Match Day Hull v Villa

[Blitzballer]

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Jackson Irvine and Kamil Grosicki are likely to miss Hull's Sky Bet Championship opener at home to Aston Villa, live on Sky Sports Footballfrom 7pm on Monday.
Irvine has been ill and Grosicki has had to deal with some "personal issues", according to Tigers boss Nigel Adkins, meaning neither has trained much since returning from the World Cup.
Ondrej Mazuch and James Weir (both knee) are also out for Hull. Reece Burke, George Long, Manuel Milinkovic and Jordy de Wijs are among those ready for their debuts.

Steve Bruce remains in charge at Villa after their summer takeover, ahead of the trip to the KC Stadium. Jack Grealish is still at Villa and should play, despite being linked with a move to Tottenham ahead of next Thursday’s deadline.
Scott Hogan has missed all of Villa’s pre-season friendlies with a groin problem and will not face the Tigers while Rushian Hepburn-Murphy (ankle) is out. Youngster Callum O’Hare is also battling a knee injury and is likely to be absent for Bruce’s side.

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Hull have won one of their last 14 games against Aston Villa in all competitions (D3 L10), a 2-0 home win in February 2015.
Aston Villa are winless in their last three away league visits to Hull (D2 L1), failing to score despite attempting 40 shots across those three matches.
Hull and Aston Villa also met on the opening day of last season, sharing a 1-1 draw at Villa Park.

Outside the top-flight, current Aston Villa boss Steve Bruce has won four of his last five opening day matches (D1), last losing in 2000-01 against Watford as Huddersfield Town manager.
Hull are playing their first match of the season on a Monday for the first time since a 1-0 defeat to Leyton Orient in September 1907, while Aston Villa kick the season off on a Monday for the first time since September 1913.
The losing play-off finalists from the previous season's Championship final have only lost on the opening day of the next season in one of the last 10 seasons - but that occurred last season, when Reading lost 2-0 to QPR.

Prutton's prediction
What will the atmosphere be like at Aston Villa after that play-off final defeat? Their problems off the pitch, at least in the short term, appear to have been sorted out, but there is still work to do. Holding on to Jack Grealish would be a huge boost for them.
Hull have lost most of their first-team squad from last season and they've not yet been replaced. This could be a really difficult season for the Tigers. Away win.
Prutton predicts: 1-2 with Jonathan Kodjia to score first

 

[mistermagic]

Game's live in France, so I'll give this a watch. Really looking forward to see how Thierry Henry does in his 1st real managerial position. Oh wait a minute!

Hope Hull have a better start than last season (7 points from 7 games) and maybe surprise a few by a top half finish maybe play-offs. Adkins did steady the ship and has experience at promoting a side from this division so you never know.

Not quite sure what to expect this evening. Villa will be disappointed having missed out on promotion and need to keep at it before the parachute payments stop (if they haven't already) in order to keep a high wage structure.

Let's say 1-1 for this one.

 

[villa loyal]

Left Oxford about an hour ago, so should get in and showered just in time to go out and watch it, I hope. I'd love us to put in a really convincing display and take the 3 points. I just think it's going to be the same frustrating football we've seen over the last two years. That's not to say I don't think we will win, but I think a draw is the safe bet. 1.1

 

[JJH]

Some awful defending on show here first 20 minutes.

 

[villa loyal]

Slow, and very scrappy. Very frustrating to watch so far. Just get the win villa.

 

[YorkshireRed20]

This Jordy de Wijs fella is pretty poor imo. Not covered himself in glory.

Villa fans, yay or nay on Jed Steer, you've already signed Moreira and Nyland is close, thoughts?

 

[villa loyal]

Steer does not cut it for me. Decent shot stopper, but his overall commanding his area lets him down. Will be fighting Moreira for second choice.

 

[YorkshireRed20]

Steer does not cut it for me. Decent shot stopper, but his overall commanding his area lets him down. Will be fighting Moreira for second choice.

By all accounts he wasn't all that in pre-season too. Shame you couldn't keep hold of Johnstone.

 

[mistermagic]

Thought Hull played ok in that half. Villa didn't do much apart from benefit from a defensive blunder by the new boy at the back (well, they're all new). Villa better hope they don't sell Grealish. Not much going on in terms of creativity with the other players.

 

[villa loyal]

Thought Hull played ok in that half. Villa didn't do much apart from benefit from a defensive blunder by the new boy at the back (well, they're all new). Villa better hope they don't sell Grealish. Not much going on in terms of creativity with the other players.

We won't make the play offs. We are a much weaker team this season, imo.

 

[villa loyal]

By all accounts he wasn't all that in pre-season too. Shame you couldn't keep hold of Johnstone.

He's not all that full stop. Big shame, but hopefully one of our new keepers turn out ok.

 

[Super_horns]

Old boy scoring against former club - and non celebration.

 

[villa loyal]

Get in. Great scenes in the away end.

 

[Blitzballer]

scottish cafu

 

[villa loyal]

Got to love Hutton. Proud to put on the jersey every game.

 

[mistermagic]

Not sure what to make of this defeat. Villa scored 2 very similar goals to win the game but the game could have ended 1-1 with more serious defending. Going forward, Hull were not great but not worse than Villa. Just the quality players missing.

We shall see.

 

[villa loyal]

Not much in it, and the result flatters us. Good win in the end though, and just what we needed.