Middlesbrough 3-1 Hull City: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 20 February 2018
Result
Middlesbrough 3-1 Hull City
Championship · Tuesday 20 February 2018, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-1
Middlesbrough 3-1 Hull City: match report
Middlesbrough defeated Hull City 3-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 20 February 2018. The half-time score was 2-1.
Rudy Gestede opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Middlesbrough's goals came from Rudy Gestede (16'), P. Bamford (45') and Rudy Gestede (58'). Hull City scored through Evandro (41').
Discipline: Middlesbrough received 1 yellow card; Hull City received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Middlesbrough were 9th on 48 points from 32 and Hull City 21st on 29 points from 31. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 6th with 77 points, and Hull City 18th with 49.
Middlesbrough lined up in a 4-3-3 and Hull City in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Rudy Gestede of Middlesbrough (9.2), ahead of Adama Traoré (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Middlesbrough wins, 0 draws and 4 for Hull City.
Going into the match Middlesbrough's last five read L-W-L-D-W and Hull City's W-L-D-L-D.
Key events
- 16'Goal · Rudy Gestede
- 35'Yellow card · Rudy Gestede
- 41'Goal · Evandro
- 45'Goal · P. Bamford
- 58'Goal · Rudy Gestede
- 88'Yellow card · Michael Dawson
Head-to-head
Team news
Middlesbrough line-up (4-3-3)
Darren Randolph, George Friend, Yuki Takahashi, Ryan Shotton, Dael Fry, Grant Leadbitter, Stewart Downing, M. Bešić, Patrick Bamford, Adama Traoré, Rudy Gestede
Hull City line-up (3-5-2)
Allan McGregor, Michael Hector, Michael Dawson, A. MacDonald, Jackson Irvine, Jon Toral, Evandro, Fikayo Tomori, Ola Aina, Will Keane, Fraizer Campbell