Coventry-Hull : Preview
By CovSid67
March 12 2011
Head-To-Head, Recent Form, Team News, and the Latest Betting Odds, ahead of Saturday's Championship match between Coventry City and Hull.
Coventry City (18th) and Hull (9th) have met 40 times previously, with Coventry having won 15 times, nine matches ending in a draw, and Hull having won 16 times.
The 0-0 draw earlier in the season was the first Championship fixture that Coventry City failed to score in (Game ten).
Previous to this season, the two sides last met in 2007/8, where Hull won the fixture at their ground, 1-0, while the fixture at the Ricoh ended 1-1 (McKenzie scored for Coventry City).
Coventry City did the double over Hull in the 2006/7 season winning 2-0 at home (With Doyle and McKenzie scoring), and 1-0 away (With Thornton scoring the only goal of the game).
Hull are currently seven points off the play-off places (And have lost only three times in 21 fixtures), while Coventry City are seven points above the relegation places. The gap between the two sides is eleven points.
Hull have lost their last two home fixtures, against Burnley and Cardiff, and won their last two away fixtures, against Nottingham Forest and Derby. They also hammered Scunthorpe 5-1 away at the start of February. Their top scorer is Matty Fryatt, with seven goals, with Robert Koren next on six goals.
Coventry are expected to be unchanged from the side that conceded late on versus Doncaster on Tuesday, unless Kieran Westwood can recover from injury and replace Quirke. Keeper Vito Mannone is expected to be missing for Hull, with on-loan Aston Villa keeper Brad Guzan expected to replace him.
Best Odds: Coventry City are 7/4 to win, Hull are 9/5, while the draw is 12/5. Coventry half-time, Hull full-time is 34/1, while Hull half-time, Coventry full-time is 40/1. Hull half-time/Hull full time is the lowest odds of all predictions, at 4/1. A 2-1 win for either side is 10/1.
Fryatt is 11/2 to be first scorer, while Marlon King is, slightly unbelievably, 6/1 to be the first goalscorer for Coventry City (Unless this is the bookies taking a dig at our other strikers!). Jutkiewicz is 13/2, with McLean and Simpson 7/1 for Hull. Callum Wilson is 10/1.
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