Hull City V Man City Preview: Battle of the Brazilians
Hull City take on Man City at the KC Stadium today and this fixture has a very Brazilian feel to it.
Hull manager Phil Brown's preparations have been affected with the alleged spat between Marlon King and Dean Windass. The incident has been denied, but that's not the only problem for the Tigers as they will be without defender Andy Dawson for the game.
Man City have their own problems with Gelson Fernandes, and Richard Dunne both out with suspensions. Daniel Sturridge is a doubt with an ankle injury, but Vincent Kompany should return after a groin problem.
Hull's Assistant Manager Brian Horton said: "When we played Chelsea, even Luiz Felipe Scolari said that it's sometimes harder to play at home.
"At home is where you need your top players to perform and to get on the ball. It's about bravery and by that we don't just mean winning tackles and headers. It's about getting on the ball.
"People want you to take the game to the opposition when you're at home. We have to give the crowd something to shout about."
Manchester City's Shaun Wright-Phillips was in a confident mood, he said: "Morale is high, everyone is raring to go in training and we cannot wait for the next games to come along.
"We have been playing some good football and we just need to put a run of results together."
Team News looks like this:
Hull (from): Myhill, McShane, Turner, Zayatte, Dawson, Marney, Hughes, Boateng, Geovanni, King, Cousin, Barmby, Garcia, Windass, Mendy, Halmosi, Folan, Ricketts, Giannakopoulos, Duke, Ashbee.
Man City (from): Hart, Schmeichel, Zabaleta, Onouha, Richards, Ben Haim, Garrido, Wright-Phillips, Ireland, Kompany, Elano, Robinho, Jo, Hamann, Evans, Benjani, Vassell, Caicedo, Berti.
Not many results for Head to Head
Home and away
League (inc PL): Hull 3 wins, Man City 5, Draws 4
Prem: Hull 0 wins, Man City 0, Draws 0
at Hull only
League (inc PL): Hull 3 wins, Man City 1, Draws 2
Prem: Hull 0 wins, Man City 0, Draws 0
The Referee is Phil Dowd from Stoke on Trent.
Prediction 1-1: Hull due a result and Manchester city are hopeless away from home.
