By Hull City

Second-half goals from Matty Jacob and Mason Burstow earned Hull City a comfortable friendly win over Corendon Alanyaspor at Gain Park Stadium.

Jacob fired home Gustavo Puerta’s pull-back six minutes into the second half before Mason Burstow touched in Xavier Simons’ cross-shot six minutes from time to round off the Tigers’ trip to Türkiye.

In a one-sided opening 45, City almost scored inside four minutes when Regan Slater’s centre was helped on by Puerta for João Pedro, whose close-range header was impressively kept out by Mert Bayram.

Lewie Coyle’s searching pass was expertly taken down by Slater with Bayram advancing but his hooked ball towards Pedro, who would have had a tap-in, was cut out by a defender.

From the corner, Coyle lifted a cross to the back post which Charlie Hughes met on the half-volley but Pedro, on the ground, was unable to divert the ball home.

Bayram’s mistake playing out from the back almost gifted Gustavo Puerta a goal but the goalkeeper atoned for his error by smothering the Bayer Leverkusen loanee’s effort.

On 21 minutes, Nuno Lima’s last-ditch challenge denied Pedro as he looked to round Bayram after latching onto Kamara’s through ball and Hughes’ header from Puerta’s deep corner was held by Bayram.

The Tigers continued to be the aggressors, Kamara drilling in a teasing cross that was narrowly out of Puerta’s reach and Pedro hitting a shot on the turn that flew over the bar.

A clear-cut chance went begging on the cusp of half-time as Puerta’s precise cross picked out Pedro unmarked six yards out but the experienced forward nodded wide.

Only Puerta and Kamara returned for the second half but the Tigers remained the dominant force, Marvin Mehlem’s corner headed back across by Burstow and glanced wide by Finley Burns.

City opened the scoring on 51 minutes when Mehlem’s short corner to Kamara was worked to Puerta and his pull-back was fired first time by Jacob into the roof of the net.

There were opportunities to go further ahead; first, Kamara’s cross found its way to Burstow, whose left-footed drive was brilliantly repelled by the legs of sub keeper Yusuf Karagöz.

Burstow’s right-wing cross was then met by Chris Bedia in the middle but he guided his side-footed shot agonisingly wide of the far post.

Jacob’s sloppy back-pass presented Serdar Dursun with a clear sight of goal on 75 minutes but Burns spared his blushes by making a terrific goal-saving block on the line.

Jacob played his part in City’s second goal six minutes from time, delivering a cross from the byline that was collected by Simons and drilled across for Burstow to touch home.

There was almost time for a spectacular third when Mohamed Belloumi jinked down the right before unleashing a searing shot from 20 yards that cannoned off the top of the bar.

 

Hull City: Rushworth (Racioppi 46’); Coyle © (Drameh 46’), Jones (Burns 46’), Hughes (McLoughlin 46’), Giles (Jacob 46’); Alzate (Simons 46’), Slater (Mehlem 46’ (Belloumi 84’)), Puerta (Tinsdale 68’); Jarvis (Burstow 46’), Pedro (Bedia 46’ (Sinik 84')), Kamara (Sellars-Fleming 68’).