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Hull City and Manchester City meet at Kingston Communications Stadium in a match of the 18th round of the Barclays Premier League. The record of recent direct clashes favors the visiting team, who in the last 5 matches won 4 and drew 1. The last direct confrontation between these two teams, on 12-18-2015, ended with Manchester City’s victory by (4-1 ).
Hull City
After 3 wins, 3 draws and 11 losses, the home team is in 20th place, having won 12 points. In the last match, they lost with West Ham away by (1-0), after in the previous game to have lost out in a game against Tottenham, by (3-0). In the last eight home games for the league, Hull City have won 2, 2 draws and 4 losses, having won 8 points out of 24. In their domestic league games the most frequent scorer in the break was 0-1 (4 out of 8 matches). Defensive solidity has not been his strong point as he has scored at least one goal in each of the last 10 games in this competition. In his games at home there is a tendency towards goals, since 7 of his last 8 games by the competition finished with More of 1.5 goals. This is a team that scores a few times first: just opened the scoring in 3 of their last 17 games for the Barclays Premier League, those 3 reached the break in lead 2 and won in the late 90 ‘in 2. In 17 games in this competition , Suffered the first goal 14 times and only managed 1 turn on the scoreboard.
Hull City come to this unmotivated match due to a 1-0 defeat at West Ham for a sixth consecutive game without a win in this competition. In this round at home coach Mike Phelan should adopt a strategy very similar to the last game, namely the 5-4-1, privileging the organization of his game system and counterattacks. Robert Snodgrass is Hull City’s top scorer with 5 goals scored. For this game the coach can not count on Alex Bruce, Hernandez, Odubajo, McGregor and Will Keane, players who recover from injury.
Manchester City
After 11 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, the visiting team is in 3rd place, having won 36 points. In the last match, he beat Arsenal 2-1 at home, having won 2-0 at home against Watford in the previous match. His last away game for this competition ended with a 4-2 loss to Leicester City. In the last 8 games away from the championship, Manchester City have 6 wins and 2 losses, having won 18 points out of 24. In the matches that he played as a visitor in the championship there is a result that is repeated often in the late 90 ‘, 1-2, which occurred in 3 of his 9 games. The team has conceded goals in eight of their last 10 games, so they have not shown great defensive solidity, but their attack has been marked with great regularity, since they have always scored at least one goal in the last 10 matches in this competition. In his games as a visitor there is a tendency to score goals, since 7 of his last 8 games in the competition finished with Over 2.5 goals. In 17 games for the Barclays Premier League, he suffered the first goal 6 times but managed to turn the score in 2. In the last 20 away games for all competitions there has been a highlight: he scored 12 of his 34 goals in minutes (76 ‘-90’).
The Manchester City team arrives at this game with a 2-1 victory over Arsenal, thus adding to their second consecutive win in this competition: the goals were scored by Sané and Sterling. Usly coaching in the 4-3-3 alignment, the ball was led by the like and the game was proceeding to: David Silva was the scorer. Sergio Agüero is Manchester City’s top scorer with 10 goals scored, but is missing from the game due to injury. Apart from this player, coach Pep Guardiola can not count on Zabaleta, Kompany, Delph and Gundogan, all injured.
Prediction: over 2.5 goals @ 1.55