Football Review | Hull City 0 - 4 Chelsea

It was a fairly easy Friday 13th for Chelsea

They progressed into the 5th round of the FA Cup with a comfortable win over Championship side Hull City

Author | Lewis W

Stadium | MKM Stadium

Pedro Neto struck a hat-trick as Chelsea eased into the FA Cup fifth round with a comfortable victory over Championship side Hull City.

Returning to the snow-dusted MKM Stadium, Blues head coach Liam Rosenior, a former Hull player and manager, watched his side dominate long before the breakthrough arrived five minutes before the interval. A slick exchange of passes ended with Neto bending a left-footed effort from just outside the area into the corner.

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The Portugal international doubled Chelsea’s advantage shortly after the restart in unusual fashion. His in-swinging corner drifted beyond everyone and bounced through the legs of Hull goalkeeper Dillon Phillips.

It turned into a comfortable evening for Chelsea

Chelsea extended their lead on 59 minutes when Brazilian teenager Estevao made amends for an earlier miss, finishing calmly after neat hold-up play from Liam Delap, who spent a season on loan at Hull during Rosenior’s tenure. Neto completed his treble 19 minutes from time, steering a composed finish into the bottom corner as Delap claimed his third assist.

Despite the margin of victory, the visitors might have been further ahead by the interval. Alejandro Garnacho was denied by a sharp save from Phillips after being picked out by Moises Caicedo, with John Egan blocking the rebound. Estevao then raced on to a long ball from Mamadou Sarr, rounded the goalkeeper and blazed over an open goal.

Phillips later flirted with disaster when his attempted clearance was charged down by Delap, the ball looping on to the crossbar and down on the line. Delap hesitated, convinced it had crossed, allowing the goalkeeper to recover and make a crucial block from the rebound.

Moments before the break, a message was displayed on the big screen and read out over the tannoy warning against discriminatory chanting inside the stadium.

Hull, who sit fourth in the Championship and are pushing for promotion, almost found a consolation late on when Lewis Koumas struck the post.

Chelsea, eight-time winners of the competition and currently fifth in the Premier League, will learn their fifth-round opponents after Macclesfield host Brentford on Monday night.