{"id":274132,"date":"2026-01-31T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274132\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:26:08","slug":"blackburn-rovers-0-1-hull-city-koumas-scores-winner-on-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274132\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Hull City &#8211; Koumas scores winner on debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As their contrasting positions would suggest, Hull started the brighter of the two, with Liam Millar and Regan Slater testing the home defence, but the first half gradually drifted into a cagey, stop-start affair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blackburn&#8217;s best spell of the game in terms of possession came after half-time, their best chance falling to newly acquired striker Mathias Jorgensen, who headed over just before the hour mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tigers boss Sergej Jakirovic rang the changes after the break but but it was Koumas and Joseph &#8211; both brought on the 76th mark &#8211; who would be the decisive substitutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only five minutes after his introduction, Scotland Under-21 international Joseph was fed through by Hadziahmetovic and squared it to Liverpool loanee Koumas to score from close range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Koumas then nearly returned the favour in the 89th minute with a ball into the box but Joseph was denied by a smart save from Rovers&#8217; Balasz Toth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defeat leaves Rovers still mired in the Championship relegation zone ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s home game against Sheffield Wednesday, while Hull extend their strong run to keep up the pressure on the top two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As their contrasting positions would suggest, Hull started the brighter of the two, with Liam Millar and Regan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-274132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}