that silly goal it was a decent performance. We showed glimpses of our full potential. Scoring first and early on really helped us and allowed us to play the football we wanted. More early goals please.

Next up it’s Cardiff in the FA Cup, build up to that later in the week. Tomorrow, back to the transfer madness. There’s a little bit to catch up on but I’ll save it all for then.

Thanks for reading.