Hull City retained the Raich Carter Trophy after a 1-1 draw against Sunderland.
Ozan Tufan’s finish cancelled out Ross Stewart’s opener as Sunderland finished the game with 10-men after Elliot Embleton’s dismissal.
Liam Rosenior made two changes to his starting XI from the goalless draw against Watford. Captain Lewie Coyle and forward Óscar Estupiñán returned to the team in place of Alfie Jones and the injured Dimitrios Pelkas.
Prior to the game, both teams took part in a minute’s applause to celebrate the life of former chairman Assem Allam.
The first chance of the game fell to the Tigers as Jean Michaël Seri’s cross-come-shot was pushed away by Sunderland goalkeeper Anthony Patterson, with Estupiñán narrowly missing the chance to divert the original delivery goal wards.
Minutes later, Ryan Longman searched for Coyle at the back post, with his cross slightly being overhit while Sean McLoughlin blocked a delivery from Lynden Gooch that was aimed for Ellis Simms on the Hull City penalty spot.
Estupiñán then glanced a header wide from Coyle’s floated delivery before pinball around the Sunderland penalty almost resulted in a City opener, but Sunderland cleared their lines. From the resulting short corner routine, Estupiñán’s looped header hit the roof of the net. At the other end, Ellis Simms blazed his strike over Matt Ingram’s crossbar before Amad Diallo fired wide with his effort from distance.
In first-half injury-time, Longman saw his powerful shot blocked by Daniel Ballard as the first half ended goalless.
The Tigers were awarded a penalty three minutes into the second half as Regan Slater was fouled in the area. Estupiñán stepped up but placed his penalty to the wrong side of Patterson’s left-hand post, with Sunderland shot-stopper diving the correct way.
The visitors were reduced to 10-men as Embleton was sent off just before the hour mark before the Tigers fired wide from a corner minutes later. Coyle almost picked out the run of Slater on the 67th minute, but the attacking midfielder could not connect with the right-footed delivery.
City kept pushing for the opening goal as Estupiñán headed wide from Longman’s teasing cross before the Black Cats broke the deadlock on the 74th minute. A long ball from the defence played substitute Stewart through on goal, who clinically finished his one-on-one effort past the onrushing Ingram.
Slater searched for an equaliser, but his attempt deflected off-target while McLoughlin tried his luck from distance. The Tigers then equalised on the 82nd minute as a clever pass from Woods found Tufan who confidently placed his finish past Patterson.
Harvey Vale looked to put the Tigers in-front late-on, but his flicked finish went wide of the goal before Slater tested Patterson in stoppage-time.
Hull City (4-2-3-1): Ingram; Christie, McLoughlin (Vale 81’), Greaves, Coyle © (Sinik 75’); Seri, Woods; T. Smith (Tufan 71’), Slater, Longman; Estupiñán.
Subs not used: Lo-Tutala, Elder, Figueiredo, Docherty.
Sunderland (4-2-3-1): Patterson; Gooch, O’Nien, Batth (Ballard 14’), Alese (Cirkin 60’); Evans ©, Neil; Diallo (Ba 85’), Embleton, Clarke (Roberts 61’); Simms (Stewart 60’).
Subs not used: Bass, Bennette.
Attendance: 18,120
