West Bromwich Albion 0 - 3 Hull City

Rampant Tigers go joint top

Updated: October 25, 2008, 9:56 AM ET

Hull produced another stunning performance to claim an unlikely share of the Barclays Premier League lead this afternoon.

• Brown: We rode our luck

The promoted Tigers were second best to West Brom for large parts of a full-blooded encounter at The Hawthorns but hit the hosts with three goals in the second half.

In a blistering 20-minute spell, Hull - earlier indebted to goalkeeper Boaz Myhill and the crossbar for keeping them in the game - snatched victory trough Kamil Zayatte, Geovanni and Marlon King.

Hull's fourth successive win, amazingly, put them level with Chelsea and Liverpool at the top of the table and left them in good heart for clashes against the Blues and Manchester United next week.

It was a second successive heavy defeat for the Baggies and, like last week's 4-0 loss to United, was one in which the scoreline barely reflected their effort.

The result could hardly have been anticipated at the break after the hosts enjoyed a number of opportunities.

Ishmael Miller, recalled to add some firepower to the goal-shy home attack, proved a particular handful for the Hull defence and Myhill had to be at his best.

West Brom took an early grip on the game and earned their first opportunity from a free-kick on the edge of the box after Andy Dawson chopped down Miller.

Miller's deflected effort was easily gathered by Myhill but left-back Dawson had been injured in the challenge and was limping out of position as the Baggies attacked again.

Miller found Roman Bednar with a fine through ball but Ian Ashbee cleared over his own bar as the Czech looked for Robert Koren in front of goal.

The hosts were then denied by both Myhill and the crossbar from the resulting corner as Borja Valero's drive was parried and Jonas Olsson headed the rebound against the woodwork.

Bednar still almost scrambled the ball in by the post but Hull escaped and boss Phil Brown, with just 10 minutes gone, replaced the struggling Dawson with Sam Ricketts.

West Brom continued to press and James Morrison picked out Ryan Donk with a fine cross but the defender headed straight at Myhill.

Hull had a chance at the other end when West Brom failed to clear a King corner but Ashbee shot well wide.

West Brom were incensed not to win a free-kick as Bednar went to ground under a challenge from Michael Turner as he chased a long ball. Perhaps in frustration, Miller clumsily went in on Zayatte to earn a yellow card.

Zayatte was not affected and flashed a header wide from a Dean Marney corner soon after.

Geovanni, scorer of spectacular goals against Arsenal and Tottenham, attempted another after finding space 10 minutes before the break but Scott Carson dealt with his long-range effort.

Myhill made an even better save from Miller moments later after the striker beat Zayatte for pace on a powerful run into the box. He shot across goal but Myhill just managed to tip his effort wide.

Bednar went close with a delicate volley on the stroke of half-time but the ball just dipped over.

Hull caught the hosts with the sucker punch two minutes after the restart as King broke clear and crossed low into the box.

Daniel Cousin failed to make contact but Marney touched to Geovanni and the Brazilian's effort almost crept in after a deflection wrong-footed Scott Carson, but the keeper recovered well to concede a corner.

Yet Hull are starting to find corners a rich source of goals and they benefited again as Marney's cross dropped between defenders and was volleyed in by Zayatte.

West Brom attempted to hit back but Donk saw another header deflected for a corner and Miller was denied by a superb Turner tackle.

Morrison then forced another superb save from Wales international Myhill with a low shot from 30 yards.

West Brom paid for their profligacy as Hull doubled their lead following another moment of inspiration from Geovanni after 62 minutes.

The former Barcelona midfielder knocked the ball forward for King, who brilliantly flipped the ball back in his direction with his first touch and Geovanni dived to head in.

Moments later it was 3-0 as King raced onto a poor header by Gianni Zuiverloon and calmly clipped the ball past Carson.

After that West Brom were barely a threat and failed to test Myhill as Hull's fans enjoyed the countdown to the final whistle and confirmation their remarkable run had continued.

Brown: We rode our luck

Hull boss Phil Brown admitted his side had needed to ride their luck to maintain their "Champions League form'' at West Brom today.

Brown said: "It was definitely a team talk at half-time that meant a lot to the players. We rode our luck in the first half. We weren't anywhere near our usual tempo, workrate or passing.

"Consequently we found ourselves with an uphill task because West Brom are a good side and if they get their passing game going they will cause anybody a problem.We had to do something about it and made one or two changes.

"It was a game of two halves definitely. The strikers will probably get all the mentions in the papers but I am absolutely ecstatic after a third clean sheet in the bounce.''

Hull, almost inconceivably, are now level with Chelsea and Liverpool at the league summit.

It has been a remarkable start to the season for the Championship play-off winners but they now face Chelsea and Manchester United in the next week Brown added: "If you get 20 points from nine games you are going to be somewhere near the top.

"We have now got a couple of massive games on the horizon and we have earned the right to go into them and give a good account of ourselves, instead of everyone classing us as whipping boys. It is Champions League form - but that is what it is, form. That is temporary.''

Baggies boss Tony Mowbray said: "From our perspective, if you take the result out of it, there were plenty of positives. But it is all about the result you see the next day. We missed opportunities and they were more clinical than we were.

"The first goal was always going to be crucial and unfortunately for us they got it. We have got to be more clinical in front of goal. We can't keep creating chances and missing them.''