Our prediction for this Championship match:
Cardiff City will be aiming to build on a hard-fought 1-0 win over Sunderland when they take on Hull City on Tuesday evening. The Bluebirds have been having their ups and downs of late, but, no doubt, Saturday’s triumph gave them a confidence boost. All Ebou Adams, Rubin Colwill, Isaak Davies, and Jamilu Collins remain in the recovery room, but there are no fresh injury concerns in the home team.
The Tigers, on the other hand, aim to escape the danger zone, but seeing that they collected only one point in total from the last three league matches, we are tempted to put our money on the Welsh outfit. Oscar Estupinan is banned for the visiting team, while all Vaughn Covil, Billy Chadwick, Harvey Vale, Benjamin Tetteh, Allahyar Sayyadmanesh, and Callum Elder are out of contention with injuries.
Highlighted Player (Callum Robinson):
Born in Northampton, Callum Robinson started his career at Aston Villa. Having gone through the youth ranks with the Villans, Robinson was given his first-team debut in 2013. As a product of the Aston Villa academy, Robinson unfortunately never got a chance to prove his worth at the club and ended up playing no less than 4 league appearances during his three-year stay at Villa Park.
Various loan spells – at Preston North End on two occasions and Bristol City – brought mixed fortunes for the striker up until 2016 when he sealed a permanent move with the Lillywhites. Robinson represented England at U16, U17, U19 and U20 levels but raised plenty of eyebrows when he declared for the Republic of Ireland in March 2018 through his late grandmother who was from Monaghan.
The striker made his senior team breakthrough in Republic of Ireland’s 2-2 draw with Celtic in Scott Brown’s testimonial match and will be hoping to prove doubters wrong and prove his motive is bigger than career opportunism.
Highlighted Team (Hull City):
Hull City are a professional football club that was founded back in 1904. The Tigers used to play their home games at Boothferry Park, but they moved to the KC Stadium in 2002. The stadium capacity is 24,450.
Hull impressed in the 2015/2016 Championship campaign and, as a result, they returned to the English Premier League. Hull City fans consider Leeds United their main rivals, but Sheffield United are regarded as Hull’s fierce rivals as well. Steve Bruce took over the reins at the club in 2012 and the experienced tactician helped the team book a place in the 2013/2014 FA Cup final, but Arsenal proved to be a big catch for the Tigers in the title decider.
Hull City finished the 2013/2014 Premier League campaign in 16th place in the standings to achieve their highest ever top flight finish. It has to be noted that Curtis Davies was named the team’s player of the year in the 2013/2014 season.