Julio Enciso's thumping strike salvaged a point for Ipswich in an entertaining Premier League draw at Hull.

The Paraguayan attacking midfielder rifled a left-foot shot into the top corner from 20 yards with 16 minutes remaining to equalise for Ipswich and deny Hull a first win since August.

Ipswich had led through Florentino Luis' powerful near-post strike as they dominated the first half at MKM Stadium.

After a dismal first-half showing, Hull were a different side in the second 45 minutes and levelled through Tim Iroegbunam before Oli McBurnie's free-kick found the bottom right corner to give them the lead.

The lead lasted only six minutes, though, and the Tigers have now gone seven league games without tasting victory, eight in all competitions.

Despite that run, Sergej Jakirovic's have lost only two league games and remain in the top half of the table, above Gary O'Neil's Ipswich on goal difference.

Having gone behind in the second half, Ipswich will be glad to come away with something, but their early dominance was such that they may still be frustrated not to take all three points.

They thoroughly deserved the lead by the time Abdoul Ouattara beat a man and slipped in Florentino to hammer home the opener.

Ipswich then briefly thought they had doubled their advantage from a corner, only for Enciso's header to be ruled out for a foul on McBurnie moments earlier.

The deficit stayed at one and a much-improved Hull levelled just before the hour as McBurnie found Iroegbunam, who beat the offside trap and was bizarrely given all the time in the world by the Ipswich defence to amble into the box and lash past Christian Walton for his first Premier League goal.

The Ipswich goalkeeper was beaten again 10 minutes later, albeit he may feel he could have done better, as McBurnie drove in a low free-kick from just outside the box.

Hull were buoyant and the crowd were with them, but Enciso's sizzling strike ensured the points would be shared.

For two promoted sides to be sitting on 11 points from nine games, safely in mid-table for now, there shouldn't be too much to grumble about.

Yet, both Hull and Ipswich will feel slightly frustrated after a highly watchable draw in East Yorkshire.

It is the kind of result that each will hope they don't come to rue at the end of the campaign.

For Ipswich, what will irk O'Neil most is that Ipswich were unable to capitalise on such a strong first half.

With better decision-making around the penalty area and a little more ruthlessness, they could have been out of sight.

Meanwhile, a slow start - to put it mildly - will be at the heart of Hull's frustration. That and their failure to keep themselves in front, having fought back to lead.

While Hull continue to pick up points, the damage is lessened. But the longer they go without a victory, the more urgent is their need to rediscover that winning feeling.

For the time being, both sides can focus on the resilience they showed after falling behind and the latest point ticked off in the quest to stay in the top flight. The hope in both camps will be that they don't ultimately see this as two dropped.