MOWBRAY IS ON A WINNER IMMEDIATELY

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A STOPPAGE-TIME goal from Koji Miyoshi earned Birmingham victory.

It saw Tony Mowbray earn his first win since taking over as manager at St Andrew’s last week, following the sacking of Wayne Rooney.

The Blues had to come back from a goal down to win the tie after Jason Lokilo’s first goal for Hull had opened the scoring after 12 minutes.

But Mowbray made five substitutions on the hour and it changed the game.

Two of those subs scored, with Jay Stansfield equalising four minutes after coming on.

Birmingham offered the biggest threats in the opening minutes, with Keshi Anderson and Gary Gardner testing goalkeeper Matt Ingram.

But it was Hull who opened the scoring with a superbly executed move.

Billy Sharp, in his first start for Hull, made the most of a slip by Krystian Bielik and found James Furlong on the left. His cross was converted by

Lokilo from eight yards. Hull went in search of a second goal, but Greg Docherty’s long-range swung away off target.

Blues goalkeeper John Ruddy kept his side’s deficit to one goal when he made an important save on the hour from Tyrell Sellars-fleming.

James responded for Mowbray’s side with an angled shot that flew just wide of the far post. The Brum manager then made his five substitutions to try to rescue the tie.

The move had an immediate effect as the equaliser came just four minutes later as two subs combined to score.

Miyoshi’s shot was pushed out by Ingram, with Stansfield converting the rebound for his eighth goal of the season.

Sikiri Dembele almost scored a second for Birmingham when he floated a long-range effort narrowly wide.

But, with extra time looming, Miyoshi (above) forced the ball home after a pass from Stansfield to book a fourth-round clash with Leicester.