INTRODUCTION
Before this season began, the Imps had an extremely good record against the Tigers but that went up in smoke earlier in the season. Hull secured their first victory over City since 1996 and became the first side in nearly 2 years to stick 3 past the Imps in a regular season league game.
THE IMPS
The Imps will be without a few key players for this game. Butcher is still injured although looks set to return for Tuesday's trip to Macclesfield. Simon Yeo is also serving a 1 match suspension for picking up 5 yellow cards and one red card this season. Scott Willis is also gone again as he has been loaned to Conference team, Hereford United. Other than that, it's going to be pretty much the same team that controversially lost to Huddersfield last week.
HULL
Earlier this season, it looked as though Hull would walk the division but they can't seem to shake off the chasing pack and keep swapping the lead with either Oxford or Doncaster. However, they are still extremely dangerous dispite losing at home to Torquay last week.
Jason Price, Danny Alsopp and Damien Delaney are all expected not to play due to injuries and that will be a major boost for the Imps hopes.
LAST TIME
The Imps travelled to the KC in late October and could have been 3 or 4 up at half time, we were comfortable, or so we though. Andy Holt scored just before half time. The Imps seemed to lack intensity after that and goals from Alsopp and Green sealed a comfortable 3-0 victory for Peter Taylor's men.
LAST 5 LEAGUE MEETINGS BETWEEN THE CLUBS
HULL 3 IMPS 0
HULL 0 IMPS 1
IMPS 1 HULL 1
HULL 1 IMPS 1
IMPS 2 HULL 1
PREDICTIONS
I am not at all confident about this game for numerous reasons. The players will want to make up so badly for last week that we'll probably end up going out all guns blazing but fail to score, then eventually conceed and by then we'll be nackered.
Prediction - Imps 1 Hull 2
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