🔗 Share this article Pedro Neto Scores Treble as The Blues Provide Liam Rosenior with Joyous Return to Hull City Amid freezing rain, snow, and a biting wind from the banks of the Humber Estuary, alongside a determined home side pushing hard for a top-flight place, this presented all the ingredients of a difficult night's task for the visitors. "We might have scored more but Hull are a good team and it was a difficult fixture; I’m delighted with the performance," the manager stated. "Hull City means a lot to me so it was nice to get a good reception from the fans of supporters. The application of the players was excellent." Liam Rosenior has this city close to his heart, considering part of his relatives hail from Hull and his successful period in management of the Championship club. His happy connection was extended with a magnificent performance from his squad, who ultimately sauntered into the fifth round of the FA Cup. Clinical Edge Secures Comprehensive Win Seventy-two hours removed from letting slip a 2-0 lead in the league, there was a hint of fragility about Chelsea going into this potentially tricky tie. The capacity Hull crowd evidently sensed it too, but Rosenior's men handled the task with ease. The manager rang the changes, making multiple of them to his starting lineup. The tie could and maybe should have been decided long before it eventually was, with both Estêvão Willian and Liam Delap at fault for spurning glorious chances to put Chelsea in front in the opening period. However, fortunately for the visitors, their Portuguese attacker was in a much more clinical frame of mind. He opened the deadlock with a marvellous long-range effort, which proved to be the catalyst for his team to assume command of proceedings. By full time, they had four, with the forward netting a trio of them for a superb hat-trick. The Forward's Response and Influence Hull displayed great spirit all game, but the clearer opportunities always fell Chelsea’s way. The winger should have opened the scoring when he rounded goalkeeper Dillon Phillips before inexplicably shooting over. Delap then had a similar horror incident in front of goal against his old team. He deflected a the goalkeeper's kick which bounced back from the bar, and Delap started to celebrate thinking the ball had crossed the line. It hadn’t, and by the time he understood, Hull's backline had reacted to clear the danger. Delap had his head in his hands after that moment, but he was hugely instrumental from that point onward, registering 3 key passes. The first was for the opening goal as his pass teed up Neto to score from outside the box. Shortly after the second half began, it was two as the forward's corner went directly in under the keeper's legs. Tie Put Beyond Doubt and Attention Shifts Seven minutes after Neto’s second goal, the tie was put beyond doubt as a dazzling run from the forward laid on his teammate to tap into an unguarded goal. The hat-trick hero then completed his hat-trick as Delap again played the decisive ball for the attacker to coolly slot by a stranded Phillips. At that point, the effort Hull had put in in the opening half-hour had long since forgotten. Their focus must now return to achieving a return to the top division under their manager, who rested several first-choice players with that aim in mind. "I think we earned at least one goal but if we play like this we will be in a very good situation in the Championship," he said. "Never surrender, maybe in the upcoming games this can be a good lesson of how we must play." There was plenty of endeavour to the end, and they nearly claimed a consolation when Lewis Koumas struck a the upright in stoppage time. But this was the Blues' evening, and another positive step forward for their new head coach at a stadium he knows intimately. FA Cup History Are Promising The result resulted in an ultimately straightforward evening’s performance, and the FA Cup-shaped omens are positive from here for the winners. They have played Hull on three previous occasions in this tournament in the last decade and every single time, they have gone on to reach the final. Much still work in that regard, but this was another significant tick for Rosenior.