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da pinnacle： Last season: It is a brand new beginning for Hull as they are returning to the Premier League after a three-year absence and may change their name to the Hull City Tigers, as announced by club owner Assem Allam.
In last season’s Championship, the Tigers managed to finish second and automatically qualify to the big leagues alongside Cardiff City, who finished eight points ahead of Hull. The Yorkshire club avoided the play offs by just two points ahead of Watford, who finished third.
Manchester United veteran Steve Bruce managed to lead his team to 24 wins in 46 matches, just one less than the Bluebirds, but lost 15 matches. Hull managed to get 11 wins in away games and only lose 9 however the home advantage didn’t work very well as, even though they won 13 matches, they also lost six.
The goal-scoring ratio also shows that the Tigers saw quite a lot of competition as they scored 61 goals and conceded 52, where 30 of them were on away games.
Transfer Ins:
Yannick Sagbo (Evian)
Steve Harper (Newcastle)
Allan McGregor (Besiktas)
Curtis Davies (Birmingham City)
Ahmed Elmohamady (Sunderland)
George Boyd (Peterborough United)
Maynor Figueroa (Wigan)
Transfer Outs:
Corry Evans (Blackburn Rovers)
Danny Emerton (Northampton Town)
Jamie Devitt (Chesterfield)
Francis McCaffrey (Dundalk)
Sonny Bradley (Portsmouth)
Mark Cullen (Luton Town)
Jay Simpson
Danny East (Portsmouth)
Andy Dawson (Scunthorpe United)
Seyi Olofinjana
Paul McKenna
Player to watch: Robert Koren managed to score the most goals for Hull as the Slovenian midfielder hit the target nine times. His teammate, George Boyd managed to score the exact same amount but only three of those were for the Tigers as he joined the team last February on loan from Peterborough United.
The former Slovenia international could prove to be useful for Bruce however it would also be interesting to keep an eye on the new acquisitions, such as former Championnat player Yannick Sagbo, who made 90 appearances and scored 22 goals with Evian and is also an Ivory Coast international.
Former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa is also expected to help the team with his Premier League experience and perhaps become the leader of the defense. The Honduran is well-known and remembered by all English fans for his incredible goal against Stoke, four years ago. The 30-year-old’s free kick from the centre of the field won Goal of the Season 2009-2010.
Young player to watch: Tottenham’s Jake Livermore will be playing on loan for the Tigers this season and even though Andre Villas-Boas didn’t include him in his plans this season he still has some faith in the 23-year-old as he might be hoping that the youngster will improve and get much more experience in the field. Since 2011 the young midfielder has been moving around on loan but still counts 36 appearances with Spurs and also caught the attention of the England national team where he played for the Three Lions in a match against Italy a year ago.
Prediction: Just like the other two former Championship teams that qualified, Cardiff and Crystal Palace, Hull are expected to improve and up their game for this season to stay and fight for another season.
The team has made quite a few changes that are expected to bring the club into the Premier League level that is inquired for this season. The Tigers seem perfectly able to score goals but they also seem like they are no strangers to conceding a high number of goals from the opposing club. That is something that the teams will have to work hard on with the defense and midfield as they will be facing a lot harder teams than those in the Championship, such as their very first opponents Chelsea.
Based on the other teams’ progress one could assume that Hull feature quite a mystery for this year’s Premier League. We all know that it is impossible that Bruce’s team will finish on the Top 5 positions but it could be possible that they avoid relegation. For now though, the numbers are not very convincing. Nevertheless, the rest will be left to be discussed on the field.
Our prediction : 19th place.
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