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 · Hull City · Championship predictions

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.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Goal · Rudy GestedeMiddlesbrough · 1-0
  • 35'Yellow card · Rudy GestedeMiddlesbrough
  • 41'Goal · EvandroHull City · 1-1
  • 45'Goal · P. BamfordMiddlesbrough · 2-1
  • 58'Goal · Rudy GestedeMiddlesbrough · 3-1
  • 88'Yellow card · Michael DawsonHull City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Middlesbrough 6, draws 0, Hull City 4.

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