A Five-Star performance from The Tigers secured an impressive away win against Wigan Athletic at the DW Stadium and firmly put to rest the ghost of games gone by.
Grant McCann made one change to the Hull City Starting XI from their last outing against MK Dons, Alfie Jones returned to the side and Dan Crowley moved to the substitutes bench.
City pressed from the off and began to pressurise the Wigan defence when Lewis-Potter won City an early free kick in the fourth minute. Two minutes later, City's Scottish Sniper Greg Docherty, called Wigan's keeper Jamie Jones in action, having fired in a shot at his near post.
City continued the early pressure seeing Lewis-Potter drive at the Wigan defence, thus earning City a corner in the tenth minute. Two minutes later Mallik Wilks earnt City another dangerous free kick after being bundled over by the Wigan Defence.
The score remained all square despite early efforts from City. Would we finally see City end their run off goalless games? And a goal nearly came, but at the wrong end, seeing a huge block from Jacob Greaves and a second from his defensive partner shortly after as Wigan looked to upset the Black and Amber party.
Enter the twenty seventh minute and at long last the goalless run ended, when Mallik Wilks fired home a well worked opening goal for the Tigers on his fiftieth appearance for the club. A mere five minutes after opening the scoring, Wilksey was up to no good again, doubling The Tiger's lead.
City controlled the remaining moments of the first half relatively well, the only remaining event of note, to come from a free kick late on in the 42nd minute, which saw a chance for a City third only to be rolled out as offside.
HT: Wigan 0-2 City
City began the second half as they did in the first, when in the fourty nineth minute, Keane Lewis-Potter fired home a third for City.
City soon made it four, when in the fifty third minute, Lewis-Potter played Magennis through one-on-one with the Wigan keeper, Josh needed no second invitation to slot the ball past Jones, leaving Lionel dancing on the ceiling.
Change was soon afoot with Grant McCann making a triple substitution in the sixty third minute, seeing Jones, Magennis and Docherty make way for Flores, Slater and Crowley.
Two minutes later City made it FIVE, when Mallik Wilks brought the ball down on the edge of the area before firing a brilliant finish into the far corner. What a way to bag your hat-trick.
Sixty nine minutes in, City's defensive capabilities were called in to action once more, when Callum Lang raced through toward City's goal only for Regan Slater to get back perfectly and deny the Wigan forward, protecting City's clean sheet.
A fourth substitution came for City in the seventy first minute when the Hat-Trick hero Mallik Wilks made way for James Scott. What an evening it has been for Wilksey who will claim the match ball at the games end.
City had an opportunity for six when Lewie Coyle drilled in a cross looking for Lewis-Potter only for Jamie Jones to rise and claim the ball. This then paved way for City's fifth and final substitution of the evening, seeing George Honeyman replaced by Josh Emmanuel.
The chances kept on coming for the rampant Tiger's as Callum Elder saw a shot blocked by the Wigan Defence in the eighty third minute and Dan Crowley saw a shot fizz just wide in the eighty seventh.
FT: Wigan 0-5 City
An emphatic performance from City sees them return to second place on goal difference ahead of Peterborough United. Yet, all teams around them have two games in hand which could see City drop as low as 5th.