Hull City vs. Leicester City 26th December, 2012 The KC Stadium, Hull View attachment 19941 Hull City View attachment 19947 4 wins in a row, with 3 of them matches being away from home, has given The Tigers some momentum going into the January Transfer Window with some great wins against Nottingham Forest, Watford, Huddersfield and Derby County, the squad is really starting to show their potential and have moved to 2nd in the table. This fixture will be a stern test for City's Promotion Credentials and could really send a message out to the rest of the Division showing how serious Steve Bruce's side is at battling for automatic promotion. Hopefully, starman Sone Aluko will be back for this game and Abdoulaye Faye will again start in place of the suspended Alex Bruce. Bruce Senior has adopted a unique formation with City throughout this Season and the players are really taking the formation to heart with players such as Ahmed Elmohamady and Robbie Brady putting in some brilliant performances both defensively and attacking. City's home form is rather good and the players heads will need to be firmly screwed on to make sure there isn't a repeat of the 3-1 defeat at the King Power Stadium earlier this Season. The recall of David Stockdale meant an opportunity arose for Eldin Jakupovic to make his Tigers debut, and the Swiss Goalkeeper made a, nervous at first but, confident performance at Pride Park. Leicester City Nigel Pearson's Foxes have the tendency to tear any side in this League apart but 2 wins in their last 6 against opposition just around them in the table shows that they can certainly have their off days. Leicesters' last two fixtures were 1-0 defeats against both Millwall and Cardiff, with a draw against lowly Barnsley prior to them. Their last win was a 4-1 drubbing of local rivals Derby County at the King Power and it shows what damage can be done should they play to their full potential. Players to look out for in the Leicester line-up are David Nugent, Anthony Knockaert, Ben Marshall, Lloyd Dyer and Wes Morgan. Leicester may feel hard done by in a lot of their recent results as they dominated League Leaders Cardiff for the vast majority of the match, but just couldn't find the net. Morgan and Whitbread make a solid defensive barrier, and Knockaert, Marshall, King, Dyer and Nugent can combine for some deadly attacks. Inconsistency appears to be the Foxes downfall and Steve Bruce needs to hope they're on another 'off-day' in front of goal. Amber's Magic Prediction Too close to call. Both sides have improved since the last meeting between the two and both sides have two of the strongest midfields in the Championship. Steve Bruce hasn't certainly changed the system since the defeat back at Leicester and it won't be so easy for their front men to find space. City's momentum and confidence added to the fact it's at home and being the 10 year Anniversary of the KC, should raise their performance. I'm going to be optimistic and go for Hull City 2-1 Leicester City. Top Scorers Hull City View attachment 19944 Sone Aluko - 8 goals Jay Simpson - 6 goals Robert Koren - 6 goals Abdoulaye Faye - 4 goals Aaron McLean - 3 goals Leicester City David Nugent - 11 goals Jamie Vardy - 5 goals Anthony Knockaert - 5 goals Ben Marshall - 4 goals Andy King - 4 goals
Will obviously be a very tough game, but hopefully we have enough to beat them! Lets make our Christmas a little more merrier.
If we lose, no histrionics please. We can't win every single game- we need to focus on the big picture, not just one game.
Really can't predict this one. Leicester did a really good job of closing us down and stopping us play at the KP stadium. I hope we show them how we can play.
Dunno which way this will go. We really need a win to keep in touch with the front runners but i reckon it'll be a lot more even than the game at ours. If we score early I'd fancy us to nick it.
I think both teams play better when they're attacking. The first goal will be important, but if it's an early one and the team then goes into defensive mode they could get turned over. I hope we can score first and use the goal as a platform to really get at them (and we all know what happens when we score first.)
Just watched the FLS in IPlayer & I don't know how they lost that game to Cardiff. They have some good players & Knockeart will have to be stopped. The likes of King, Waghorn & Dyer look good too. For me this is going to be the toughest game of the season, if we can win it, it'll be one of the best results of the season.
Must admit I hate playing this team they tend to do a 'Burnley' on us most of the time when we think it's in the bag, if we can keep their strikers we should be fine, 2-1 home win
I just hope the team use the fact that they out played us at their place, as a incentive to out play them at ours, just to show them that we are the better team. Maybe a draw, but hope for a 2-1 win.
