Hull City AFC 2-2 Everton FC: Premier League Match Report, 11 October 2026

Nothing in the first half, four goals in the second. Hull City AFC 2-2 Everton FC was 0-0 at the interval and ended with both sides having scored twice.

They met as near neighbours in the table and strangers in the fixture list: there is no meeting between them on record, Hull having come up for this season. Hull were tenth on eight points from five games at plus two, built from a 2-0 win over Manchester United on the opening weekend, 1-0 at Coventry, 0-0 with Aston Villa, 2-2 at Chelsea and a 2-1 defeat at Newcastle. Everton were eighth on nine from the same five at plus three, unbeaten and drawing a great deal: wins over Crystal Palace and Ipswich Town sat either side of three consecutive draws, 1-1 at Bournemouth, 2-2 with Manchester United and 0-0 at Tottenham.

Both had a taste for quiet opening halves. Two of Hull's five had been goalless at the break and so had two of Everton's, which makes a 0-0 at half-time here the least surprising thing about the afternoon. The four goals after it were the surprise, though not an unprecedented one: the 2-2 was a shape both already knew, Hull having drawn 2-2 at Chelsea in September and Everton 2-2 with Manchester United the week before that, which had also been goalless at the break.

This weekend sits inside the gap in our publishing, so no preview went out and there is no pick on the fixture. The page exists because a month of football with no pages at all is the worse record of the two.

A point each left them exactly where they had been relative to one another: Hull on nine from six at plus two, Everton on ten from six at plus three, one point apart before kick-off and one point apart after it.

Everton stretched an unbeaten start to six matches and collected a fourth draw doing it. That is the defining feature of their season so far — four of six finished level, two won, none lost — and it is a pattern with a high floor and nothing yet proved above it. A club that finished thirteenth last season on forty-nine points at minus three is well ahead of its own recent self; a club that has won twice in six is not yet anything more than solid.

Hull's nine points from six is the better of the two stories, because it belongs to a promoted side and because a 2-0 win over Manchester United sits inside it. The caveat is in the sequence: both their wins came in their opening two matches, and the four games since had brought three draws and a defeat. A positive goal difference in the middle of October is not safety with thirty-two matches left, but it is the opposite of the start a newly promoted club usually has to apologise for.