CITY surrendered their unbeaten home record on a miserable night against Hartlepool.

T&A chief sports writer SIMON PARKER was at Valley Parade for the 3-1 defeat and provides the match stats and his player ratings.

MAN OF THE MATCH

It was hard to spot anyone in white who emerged with any credit from a sorry night. But Callum Cooke did show a bit of positive intent to try to push City forward.

MOMENT OF THE MATCH

Hartlepool’s opener in the first minute completely turned the tables to change the momentum of the evening.

MOAN OF THE MATCH

City never recovered from that early goal and looked off it in all departments as the visitors grew in confidence.

TACTICS

The only change from Saturday was the enforced one as Matty Foulds was handed his full City league debut at left back for the injured Liam Ridehalgh.

REFEREE: Tom Nield (Wakefield)

BOOKINGS: Sutton, Cooke (City)

SHOTS ON TARGET: City 3 Hartlepool 4

SHOTS OFF TARGET: City 11 Hartlepool 5

CORNERS: City 6 Hartlepool 4

FOULS: City 14 Hartlepool 10

PLAYER RATINGS

CITY: O’Donnell 5, Threlkeld 5 (Cousin-Dawson 61min), Songo’o 5, O’Connor 5, Foulds 5, Watt 4 (Robinson 77min), Sutton 5, Gilliead 4 (Lavery 61min), Cooke 6, Vernam 5, Cook 5. Subs (not used): Canavan, Evans, Kelleher, Scales.

HARTLEPOOL: Killip 6, Hendrie 7, Byrne 7, Sterry 7, Holohan 7 (Fondop 85min), Daly 6, Featherstone 7, Ferguson 6, Shelton 7, Molyneux 7 (Ogle 89min), Cullen 8 (Grey 70min). Subs (not used): Odusina, Jones, Crawford, Mitchell.