The Tigers have been one of the Championship’s surprise packages so far
Hull City sit eighth in the Championship after 12 games and continue to defy the pre-season predictions that had them down as relegation fodder.
City were moments away from notching up a fourth straight Championship win on Saturday, only denied another home win by Luke Berry’s 91st-minute goal.
Had City seen the game out, as it looked like they were going to do, they’d be sitting pretty in fifth place, just three points off an automatic spot and Jakirovic up for Manager of the Month after winning all four games in October.
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Their one defeat in the last eight games came at Watford, and in truth, that shouldn’t have happened given they were leading 1-0 at half-time and should have gone on to win that one, but still, that record isn’t bad at all.
City’s biggest worry remains around keeping key players fit, with the list of influential performers absent growing at an alarming rate, with Liam Millar the latest to succumb just weeks after returning from his ACL injury.
Despite that fine start, however, the latest supercomputer prediction doesn’t believe the Tigers will maintain their challenge for the top six, and has them falling away in the coming weeks.
According to AceOdds, the model simulated the Championship league season 100,000 times, taking into account all match results from pre-season and the current campaign. It projects outcomes based on pre-season expectations, fixture difficulty, and underlying performance metrics such as xG for and against.
Based on that, it decided City would finish 15th, 10 points off the number needed to claim a top-six finish. Given they’ve won six on the spin, it’s perhaps little surprise Coventry City are back to go up as champions, followed by Ipswich Town, who currently sit below the Tigers in the table.
Middlesbrough, Southampton, Leicester City and Bristol City are the four clubs back to secure places in the play-offs, while Sheffield Wednesday, Oxford United and Portsmouth are the ones going down, according to the data.
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