📊 Form Guide

Hull City

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Hull City will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 1-3 Championship defeat last time out to Queens Park Rangers.

In that match, Hull City had 59% possession and 14 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. For Hull City, goals were scored by Paddy McNair (21' Own goal) and Joe Gelhardt (39'). Queens Park Rangers got 12 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Daniel Bennie (84') and Richard Kone (95') scored for Queens Park Rangers.

In their past six games, Sergej Jakirović's Hull City have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 6 times which gives them an average number of goals per match of 1.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Hull City:

• have not beaten Derby County in their last 6 matches in the league.
• have not won at home in their last 3 league games.

Derby County

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After tasting defeat last time out to Watford in Championship competition, Derby County and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Derby County managed 55% possession and 5 shots at goal with 1 on target. For their opponents, Watford had 18 shots on goal with 8 on target. Luca Kjerrumgaard (5') and Mamadou Doumbia (90') scored for Watford.

In their previous 6 clashes, Derby County have helped themselves to a total of 12 goals. Derby County have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. During those fixtures, their defenders have seen 4 goals go against them.

Coming into this clash, Derby County haven't been defeated by Hull City when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head results stretching back to 18/01/2020 tells us that these fixtures have not been kind to Hull City. They have not been able to get themselves any victories at all whereas Derby County have been the better of the two, finishing as winners in 83 per cent of those matches played.

An aggregate of 12 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 3 of them for The Tigers and 9 coming from The Rams. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The previous league match between these clubs was Championship match day 14 on 04/11/2025 and the score finished Derby County 2-1 Hull City.

On that day, Derby County had 44% possession and 9 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorers were Carlton Morris (27') and Lars-Jørgen Salvesen (83').

On the other side, Hull City had 8 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Joel Ndala (50') was the scorer.

The referee was Stephen Martin.

ℹ️ Team News: Hull City

Oli McBurnie (Calf injury), Eliot Matazo (Cruciate ligament injury), Darko Gyabi (Groin injury) and Mohamed Belloumi (Torn thigh muscle) won’t be playing for Hull City manager Sergej Jakirović.

In our view, The Tigers will possibly use a 4-2-3-1 formation this time and select Ivor Pandur, Lewie Coyle, Patrick McNair, John Egan, Ryan Giles, Amir Hadziahmetovic, Regan Slater, Kieran Dowell, Joe Gelhardt, Liam Millar and Oliver McBurnie.

📋 Team News: Derby County

Derby County manager John Eustace has some current player fitness concerns. Max Johnston (Hamstring injury), Jaydon Banel (Ill), Sondre Langås (Hamstring injury) and Jacob Widell Zetterström (Ill) miss out here.

We’re of the thinking that The Rams could decide to utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting the game with Josh Vickers, Joe Ward, Dion Sanderson, Matt Clarke, Craig Forsyth, David Ozoh, Lewis Travis, Ben Brereton Díaz, Samuel Szmodics, Rhian Brewster and Carlton Morris.

🧠 Prediction

Derby County will likely be able to find the back of the net against this Hull City side, however it might not quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We reckon that it will be a narrow 2-1 advantage for Hull City when the full-time whistle blows. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

Renata Leite, 15:04 24/02/2026