Kamara, 21, scored twice to get off the mark and force a brilliant 3-3 draw against Championship leaders Leeds United – just a day after having to apologise to his own club’s fans
Kamara, 21, scored twice to get off the mark and force a brilliant 3-3 draw against Championship leaders Leeds United – just a day after having to apologise to his own club’s fans Kamara, 21, scored twice to get off the mark and force a brilliant 3-3 draw against Championship leaders Leeds United – just a day after having to apologise to his own club’s fans
Two-goal Abu Kamara apologised in the best way possible with a superb late volley that stunned leaders Leeds.
The misfiring striker hadn’t scored in his opening 17 games for lowly Hull after a £4.5m summer move from Norwich.
And he’d incurred the wrath of some supporters with an untimely New Year’s Day social media post. Just hours after being partly blamed for Middlesbrough’s injury-time winner against Tigers, he posted smiley emojis on Portsmouth’s Instagram account after they had secured a win.
Kamara, who spent last season on loan at Championship rivals Pompey, publicly apologised for its bad timing. But he started making up for it where it mattered most against Leeds.
With keeper Illan Meslier in no man’s land, Kamara scored a quality fifth minute lob to get his account up and running. Even though Leeds hit back to forge 3-1 ahead with second half goals from Ao Tanaka, Dan James and Joel Piroe, he then helped pull off a remarkable fightback.
Joao Pedro bundled in after erring Meslier palmed a looping header onto his crossbar – when it looked like going over – in the 82nd minute. And Kamara, 21, stepped up with a brilliant 89th minute left-footed strike after Meslier flapped at a corner in a dramatic end to a pulsating Yorkshire derby.
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Hull boss Ruben Selles, so positive helping them fight off bottom spot since taking over last month, admitted: “It feels like a perfect final end for him for what’s happened in the last couple of days.
“I was confident [in his reaction] as he’s an honest person and gives everything. I knew he was able to make that type of performance and his team-mates wanted to be there for him.
“It was important that he made the statement yesterday. And as a dressing room we showed we’re together. After that second goal there was a feeling we could get something from the game. And we did it. The way we got that point was super important.”
Leeds had plenty of chances to hit back in the first half but lacked a clinical touch. And Hull should have added a second when Regan Slater his a post with most of the goal to aim at.
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Instead, Tanaka scored his first goal in Leeds colours with a brilliant curled effort in the 46th minute. Ex-Hull academy product James smashed in their second just after the hour before City keeper Emiliano Martinez’s poor pass gifted Piroe the chance to fire in United’s third.
Leeds should have been home and hosed from there so boss Daniel Farke was far from impressed. He said: “Disappointed is probably the right word. We weren’t sharp enough in the first half. We allowed ourselves to be two percent less on it in both boxes.
“There were so many good situations but we didn’t finish them off. I don’t think we’ve conceded a cheaper goal this season than that first one. Somehow they were able to score in situations where normally you can never score. They can’t hide behind the fact they have to do better. We are not the finished end product.”
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