Hull City 0-2 Luton Town: Hatters consign managerless hosts to home defeat

Shota Arveladze lost his job as Hull City's manager just hours before the game.

Within six minutes, the team conceded an own goal by Alfie Jones.

After hitting the bar for the hosts, Henri Lansbury struck low from distance for the second for the visitors.

In the second half, Hull didn't offer much in the way of response, as they fell to a defeat.

In his first season at the helm, Arveladze guided the club to safety and a 19th place finish in the Championship.

Hull had lost their last four games under the Georgian and were 20th in the table with just three victories from 10 games.

The club's assistant head coach, Peter van der Veen, left the club with immediate effect on Friday and was replaced byDawson.

Jones turned into his own net after Elijah Adebayo hit the bar, but the side that was defeated bySwansea on 17 September was made up of three new players.

Despite growing into the game after they conceded, Hull went in at the break with a 2-0 deficit.

There was no comeback for Hull as they were shut out in the second half.

The interim head coach of Hull City is AndyDawson.

This morning, I discovered it. I talked to Shota and he was honest. They're two great people, we sent them our regards.

The international break gave us time to prepare. We and the guys worked hard and were ready to go into the game tonight. That's sports. You have to adapt quickly.

The team was a lot of things. Over the last few days and this morning, it was conversations. Preparing the gaffer and Peter to be in the right state of mind was the main goal of the project.

I didn't think we were focused on the first goal. They were brave enough to get the ball after that. They continued to go to the end. We could have had more creativity in the last third.

Nathan Jones told the radio station.

It was great. It was a difficult game, but we had to focus on ourselves and I think we did well.

We should have been more than 2-0 up at half-time after smothering the press.

It's not on us at 2-0. We think we have goals in us. In the second half it was about trying to go out in the final third but if you can't you need to defend well.