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**** Hull City v Brighton & Hove Albion Official Match Thread ****



Feb 23, 2009
22,840
Brighton factually.....
Championship
Venue: KC StadiumDate: Saturday 18 AugustKick-off: 15:00 BST

TEAM NEWS
Hull striker Matty Fryatt will miss the opening game of the season with an Achilles injury so Aaron McLean is set to deputise up front.

New signing Sone Aluko has not received international clearance to play.

Brighton striker Craig Mackail-Smith missed the League Cup with a groin problem but should be fit to start.

Winger Kazenga LuaLua (hamstring) should also return and Will Buckley may shake off a hamstring injury in time for the match.

MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head

• Both last season's clashes were goalless draws.

• Brighton have not registered an away win over the Tigers for 12 years.

• Hull have avoided defeat in nine of their last 11 home league meetings with the Seagulls, and have kept clean sheets in eight of the 11.

Hull City

• Kicking off a third season outside the Premier League.

• Steve Bruce is one of five managers appointed by Championship clubs in the close season.

• Eager to avoid a fifth opening day league defeat in seven seasons.

Brighton & Hove Albion

• 10th last season was the Seagulls' highest league finish in 21 years.

• Gus Poyet's men, who lost 3-0 away to League One Swindon in the Capital One Cup midweek, collected 16 points from the first 18 available last term.

• Drawn 499 away league games and scored 1997 league goals on the road in their history, but not won on their league travels since 11 February.

Matty Fryatt will miss out for Hull after sustaining an Achilles injury in the Capital One Cup penalty shootout win over Rotherham last weekend.

The striker is expected to be replaced in Steve Bruce's starting line-up by Aaron Mclean.

Sone Aluko, a summer signing from Rangers, must wait a little longer for his competitive Tigers debut as the club are still without international clearance, but new Swiss goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic has been cleared to play and should be included in the squad.

Bruce, who has no other new injury or suspension worries, must decide whether to include son Alex on the substitutes' bench again, while fellow summer signings Ben Amos, Abdoulaye Faye and £2.6million signing from German side SC Paderborn, Nick Proschwitz, are all hoping to make their league debuts for the Tigers.

Craig Mackail-Smith and Kazenga LuaLua should return to the Brighton squad.

Striker Mackail-Smith missed Tuesday's Capital One Cup defeat at Swindon with a groin problem and winger LuaLua had a tight hamstring, but Gus Poyet says both are available.

Wideman Will Buckley is also close to shaking off his hamstring trouble but Poyet is not expected to risk him just yet.

Forward Will Hoskins is still sidelined with the broken foot he suffered during pre-season.

Goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak and full-backs Bruno and Wayne Bridge will be handed their league debuts after making their first competitive appearances in midweek, while Adam El-Abd is pushing to return at centre-half after being left on the bench at the County Ground
 


Mackenzie

Old Brightonian
Nov 7, 2003
33,508
East Wales
You're taking a chance aren't you with that thread title :jester:
 


The Terminator

New member
Aug 7, 2010
1,419
We can't score, they have a top class defence. They are missing their top scorer, both matches last season 0-0. 5-5 written all over this.
 








Acker79

Well-known member
NSC Patreon
Nov 15, 2008
31,765
Brighton
Already? This is early.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to listen to the game this afternoon, have some gardening to do and don't know if I can get the radio out there...
 


seagullsovergrimsby

#cpfctinpotclub
Aug 21, 2005
43,690
Crap Town
come on you super seagulls
 








glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick
Nov 29, 2005
20,261
somewhere in Eastbourne
Already? This is early.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to listen to the game this afternoon, have some gardening to do and don't know if I can get the radio out there...

leave it indoors and turn it up full ,sure the neighbours won't mind
 


DanielT

Well-known member
Sitting on the 11.48 train haven't left kings cross yet. Delay with signalling. Would've got there at 14.20, but now it'll be a brisk jog/taxi to the ground


On the plus side... free wifi onboard and Albion roar on tunein radio!
 




Smithy

Well-known member
Apr 26, 2009
3,400
Hove
So what starting line-up are we expecting?

Same as Swindon except:

Crofts for Dicker?
Lua-Lua for Noone?
CMS for Harley?
 


wellquickwoody

Many More Voting Years
NSC Patreon
Aug 10, 2007
13,585
Melbourne
Seeing as the nights are beginning to close in now, will the pitch begin to freeze towards the end of the second half? Long way north up there you know.
 


Napper

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
23,858
Sussex
Whatever happens at least tonight NSC will be full of chat about The Albion all be it being either

a)we lose - we are going to struggle big time
b)we win - we are real contenders for the Top 2
c)we draw - a mixture of the above with multiple flounces and a few bans
 






murciagull

Active member
Nov 27, 2006
878
Murcia
So if we draw 3-3 it would be our 500 th away draw and the last goal would be our 2000th on the road
 










severnside gull

Well-known member
May 16, 2007
24,540
By the seaside in West Somerset
Going to be away from computer this afternoon so hope this is a lucky thread as I will be following on the phone
 



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