National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Hull City or Fleetwood Town that keep their silverware dream alive.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only three days ago in the League One. That game was an away game at Sunderland, so at least Hull are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Hull City form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the EFL Trophy for Hull, as the manager G. McCann led his troops to eliminate Harrogate Town, Grimsby Town, Leicester U21 and Crewe Alexandra, and reach the 3rd Round.18 points is a decent return from 9 League One games here at KCOM Stadium for Hull City. The data says 6 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses. On the other hand, in the EFL Trophy, Hull City has performed like this (both home and away): 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
Hull travelled for their previous game, a trip to Sunderland that ended 1-1. Previous to that game, a League One home match hosting Charlton Athletic in a game that was won 2-0.
The Hull fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 9 matches. Hull are not conceding a lot of goals here at KCOM Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 9 matches.
Fleetwood Town form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Blackpool, Aston Villa U21, Sunderland and Carlisle United in order to reach 3rd Round of EFL Trophy. Fleetwood Town's mission in EFL Trophy last season failed in the 3rd round.The visitors are W3-D2-L5 on the road this term. That's in the League One. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the EFL Trophy stats, they have 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away. Fleetwood Town have had a generous will to share for some time now, running a streak of three draws in a row. Fleetwood has drawn their two previous away games.
Fleetwood are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Crewe Alexandra. A draw for Fleetwood before that, at their own venue hosting Wigan Athletic (1-1).
A new game in only four days for Fleetwood, the League One home match versus Portsmouth. Busy days.
Fleetwood Town have scored 12 goals on their travels this season, from 10 away games in the league. 11 goals have been conceded by Fleetwood in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only -1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last two meetings between these two teams are: one win for Hull, zero draws and one win for Fleetwood Town. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: one game.Top Goalscorers
  C. Camps 8 goals |   M. Wilks 7 goals |  J. Magennis 6 goals |
Hull City missing players
Fleetwood Town missing players
| Hull City | Fleetwood Town | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 8 | Won | W | 3 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 39 | 15 | Scored | S | 12 | 37 | ||
| 25 | 6 | Conceded | C | 13 | 26 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 58% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 64% | ||
| 44% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 40% | ||
| 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 24% | ||
| 44% | 17% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 48% | ||
| 48% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 32% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 12.6 | 13.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.2 | 9.9 | ||
| 4.8 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.4 | ||
| 33% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 40% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lincoln City | 21 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 14 | 42 |
| 2 | Hull City | 19 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 12 | 13 | 37 |
| 3 | Portsmouth | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 32 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 17 | 35 |
| 4 | Doncaster Rovers | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 33 |
| 5 | Peterborough United | 19 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 30 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 33 |
| 6 | Accrington Stanley | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 33 |
| 7 | Charlton Athletic | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 32 |
| 8 | Ipswich Town | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 32 |
| 9 | Crewe Alexandra | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 25 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 30 |
| 10 | Fleetwood Town | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 29 |
| 11 | Sunderland | 18 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 9 | 29 |
| 12 | Oxford United | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 30 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 3 | 28 |
| 13 | Blackpool | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 20 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 13 | -3 | 27 |
| 14 | Gillingham | 20 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 26 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 13 | -3 | 26 |
| 15 | Plymouth Argyle | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 37 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -9 | 26 |
| 16 | Milton Keynes Dons | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 26 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 25 |
| 17 | Shrewsbury Town | 20 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -4 | 24 |
| 18 | Bristol Rovers | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -7 | 22 |
| 19 | Northampton Town | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 36 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 19 | -17 | 22 |
| 20 | AFC Wimbledon | 20 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 25 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -8 | 21 |
| 21 | Rochdale | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 30 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 15 | -7 | 19 |
| 22 | Wigan Athletic | 20 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 16 | -14 | 19 |
| 23 | Swindon Town | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 25 | 41 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 23 | -16 | 17 |
| 24 | Burton Albion | 22 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 28 | 50 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 27 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 23 | -22 | 13 |