Sam Allardyce : About His Tactical at Half-Time Give Westham 3-0 Streak

"I had to change the whole system, apart from the back four and the goalie, but I couldn't do it during the game because I thought it would be too much and people wouldn't understand what I was wanting," the manager explained. "I wanted to get through to half-time and make sure we didn't concede a goal and sort it out from there."

"In the end, I think that gave us a better opportunity to start attacking Hull better. Our passing was going astray and our choices of passes were wrong before half-time. We were playing backwards and sideways too much instead of playing forwards, so we put the emphasis on playing a diamond and getting Enner Valencia and Stewart Downing closer to Andy Carroll, Kevin Nolan running from deeper positions and Mark Noble and Alex Song playing the full-backs and forwards in better."

"That worked, so it got us a lot better and as soon as we got the first goal it settled us down and we improved from there and continued to become more clinical and more ruthless. Certainly the quality of our second and third goals were what we were looking for over the last few weeks. Had we shown that quality against West Brom and Swansea, we'd have ended up winning those games as well."

"We didn't find that level in those games and we've only really played well here for 45 minutes and we've scored three goals. I have to say that the effort and desire and will the lads put in on Tuesday night against Everton played a part in our first-half performance."

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