Hull City 2-0 Aston Villa

Dame N'Doye joined Hull from Lokomotiv Moscow on transfer deadline day

• Jelavic grabs seventh goal of season

• N'Doye scores on full Hull debut

• Villa without a win in 10 matches

• Villa drop into bottom three in Premier League

Striker Dame N'Doye marked his first start for Hull with a goal and an assist as they moved above Aston Villa in the table.

Nikica Jelavic scored a deflected opener from N'Doye's through ball.

The Senegal international made it 2-0 with a close-range finish after Brad Guzan saved his initial effort following Gaston Ramirez's header down.

Victory lifted Hull to 15th in the Premier League table and left Villa in the bottom three.

Paul Lambert's Villa have now gone 10 Premier League matches without a win, they have not scored an away goal in almost eight and a half hours, and a banner reading 'Lambert Out' was unfurled by some visiting supporters at half-time.

The lively N'Doye, a £3m signing from Lokomotiv Moscow on transfer deadline day, opened the scoring despite Villa enjoying plenty of early possession.

Villa's haul of 12 league goals this season is the lowest total after 25 games in Premier League history

N'Doye controlled Allan McGregor's goal-kick and found Jelavic, whose shot looped off Villa defender Ciaran Clark and over goalkeeper Guzan for his seventh goal of the season.

Hull, who had won only twice at home in the league this season before this game, gained confidence from the goal and N'Doye should have made it 2-0 when he headed wide from Ahmed Elmohamady's clipped cross.

Although Hull defender Alex Bruce was required to block Aly Cissokho's second-half shot following an exchange of passes with Gabriel Agbonlahor, the hosts remained a threat on the counter-attack.

Substitute Ramirez nodded down Elmohamady's cross to find N'Doye, who scored from inside the six-yard box at the second attempt.

Hull could have added to their tally in stoppage time when substitute Abel Hernandez chose to shoot from 20 yards when passing to a team-mate looked a better option.

The closest Villa came to ending their goal drought away from home was when Hull keeper McGregor pushed away Ashley Westwood's 25-yard drive and then kept out substitute Christian Benteke's follow-up.

Hull City manager Steve Bruce: "We took a bit of confidence from the weekend. It was nice to beat a team that was in and around us.

"Psychologically it's good for everybody. That was more like what I've been used to seeing for the last two and a half years. We've given ourselves a good chance."

"You don't want to be anywhere near that bottom three. The aim now is to give ourselves a cushion."

Hull kept their first clean sheet since the goalless draw with West Brom on 6 December

Hull's victory over Villa was their third at home in the Premier League this season

Hull found the back of the net in consecutive league games for the first time since October 2014

Aston Villa have kept two clean sheets in their last 11 away Premier League games