Hull City vs Nice - prediction, team news, lineups

Hull City volition wrapper up their pre-season docket successful Saturday's affable against Nice astatine the MKM Stadium. 

The Tigers are looking guardant to their archetypal Premier League play successful 10 years, portion the French visitors are acceptable to proceed their 24-year enactment successful Ligue 1 aft avoiding the driblet past term. 

Match preview

Hull supporters volition beryllium counting down the days to adjacent Friday's Premier League opener against 20-time English champions Manchester United.

The Tigers are backmost competing with England's biggest clubs aft coming done a melodramatic variation of the Championship playoffs.

After finishing successful sixth spot, Hull got the amended of third-placed Millwall earlier they claimed a constrictive 1-0 triumph successful the Wembley showdown with Middlesbrough, who had been precocious to the last aft Southampton were thrown retired for the Spygate scandal.

Hull person been engaged adding to their squad since May's final, splashing the currency connected Lucas Herrington, Konstantinos Tzolakis and Nobel Mendy arsenic their 3 astir costly additions of a model that has seen them motion 9 players. 

On the pitch, Sergej Jakirovic's broadside began their pre-season docket with games against 3 Turkish sides, which saw them grounds back-to-back wins implicit Konyaspor and Caykur Rizespor earlier playing retired a 1-1 gully against Kasimpasa.

After losing 2-0 to Eintracht Frankfurt successful their astir caller outing, Hull person 1 last accidental to physique momentum and assurance up of their archetypal gathering with Man United since drafting 0-0 astatine Old Trafford successful February 2017. 

Nice, meanwhile, volition beryllium hoping to debar different relegation combat aft requiring a playoff to sphere their Ligue 1 presumption past term.

The Eagles mustered 32 points successful 34 games successful the 2025-26 campaign, which near them 8 points wide of automatic relegation but 2 points adrift of safety.

They played retired a goalless gully successful the archetypal limb of their promotion/relegation playoff against Ligue 2 broadside Saint-Etienne, earlier they ran retired 4-1 winners successful the location limb to debar a astonishment relegation.

They volition commencement the caller run with a caput coach, Olivier Pantaloni, and 2 caller players successful midfielder Laurent Abergel and winger Gauthier Hein.

Pantaloni's broadside started pre-season with commanding victories implicit Nimes and Marseille, earlier falling to a 2-0 decision to Juventus and drawing 0-0 with Cagliari, who they past mislaid to successful the consequent punishment shootout. 

Nice volition beryllium aiming to instrumentality to winning ways earlier they footwear disconnected the caller Ligue 1 play with a location crippled against Lorient, the squad Pantaloni near astatine the extremity of past season. 

Hull City Club pre-season friendlies form:

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Nice Club pre-season friendlies form:

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Team News

Hull are contending with an wounded situation that leaves Jakirovic without the services of Charlie Hughes, Cody Drameh, Oscar Zambrano, Darko Gyabi and Eliot Matazo.

Jack Butland, who arrived from Rangers earlier this summer, is expected to beryllium retired for astir 3 months aft suffering an limb injury.

There are besides doubts implicit the availability of John Egan, Enis Destan, Paddy McNair, Hidemasa Morita, Jens Hjerto-Dahl and Liam Millar. 

As for Nice, they person been dealt a large stroke with the quality that Abergel could miss the full play aft sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury. 

Mohamed-Ali Cho is improbable to diagnostic contempt seeing a projected determination to Hull autumn done earlier this week. 

Victor Orakpo is acceptable to pb the enactment aft shaking disconnected an wounded contented to marque a substitute quality against Cagliari. 

Hull City imaginable starting lineup:

Tzolakis; Coyle, Ajayi, Mendy, Giles; Slater, Crooks; Belloumi, Dowell, Akintola; McBurnie

Nice imaginable starting lineup:

Diouf; Koutoune, Ndayishimiye, Mandza Tsiendi; Clauss, Camara, Coulibaly, Bard; Jansson, Diop; Orakpo

We say: Hull City 2-1 Nice

Hull whitethorn beryllium dealing with a important wounded list, but they inactive person capable prime successful their squad to get the amended of a squad that inactive has the bulk of the squad that were progressive successful a relegation conflict past term.

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