Hull City vs. West Ham United

The visitors were 2-0 up after 11 minutes thanks to goals from Guillermo Franco and Jack Collison but Hull came back and were amazingly 3-2 up at half-time thanks to a deflected free-kick and penalty from Jimmy Bullard and a Kamil Zayatte strike. But West Ham claimed a draw through Manuel da Costa after Bernard Mendy was sent off.

The visitors broke the deadlock on five minutes as a Junior Stanislas corner found the head of Franco, who made no mistake from close range to register his second goal of the season.

Gianfranco Zola's men were then 2-0 up on 11 minutes as Franco turned provider with a curling cross from the right onto the head of Collison, whose looping effort from 12 yards dipped over the stranded Matt Duke and into the back of the net.

Bullard, though, began the recovery in the 27th minute when his free kick bounced through the defensive wall before Carlton Cole deflected it over his own goalkeeper Robert Green for 2-1. If Hull's defending was poor, West Ham proved they could do anything just as lamentable when Stephen Hunt's deep free kick from the right reached Kamil Zayatte who gleefully volleyed the equaliser from close range and totally unmarked.

Then, to cap a frantic first half, Phil Brown's men were awarded a penalty in first-half stoppage time when Julien Faubert was adjudged to have pushed Craig Fagan just inside the box. Bullard then stepped up to slam the ball home and send his side into a 3-2 lead at half time.

Hull were down to ten men on 53 minutes when Mendy was adjudged to have been the last man after scything down Parker on the edge of the box, leaving referee Mark Clattenburg no choice but to send off the French right-back.

Hull might have hung on but more careless defending from a corner allowed Manuel da Costa to sweep the loose ball past Duke and salvage a point apiece that neither side really wanted in this relegation contest.