📊 Form Guide

Hull City

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Hull City, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 0-2 Championship Play-offs triumph against Millwall.

In that match, Hull City managed 34% possession and 14 shots on goal with 7 on target. For Hull City, goals were scored by Mohamed Belloumi (64') and Joe Gelhardt (79'). Millwall got 10 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target.

In their past 6 fixtures, Sergej Jakirović's Hull City have found the net 8 times, an average number of goals per match equal to 1.33.

Middlesbrough

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Southampton in Championship Play-offs competition, Middlesbrough and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Middlesbrough had 40% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorer for Middlesbrough was Riley McGree (5'). At the other end, Southampton had 20 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Ross Stewart (45') and Shea Charles (116') scored for Southampton. Southampton ran out winners in extra time.

Kim Hellberg's Middlesbrough have turned their attacks into goals 11 times in the course of their previous 6 matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those matches adds up to 7.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 13/12/2023 shows us that Hull City have won 2 of these & Middlesbrough 3, with the tally of draws being 1.

A sum of 18 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for The Tigers and 11 netted by The Boro. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The last league contest featuring these clubs was Championship match day 24 on 29/12/2025 when the final score was Middlesbrough 0-1 Hull City.

In that game, Middlesbrough managed 71% possession and 23 shots at goal with 5 of them on target.

Hull City had 4 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Darko Gyabi (12') scored.

The match was refereed by Leigh Doughty.

📰 Team News: Hull City

Amir Hadziahmetovic (Knee injury), Darko Gyabi (Groin injury) and Eliot Matazo (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be playing for Hull City boss Sergej Jakirović.

We think that The Tigers may well line up in a 3-4-2-1 system in the match with Ivor Pandur, Semi Ajayi, John Egan, Charlie Hughes, Lewie Coyle, Regan Slater, Matt Crooks, Ryan Giles, Joe Gelhardt, Liam Millar and Oli McBurnie.

📋 Team News: Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough boss Kim Hellberg has a number of players out of action. Hayden Hackney (unknown injury), Alfie Jones (Ankle injury) and Darragh Lenihan (Ankle surgery) are not able to play.

From our viewpoint, The Boro seem likely to begin the game with a 3-4-2-1 formation using Solomon Brynn, Luke Ayling, Dael Fry, Adilson Malanda, Callum Brittain, Aidan Morris, Riley McGree, Matt Targett, Morgan Whittaker, Sontje Hansen and David Strelec.

🧠 Prediction

In our opinion, Hull City could well find it tough to find the net against this Middlesbrough lineup who we reckon should be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very even match with a 0-1 advantage for Middlesbrough after 90 minutes.

Let’s see what happens.

Peter Guest, 01:00 23/05/2026