Hull City 0-0 Aston Villa: Premier League – as it happened

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Hull continued their unbeaten start to the season with a third successive clean sheet against a blunt Aston Villa 4 min: Hull settle into some possession. The place is bouncing. 2 min: Jackson heads wide! Early chance for Villa as Maatsen crosses from the left, Jackson rises between the Hull centre-backs and heads it back beyond the near post.

89 min: Chance for Hull! Thomas drives towards the edge of the box and finds McBurnie, who lays it off to Cho. The strike is low and Suzuki keeps it out.

88 min: McGinn’s delivery is poor and drifts to the back post where Tzolakis can pluck it out of the sky.

87 min: Hull are rock solid. Cho is providing fresh legs on the right wing. He bumps into Garnacho as Villa win a throw. McGinn suckers Herrington into conceding a free-kick on the edge of the area.

85 min: Abraham and Wan-Bissaka come on, replacing Jackson and Cash. There will be no debut for £47m signing Ibrahim Mbaye.

84 min: Emery loses his rag with Villa’s backroom staff when substitutes Tammy Abraham and Aaron Wan-Bissaka are not ready to come on with the ball out of play. It’s getting a bit tense.

82 min: Ruggeri wins a corner as his cross deflects behind. It’s worked into the box and falls for Mings, whose half-volley is blocked before it gets anywhere dangerous.

Hull hand a debut to Mohamed-Ali Cho and Jens-Hjertø-Dahl as Belloumi and Gourna-Douath make way.

80 min: McBurnie almost picks Barkley’s pocket in the Villa half but Emery’s team knock it around some more without looking very threatening.

78 min: Another spell of cautious Villa possession. Ruggeri and Garnacho looks a bit of an awkward combination down the left.

76 min: Emery turns to his bench for the first time. Alejandro Garnacho, centre-back Matteo Ruggeri and Brazilian winger Alysson are on. Hemmings, Maatsen and a very frustrated Buendía are off.

74 min: Suzuki’s ball into midfield is cut out by Slater on halfway but Belloumi gives it away. Kamara and Buendía combine well before Villa win a free-kick.

72 min: Another Hull change – Lucas Herrington comes on for Mendy on his 19th birthday. Can they keep a third clean sheet in a row? McBurnie does well to get contact on a long throw but no one is there for Hull to convert at the back post.

70 min: Thomas is playing down the middle for Hull, with McBurnie moving out wide on the left. Defensive duties are first and foremost for both for now.

68 min: A Buendía free-kick from deep is flicked away rather than on by a leaping Mings and Maatsen has to recycle the ball.

66 min: What a strike! Norton-Cuffy wins a corner. Belloumi takes it, gets it straight back and curls a left-footed shot that pings back off the crossbar at the far post. Just not enough dip.

More dip needed! Mohamed Belloumi’s shot beats Suzuki, but not the woodwork. Photograph: Craig Brough/Action Images/Reuters

64 min: Buendía turns well into space in the Hull half. He releases the ball to Jackson on the left but the Villa striker isn’t ready for it and Ajayi can mop up unchallenged.

Hull replace Stroud and Coyle with two new signings – winger Sorba Thomas from Stoke and wing-back Brooke Norton-Cuffy from Genoa.

62 min: Play stops for a moment as Maatsen takes a few sharp breaths after a ball in the groin. When it resumes, Giles drifts a cross into the box but Belloumi is flagged for offside.

60 min: Mendy takes a chance with a shove in the back of Cash in the Hull box. Cash went down easily but I’ve definitely seen them given.

58 min: Some nice footwork by Jackson on halfway sets Hemmings off down the left. Egan bounds across for Hull and takes man and ball with a hefty but fair sliding challenge. What a sight.

56 min: Cash wins a free-kick in his own half with a bit of an Ayling flop under the challenge of Stroud.

54 min: What a miss! Hemmings does superbly down the Villa left, breezing past Coyle and laying it on a plate for Buendía who, eight yards out, clears the crossbar by some distance. It’s bobbling a little bit, but that’s no excuse.

52 min: McBurnie gives Stroud an earful as the Swedish winger turns Cash but opts to fire into the side-netting instead of cutting it back. He will not be doing that again.

50 min: McBurnie leaves Kamara on the deck on halfway and releases Stroud down the Hull left. Stroud spots McBurnie arriving from deep and the striker’s ambitious first-time finish, with the ball coming across his body, fades further and further wide.

At the other end, Buendía and Jackson combine on the edge of the box. McGinn beats Tzolakis to the ball in the box but digs it up and other the bar. It’s a very good chance.

48 min: Jackson holds the ball up better this time and sends it inside to Kamara. Villa ponder about what to do next for a minute or so and Hull are happy to watch them. They are still yet to concede this season.

46 min: Jackson surrenders the ball meekly to Ajayi, who shields it out for a Hull goal-kick.

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