Richard Ricardo gives us his match preview ahead of the Wigan Athletic v Hull City clash on Tuesday evening at the DW Stadium
Next up Hull.
After that bummer of a result and our last ever visit to Griffin Park,
what can we look forward to against Hull at DW?
Those magnificent 1000 traveling fans who went south to Brentford should
be rewarded for their efforts with another exciting but more satisfying game on
Tuesday night. Hull now in 17th position, but prior to their win over Ipswich
on Saturday were just one place above the relegation zone hopefully isn't going
to lull us all into a sense of false security.
Hull sit above directly above QPR, whilst Aston Villa are one place below
us, and we all know what happened at Loftus Road and Villa Park. Not again
please, Paul Cook.
Any Previous?
Results between Hull and the Latics are pretty equal but they do weigh
slightly in our favour
21 meetings with us winning 9,
drawing and losing 6.
Important and memorable scorers include Ben Watson and Steve Ghohouri.
Others by Amr Zaki, Heskey and Valencia. On the Zaki occasion luckily he bothered
to turn up; he scored 2.
Team News
Still in their recovery phase are Dan Burn is Superman and Gavin Massey.
With no other injuries Cook has a pretty full squad to select from. I
wonder if it will be time for a bit of rotation, or is he sticking with the
'tried and tested' in an aim to consolidate our position near the top of the
table.
Having said that there is likely to be an enforced change following the
straight red to Sam Morsy. It seems as the decision may be
a bit contentious, so we'll see if Cook appeals.
Certainly from my angle in the sitting room at home it looked like an
innocent, unintentional but thumping collision of the heads as both players
missed the ball going for a header. A bit like wilderbeast sparring over a
local female.
Maybe next time Sam should fall like a dying lion shot by a dentist and
the other guy would get sent off.
There is always a learning point.
Prediction
25 minutes after sunset, under the bright flood lights of the DW the team
will make their way out onto the verdant, verona green pitch to the mighty roar
of the expectant fans. Under the forecast broken clouds and first quarter of
the moon, always a time for celestial blessings and good luck, giraffe like I'm
sticking my neck out and predicting a 4 - 0 win.
Jacobs, Kipre, Grigg and someone else.
It'll be another high tempo game with plenty of attacking. Robinson will
be surging forward frequently. Kipre and James will be back and forth. Powell
will look indulgently relaxed. Vaughan will be like and 13 year old after too
much tatrozine.
Wigan are planning on adding to Hull's woes, who have only won 2 game so
far. As for Hull we can expect Marshall to be marshaling his goal line; are we
going to see one of our underrated and under used players Nouha Dicko after a great spell at Wolves; amazingly I see that
Hull have none other than Kane in their ranks; I assume it is Harry.
Since relegation funds have been less and I see they have an aged
Kingsley in mid-field, Ben I assume, last seen playing Mahatma Ghandi in the
film Ghandi in 1982.
It was only 10 years ago that Dean Windass came on as substitute for
Hull, against us. He didn't score on that occasion, but let’s hope that his son
can change that bit of history with a scorcher of a goal similar to the one his
Dad scored at Wembley to clinch Hull's promotion to the Prem.
For us I'm expecting; Walton, Robinson, Kipre, Jacobs, James,
Macmamamamum, Powell, Grigg, Vaughan, Dunkley, Windass, and Connolly to come on
at 45 mins.
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I'm going for a 3-2 Latics win every game this season!
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