📏 Form Guide

Oxford United

DDDDLL 📉

Oxford United won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 1-2 Championship defeat last time out to Swansea City.

In that match, Oxford United had 36% possession and 8 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Oxford United was Dane Scarlett (88'). On the other side, Swansea City had 16 shots on goal with 5 on target. Žan Vipotnik (38') and Florian Bianchini (80') scored for Swansea City.

It has been seldom in recent times where Oxford United have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Oxford United have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 9 goals along the way. It will be interesting to find out if that trend will be sustained in this game.

Analysis of their past results shows that Oxford United:

• haven't won against Hull City in their last 3 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 4 league matches. Their fans aren't happy.

Hull City

WLLDDD

In their previous game, Hull City drew 1-1 in the Championship tie with Portsmouth.

In that game, Hull City had 72% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Hull City was João Pedro (11'). Portsmouth got 9 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Josh Murphy (46') was the scorer for Portsmouth.

The stats don’t lie, and Hull City have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals in total. At the back, Hull City have some weaknesses to address.

Coming into this fixture, Hull City haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings going back to 21/09/2002 shows that Oxford United have won 1 of these and Hull City 2, with the tally of drawn games being 3.

A combined total of 13 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 from The U's and 8 created by The Tigers. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was League One match day 36 on 13/03/2021 when the final score was Hull City 2-0 Oxford United.

The match was refereed by Anthony Backhouse.

📋 Team News: Oxford United

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just a single fitness concern for the Oxford United manager Des Buckingham to contend with from an otherwise fully-primed group of players. Przemyslaw Placheta (unknown injury) misses out.

In all likelihood, The U's will possibly kick off with a 4-5-1 formation in the match with Jamie Cumming, Peter Kioso, Elliott Moore, Ben Nelson, Ciaron Brown, Owen Dale, Ruben Rodrigues, Joshua McEachran, Louie Sibley, Tyler Goodrham and Mark Harris.

📰 Team News: Hull City

Due to a mostly available group, there is just a single fitness worry for the Hull City manager Tim Walter to be concerned about. Marvin Mehlem (Calf injury) won’t be in action.

There’s a good chance that The Tigers appear most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting Ivor Pandur, Lewie Coyle, Alfie Jones, Charlie Hughes, Cody Drameh, Xavier Simons, Gustavo Puerta, Mohamed Belloumi, Regan Slater, Abu Kamara and João Pedro Galvão.

⚡ Prediction

We envisage that Hull City and Oxford United could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. Therefore, we predict a 1-1 scoreline when all is said and done.

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

Peter Guest, 19:05 05/11/2024