Tigers Ready For Carvery

It’s a battle between two struggling teams but the good news heading into this fixture mainly comes for the hosts.

Steve Bruce can welcome back strikers Nikica Jelavic and Abel Hernandez and perhaps one of them will make the difference in what promises to be a tight contest.

Hull City home matches only average 2.20 goals in total this season and that number would be even lower were it not for a freaky 4-2 victory for Man City back in September. The last four league results at the KC Stadium have been 2-0, 0-1, 0-1 and 0-0. This tells us the sort of encounter we should expect.

Newcastle now have one of their own, John Carver in charge for the rest of the season and while that may make him preferable to Alan Pardew to many Geordies, he has plenty to prove. The new boss’s caretaker stint produced one draw followed by three defeats.

The Magpies only scored one goal in those three defeats and it’s asking a lot for Papiss Cisse to make an immediate impact having just returned from the African Cup of Nations.

Instead I fancy Hull to claim a vital three points with a 1-0 win; that scoreline’s available at 6/1 with Betfred who will give us our money back if it ends 1-1 instead.

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