First leg of Championship play off semifinal, with the winner advances to a 120 million Wembley final.]
We have today the same situation as yesterday while all the press suggest there will be a cautious draw in the first tie, with the winner to be decided in the second leg. Absolutely no reason to do this as there is no away goal rule and teams will play attacking football.
Yesterday even Brighton attacked over first minutes and had hit a post before home team took over and away players mysteriously collapsed on the pitch.
Both teams more or less deserved where they are but Hull have certainly had bigger ambition - direct promotion - before woeful run towards the end of the season and they were out of steam over majority of spring. They could not beat relegated MK Dons at home, lost to Bolton away, it really looks something is not working at the club, with fans unhappy over the owner and his business ideas and players look like stopped to believe this team with these players and managers will go forward. They do not give an extra push and players rather than promotion think where they can be signed in the Premiership individually.
As for Derby - they had big ambition and played the most fantastic football in the league under Paul Clement but they were like Everton - brilliant performances, most shots, most posts, woodworks, and...most draws. They were outplaying their opponents, still they were quite far from the top due to many draws.
Things did not look good to them, with a prospect of another missed play off chance they replaced Paul Clement with Darren Wassall - their coaching staff member but what is important Harry Redknapp took advisory role and is helping Wassall throughout the play offs so you should have no worry about his lack of experience.
Last results are quite meaningless but Derby stopped drawing their games, now they win or lose but even if we disregard their last two games - both won by Derby very clearly - it looks like Hull have lost their belief - same case like Brighton they expected direct promotion and play off situation is not familiar territory for them. Derby is much more experienced in Championship play offs - they play and sometimes even win promotion. They get relegated next season but still they do not drop much and play another play offs in the matter of time.
Hull has better quality players but they lost their confidence in recent months. I will take the home team again
First leg of Championship play off semifinal, with the winner advances to a 120 million Wembley final.]
We have today the same situation as yesterday while all the press suggest there will be a cautious draw in the first tie, with the winner to be decided in the second leg. Absolutely no reason to do this as there is no away goal rule and teams will play attacking football.
Yesterday even Brighton attacked over first minutes and had hit a post before home team took over and away players mysteriously collapsed on the pitch.
Both teams more or less deserved where they are but Hull have certainly had bigger ambition - direct promotion - before woeful run towards the end of the season and they were out of steam over majority of spring. They could not beat relegated MK Dons at home, lost to Bolton away, it really looks something is not working at the club, with fans unhappy over the owner and his business ideas and players look like stopped to believe this team with these players and managers will go forward. They do not give an extra push and players rather than promotion think where they can be signed in the Premiership individually.
As for Derby - they had big ambition and played the most fantastic football in the league under Paul Clement but they were like Everton - brilliant performances, most shots, most posts, woodworks, and...most draws. They were outplaying their opponents, still they were quite far from the top due to many draws.
Things did not look good to them, with a prospect of another missed play off chance they replaced Paul Clement with Darren Wassall - their coaching staff member but what is important Harry Redknapp took advisory role and is helping Wassall throughout the play offs so you should have no worry about his lack of experience.
Last results are quite meaningless but Derby stopped drawing their games, now they win or lose but even if we disregard their last two games - both won by Derby very clearly - it looks like Hull have lost their belief - same case like Brighton they expected direct promotion and play off situation is not familiar territory for them. Derby is much more experienced in Championship play offs - they play and sometimes even win promotion. They get relegated next season but still they do not drop much and play another play offs in the matter of time.
Hull has better quality players but they lost their confidence in recent months. I will take the home team again
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