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Pedro Neto’s hat-trick and Liam Delap’s hat-trick of assists made for Liam Rosenior’s happy Hull return Here’s Aaron Bower’s match report from East Yorkshire. From Sky reporter Sanny Rudravajhala, on X: “A second announcement at Hull City - Chelsea that discriminatory language will not be tolerated, CCTV is in action and arrests will be made. ” Liam Delap spoke to TNT: ““We came here with one task and that was to win. We showed we can battle and also play some good football, so we are happy. “Pedro Neto is an incredible player. He is playing in a position he is not even used to but he showed his quality. “I swear on my life I almost ran off, I thought it went in and was waiting for the referee to blow his whistle. It was silly from me but I thought it was in. “We have our ways of applying pressure from corners. We have been so close a few times and always nice to see them go in. ” Pedro Neto, matchball owner, spoke to the BBC: “I think the most important one is enjoy it. I think if we enjoy and we are with the right attitude and the pitch, we give no chances. So this is what we did today. We play a really good football against a really tough team and we are really up with it. Get through as well. Lots to compete for, lots still to go this season. “In terms of confidence, and in terms of going forwards in the match, and like I said, we are a really positive team, we want to continue to work, and winning is really important as well. ” Worth mentioning is that Liam Delap, for all his first-half issues in front of goal, got a hat-trick of assists. Michael Hunt gets in touch: “ Is it unfair to point out that Chris Sutton was signed as a promising English prospect from a relegated team to offer a different and more direct approach up front for Chelsea, given the nine shirt, managed to scuff a goal against a poor continental opponent in his second game, and of his remaining two goals that season he at least managed to get one in a walkover against Hull in the FA Cup? Poyet got a hat-trick from midfield in that Hull match too. ” Ian Maddison is here all week: “Hope Delap managed to find a seat in the Chelsea dugout. With his degree of accuracy tonight he’ll have fallen between two. ” Pedro Neto’s hat-trick, including a goal from a corner, means Chelsea are the first team in the fifth round draw. A happy return for Liam Rosenior. His team were in full control. 90+2 min: Lewis Koumas has a late chance, and improvises a shot that looks to be creeping in, and Sanchez makes a fine fingertip save. Then Gelhardt almost lumbers through. 90+1 min: Acheampong sees glory and shoots from distance. Way over. 90 min: Shim Mheuka tries to bulwark his way through but loses the ball just as three more minutes are added on. 89 min: Darren Cann, former ref, is on the BBC, is saying refs have to play the correct time added on as people have had a bet on the game. Joe Gelhardt clatters into Hato, gets booked and a flea in his ear from Enzo Fernandez. 87 min: Liam Delap goes off, having made a much better fist of the second half than the first. Shim Mheuka comes on. 86 min: Derry makes a gallop up front only for Neto, with his job done, to check back. Derry then shows some nice skill down in the corner. Clearly some talent there. 84 min: Chelsea seeing out time, though the likes of Jesse Derry will fancy making something out of the dying embers. 82 min: Late flurry from Hull, with Ryan Giles forcing a toed save from Robert Sanchez. Hull fail to make much of the corner, which is hacked away by Liam Delap. 80 min: James Bolle gets in touch: “I spent some time in Hull this summer before watching Oxford play there. There was much to like. .. Old Town and Humber St in particular and the Jaffa Cake gelato from a restaurant there. Not what this southerner expected at all. Might be different on a snowy night in February, mind. ” Yes, Hull is underrated. Good people, good buildings. There must have been a reason Phil Larkin liked it…. Great accent, too. Enjoyed by Lou Reed, who loved Mick Ronson’s accent. True fact. 78 min: Nice pass from young Derry, sending Acheampong into space though the ball into the centre can’t find Delap to complete his redemption arc. 77 min: Kyle Joseph and Cody Drameh on for Hull, Coyle and Hirakawa off. 76 min: Garnacho is wasteful again, his passing giving Estevao little to work with for his last action of the game. Jesse Derry coming on, as Wes Fofana goes off, and Tosin comes on, 73 min: Two youngters coming on, Jesse Derry for his Chelsea debut, son of Shaun Derry, QPR legend, last seen as Wolves’ set-piece coach, assisting Gary O’Neil, now of Strasbourg. It’s all connected… The Housemartins it is! Delap’s hold-up play is excellent, Neto’s finish is low and venomous. 70 min: Chelsea really comfortable here. A few of them, Delap and Garnacho especially, might fancy a goal to answer the critics. 68 min: Peter Oh drops in the first Paul Heaton mention of the game: “The current score of Hull 0 London club 3 flies in the face of the Housemartins’ debut album from way back in 1986. Given all of the insanity in modern football and the wider world, it’s a timely reminder for everyone to Think for a Minute. ” Been a happy hour for Chelsea, it’s true. 66 min: Phillips almost repeats his mistake for Neto’s corner, saving the ball with his knees. Sarr, the Chelsea player, an African champion, stops the ball being released and picks up a cheap booking. 66 min: Delap makes another run down the right-hand channel; Rosenior seems to like him in that inside-right role. He forces a corner. 64 min: Hadziahmetovic departs, for John Lundstram. Joe Geldhart, once of Leeds, comes on for Canada’s Liam Miller. 62 min: Turning into an enjoyable trip for Chelsea. Fish and chips later? High quality in Hull. 60 min: That’s Estevao’s seventh goal for Chelsea. Liam Rosenior makes two changes: James and Caicedo off, Enzo Fernandez and Josh Acheampong on. Those were pre-planned before the goal. Better from Delap, a surging run, down the channels, cutting inside and then holds his nerve to set up Estevao to crash home. 58 min: Estevao clears the second ball from a wasted Hull corner. Chelsea in full control at the moment. 57 min: Probably difficult for Hull to not think of next Saturday, and the home visit of QPR. That’s a big game. 56 min: Garnacho tries to rectify his mistake, and shoots. It’s not enough to beat Phillips. The enigma remains enigmatic. 54 min: The ball breaks for Garnacho to make a long run into Hull territory, lots of space, and then…he passes it straight to an amber shirt. 53 min: Reminder that Chelsea were two goals up on Tuesday. It takes Caicedo’s reading of the situation to cut off a ball meant for Koumas. Everyone else was napping. Phillips made a mess of that. Neto has scored an olimpico, straight from a corner, swerving it in, and beyond everyone, and through the Hull keepers’ legs. 50 min: Neto goes to the byline, Andrey Santos climbs highest and Dylan Philips make a a fine save. Corner… 49 min: Delap drops back and wins the ball in midfield, James gives it to Estevao who also had an indifferent first half. Reece James has been tucked inside, his versatility being used by his manager. The snow has abated for now. 47 min: Chelsea look to build on their advantage. Liam Delap makes a good run to receive and distribute. Some vital minutes ahead for him, perhaps. 46 min: We are back away, and Guy Mowbray is mentioning Boothferry Park and Keith Edwards in the BBC commentary. Two names to conjure with. The old Hull ground was a relic of a golden age. Stephen Mc Crossan gets in touch: “Disinterested (and fairly bored) Celtic fan here - Garnacho really is the epitome of the kind of player who, if he played for your team, would drive you round the twist isn’t he? Clearly got talent but either thinks he’s better than he is or has just been lucky to play with two big clubs. Or maybe just duff? ” In 2023, I’d have said he was a top talent. I’m not so sure now. It’s Wrexham 1-0 Ipswich in Friday’s other FA Cup game, the goal scored by Josh Windass, scion of Hull royalty, of course. Martyn Lunn gets in touch: “Pearling pas: knitting the play together? Then I came across ‘genital pearling’ - not for me clive. Have a good one. ” Hull close the half in possession, which has been rare as Chelsea stepped up the possession and chance creation. Pedro Neto’s goal separates the teams when it might have been more. Liam Delap may wish to forget that half. 45 min: Reece James takes the corner, and Philips takes it well, and Neto is booked for a tactical foul on Hirakawa’s escape. One minute added on. 44 min: Hull may fancy holding on to this scoreline until half-time. Chelsea win a corner. 43 min: Hull stuck to their task but eventually fell victim to allowing too many chances fall to Chelsea. If Delap and Garnacho look like they have decided to play in brogues, Neto has been a cut above, and made up for that earlier miss. 41 min: That was a fine goal, a piece of quality, and probably the most difficult chance of the many Chelsea have had. Neto has such talent, though it can flicker. Neto whips one in with his outstep, lovely cross. Garnacho is more interested in a dive. But the ball comes back out, and Delap lays up Neto to take a step, and then shoot. 39 min: Hadziahmetovic does well to send away Millar but James stands tall. He’s not a player easily beaten on physique. 38 min: Hull go on the counter, Hirakawa attacking at speed, only for Hato to do well in making the interception. Caicedo’s radar is ropey as he tries to find James, but they misread each other. Chelsea doing what they do too often, going right off the boil. 36 min: Garnacho has a dig, and the shot is blocked. Good organisation, Hull are being, well, Tigerish, in defence. 34 min: Andrey Santos stabs a ball forward but Hull’s defenders are reading the Chelsea’s forwards movement for the moment. 32 min: Simon Lane gets in touch: “Chelsea fan here, the way things are going I’m praying for more snow so the game gets called off. There’s no way we can defend this badly and miss chances like that without living to regret it. ” Hull have stuck to their task. Chelsea’s current form is shown by Liam Delap shanking a clearance into the Hull skyline. Has he put the wrong boots on? 30 min: Alan Shearer on the BBC comms, was incandescent with rage that Delap didn’t follow the ball in from that Phillips mistake.