Growing tensions, Hull City manager Tim Walter complained a key incident that gave Sheffield Wednesday the penalty and put an end to their 558 days without a goal celebration for the Owls, meanwhile Hull home fans were chanting ‘’Walter out’’ and ‘’You don’t know what you’re doing’’ to their manager. The Tigers’ manager watched on Wednesday to see them emerge 2-0 winners – the only team to record more than one win on the MKM Stadium this campaign – make it to Walter’s worry list.
Although creating a 2.30 xG to Hull’s 1.00, the statistics showed that Wednesday created better chances for the goal with having 16 shots on target and 28 touches in the Box compared to Hull nine shots and 15 entries in the Box. However, Walter defended that his side had the better opportunities to score and said, “After the first ten minutes we were struggling to settle and looked like the better team and had the best chances. Yes we struck the timber and had chances, but luck was not on our side today. That dampened our morale, and it did something to us. After having regained the initiative after conceding the penalty, we saw the culminating point of failure resulting from poor penetration skills in situations of facing a well-organized defense line.
The breakthrough came in the second half when Tigers’ forward Joao Pedro handled Shea Charles in the box and Wednesday was given their first ever penalty so late as December 2023. Referee Oliver Langford waved for a penalty and despite him barely protesting, Walter was argumentative, saying, “It was not a penalty.” This is a familiar lament which we get on the receiving end of over and over again.
As a result of this win, Sheffield Wednesday was to move to the 12th place in the Championship log as more games were expected in the week while Hull City continued to search for their first league win in nine games was surely to cause more headache to their boss Walter.