Prediction for Middlesbrough – Hull City
– Middlesborough: The team is 15º with 12 points, a classification that, in my opinion, does not reflect the good game that are being deployed in the last dates newly promoted.
Offside: George Friend goes down safely, James Husband (doubt) and Daniel Ayala has already returned to training
They have been able to tie Arsenal (0-0) to Manchester City (1-1) and Leicester (2-2) in the last 5 games in a game they won until they were tied at the last minute and on penalties. They would also lose 0-1 against leaders Chelsea in a game that they could draw and won 2-0 at Bournemouth, a rather humble team that is setting a good season. Vital party for the Karanka before a direct rival for the descent.
They usually play with 4-5-1 and Negredo has his chance to score more goals. They already scored the 2 against Leicester on the final day. It is the second less scorer of the Premier with 12 goals, the same as Burnley and 1 more than their rivals today, Hull City but, instead, are the team less thrashing of the last 10 of the Premier League, only Have conceded 15 goals in large part by the good work of Valdés in the goal.
– Hull City: 18th with 11 points, 1 less than Boro is in a rather complicated situation. They only add 5 points from the last 33 possible.
Low: Hernandez, Keane, Odubajo, Luer and Bruce are safe casualties by injury, Mbokani by direct red and Clucas by accumulation of yellow, Mason is doubt.
The losses are very numerous for the Tigers in this match and if we add the additional wear and tear to play the League Cup on Tuesday we have that Boro has been able to rest 3 more days to prepare this match. Then we see in the statistics that is the team less scorer (11 goals in favor) and the team more thrashed (28 goals against). As a visitor he scored 5 goals only for 16 goals conceded (15 of them in the last 4 visits in which he only scored 2 goals), some more than worrying data for a team loaded with casualties and still does not give the proper lineup for his equipment. For this I refer you to this argument that I put where I spoke of the continuous changes of alignments, as a pick for the Hull-Southampton that came out green.
Against Southampton they used 3-5-2 and against Sunderland and West Brom in the last two days a 4-4-1-1 with Mbokani as main forward (low by sanction).
Middlesborough needs to win if he wants to get away from the relegation places and push Mike Phelan even further into the pit.
I’m going with Stake 2 and lucky to follow me.
