Leicester City vs Hull City - prediction, team news, lineups

Second-from-bottom Leicester City welcome Hull City to the King Power Stadium connected Tuesday nighttime successful a important clash astatine some ends of the Championship table.

The Foxes were near staring astatine relegation pursuing a 1-0 decision to Portsmouth, leaving them 8 points adrift of information with conscionable 3 games remaining, portion the Tigers extended their winless tally to 4 matches aft a 1-1 gully with Birmingham City.

Match preview

Following their relegation from the Premier League past season, Leicester City would person entered the 2025-26 run with hopes of warring it retired astatine the apical extremity of the table. 

Instead, with lone 3 matches remaining, Gary Rowett’s broadside are connected the verge of back-to-back relegations and look the precise existent imaginable of dropping into League One for the archetypal clip since 2009.

Marti Cifuentes, Andy King and present Rowett person each shared the dugout arsenic Foxes manager this play and failed to make the consistency needed to steer the erstwhile Premier League champions wide of danger.

With clip moving retired and 2 of their remaining fixtures coming against top-six opposition, Leicester’s hopes of endurance look slim, with their 11 league wins proving costly.

Their latest setback came astatine Fratton Park, wherever a 1-0 decision not lone dented their ain endurance hopes but besides boosted a nonstop rival, arsenic Portsmouth moved 7 points wide of the bottommost three.

As for Hull City, they are competing astatine the different extremity of the array with hopes of ending the run successful the apical six. 

Despite a scare with relegation themselves past season, the Tigers appointed Sergej Jakirovic arsenic their manager past summertime who has led his broadside to 20 wins, 11 draws and 15 losses successful his 46 matches successful the dugout. 

The awesome play means they caput into their last 3 games successful sixth, with their 69 points giving them a two-point cushion implicit seventh placed Wrexham. 

With that said, Jakirovic's broadside travel into their run-in retired of signifier and successful request of uncovering immoderate much-needed momentum earlier they tin program immoderate imaginable playoff semi-finals. 

A 1-1 gully astatine location to Birmingham City astatine the play ensured they continued their propulsion to a apical six decorativeness with a stutter, with the gully meaning they are winless successful 4 and Tuesday nighttime volition beryllium precisely a period connected since their past league victory. 

Tuesday’s fixture comes precisely a period aft their past league victory, and a instrumentality to winning ways present could spot them unfastened up a five-point cushion wrong the apical six and instrumentality a important measurement towards securing a playoff spot and a tiny measurement person to a instrumentality to the Premier League. 

Leicester City Championship form:

L D D D L L 

Hull City Championship form:

L W D D L D

Team News

Leicester person appeared to travel distant from their play decision with nary further injuries, nevertheless Rowett whitethorn beryllium tempted to alteration things up to ignite the occurrence they desperately need.

Despite that, they are without the antiaircraft trio of Ben Nelson, Caleb Okoli and Victor Kristiansen.

Jordan James has been a tiny agleam spark successful what has been an different dismal season, the Welsh midfielder is expected to travel successful for his archetypal commencement since sustaining an wounded setback. 

As for the visitors, they besides person the luxury of naming the aforesaid XI erstwhile again arsenic they sustained nary further wounded blows. 

Oli McBurnie and Joe Gelhardt, some connected 14 league goals this season, volition support their spots successful onslaught and look to proceed their escaped scoring form. 

John Lundstram missed the play brushwood done suspension but has present served his clip and tin beryllium selected successful midfield erstwhile again. 

However, the Tigers stay without Cody Drameh, Regan Slater, Ryan Giles and David Akintola, each of whom are sidelined done injury.

Leicester City imaginable starting lineup:

Begovic; R. Pereira, Lascelles, Vestergaard, Thomas; James, Winks; Fatawu, De Cordova-Reid, Mavididi; Daka

Hull City imaginable starting lineup:

Pandur; Coyle, Ajayi, Egan, McNair; Hadziahmetovic, Crooks; Belloumi, Gelhardt, Millar; McBurnie

We say: Leicester City 0-2 Hull City

At other ends of the array and contrasting aims for however they privation to extremity the season, we spot high-flying Hull City returning to winning ways with a comfy distant victory. 

For information investigation of the astir apt results, scorelines and much for this lucifer delight click here.