📏 Form Guide

Cardiff City

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Cardiff City, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 1-2 Championship success vs Coventry City.

In that match, Cardiff City managed 38% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Coventry City had 14 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Ellis Simms (22') and Liam Kitching (29' Own goal, 67' Own goal) scored for Coventry City.

In their last 6 games, Erol Bulut's Cardiff City have managed to score a total of 6 times - an average number of goals per match of 1.

Ahead of this meeting, Cardiff City have not won against Hull City in their last 5 league games.

Hull City

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Leeds United in Championship competition, Hull City will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Hull City had 56% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The only player to score for Hull City was Fábio Carvalho (34'). At the other end, Leeds United got 14 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Sam Byram (9'), Crysencio Summerville (88') and Daniel James (97') scored for Leeds United.

The stats don’t lie, and Hull City have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 9 goals in total. Defensively, Hull City have clearly had some problems.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Hull City:

• haven't been beaten by Cardiff City in away games against them for the last 2 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 22/07/2020 tells us that Cardiff City have won 1 of these games & Hull City 5, with the tally of draws being 0.

A combined total of 16 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 6 of them for The Bluebirds and 10 coming from The Tigers. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The last league encounter between these sides was Championship match day 22 on 16/12/2023 when the final score was Hull City 3-0 Cardiff City.

On that day, Hull City had 57% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Goals were scored by Aaron Connolly (32'), Scott Twine (56') and Ozan Tufan (59').

On the other side, Cardiff City had 8 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Keith Stroud.

📋 Team News: Cardiff City

Callum Robinson (unknown injury) and Mark McGuinness (unknown injury) aren’t available for Cardiff City manager Erol Bulut.

It looks as if The Bluebirds should go for a 4-4-2 system this time, handing starts to Ethan Horvath, Perry Ng, Nathaniel Phillips, Dimitrios Goutas, Jamilu Collins, Josh Bowler, Manolis Siopis, Joe Ralls, Karlan Grant, David Turnbull and Yakou Méïté.

📰 Team News: Hull City

Thanks to a mainly available group of players, there is only the one fitness problem for the Hull City boss Liam Rosenior to be concerned with. Cyrus Christie (Achilles tendon problems) misses out for this game.

There’s a good chance that The Tigers might elect for a 4-4-2 lineup, giving starts to Ryan Allsop, Regan Slater, Alfie Jones, Jacob Greaves, Matty Jacob, Anass Zaroury, Tyler Morton, Jean Michael Seri, Jaden Philogene, Fabio Carvalho and Ozan Tufan.

🔮 Prediction

Our feeling is that Cardiff City will need to put in a solid display to register a score against this Hull City lineup who we think will win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

That’s why we have predicted a good tussle with a 0-1 win for Hull City at the end of the 90.

Should be an interesting one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 13:02 06/04/2024