Hull City vs Huddersfield — Championship 2018
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on xG from last 12+ matches
Hull City44%
Huddersfield30%✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 50.2% correct across 585,598 matches, vs 44.5% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.5% correct · Away picks 49.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Hull City creates 26% more chances
Season form · 54 home / 12 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Under54
- Over46
Fewer than 3 goals likely
Both teams score
- No50
- Yes50
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Hull City ↓
Most likely 1–1 (13%) · grid covers 98% of scorelines
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Hull City at home — creates 1.31, concedes 1.26 · 54 matches
Huddersfield away — creates 0.96, concedes 1.49 · 12 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Hull City attack 1.31 + Huddersfield defence 1.49 → ÷2 → 1.40
Huddersfield attack 0.96 + Hull City defence 1.26 → ÷2 → 1.11
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 44%?"
Hull City at 44% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 44% does not mean "Hull City will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Player of the match
Match Events
Hull City substitutes
Head to Head
5 previous meetings
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Ipswich
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MiddlesbroughHull City
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Leicester
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Oxford United
Sheffield WednesdayIf points are equal: 1. Goal difference 2. Goals scored 3. Head-to-head
P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
Possession
Shots
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Statistics
Hull City host Huddersfield on Tuesday, 28 January 2020 at 19:45. The match is part of the Championship 2018/2019 season.
Match Recap: Hull City vs Huddersfield
Huddersfield beat Hull City 2-1 in Championship on January 28, 2020.
Goals: K. Ahearne-Grant (24'), R. Tafazolli (66'), S. Mounié (90+6').
Huddersfield controlled possession (53%) and registered 13 shots to 20.
The match was played at KCOM Stadium in Hull.