Hull v Sheffield Wednesday Betting Preview
It’s the big showdown in the quest to reach the Premier League. Burnley and Middlesbrough managed to reach the top flight this season through the automatic promotion spots and now with Brighton and Derby having fallen by the wayside in the playoffs, it’s down to Hull and Sheffield Wednesday to try and claim the last spot open for next season’s premier League. There is no game in English football which comes with a higher monetary price tag than this one, the rewards, quite simply of winning this match, are huge. Who will claim the victory at Wembley?
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Hull v Sheffield Wednesday Betting Tips
Nothing separated these two in the Championship meeting this season with two draws playing themselves out. Everything is on the line then on Saturday and Hull came through a dramatic semi final encounter with Derby. The Tigers produced a fantastic 3-0 win on the road in the first leg, but Derby came back hard at them at the KC Stadium, winning 2-0, leaving the Tigers to edge through 3-2 on aggregate. So that was a nail-biter for Hull who finished fourth in this season’s Championship. Boss Steve Bruce has said that they won’t have any excuses if they turn up and produce a poor performance at Wembley. One set back for them is that they could be without keeper Allan McGregor again as they were in the semi finals. A potentially big loss as he has posted 18 clean sheets for them this season.
Hull were last in the top flight last season after Bruce had guided them back to the top flight the previous season, through automatic promotion on the final day of the season. The Tigers have been to the Championship Play Offs before and have won it. They beat Bristol City in the 2008 Final to make it up to the top flight. Things have been really tight between these two in the last six meetings, with Hull taking a W2 D2 L2 record away from that sequence of games. Abel Hernandez is trading as outright favourite in the anytime goalscorer market for the game at a price of 7/5 and he is a price of 4/1 in the First Goalscorer market too. He has scored in two of Hull’s last three games played. There’s a tremendous amount sake here so the game going under 2.5 goals over the 90 minutes can be backed at a quote of 8/15.
Sheffield Wednesday were, by and large, comfortable in their semi final play off win over Brighton. The Owls took a commanding lead in the tie with a 2-0 home first leg win over the Seagulls and were on the back foot for most of the first half of the second leg, but settled down to put a 1-1 draw on the board and ease themselves through. Carlos Carvahal has taken the Owls to the brink of something big here, as Wednesday had only landed a top half of the table finish twice in the Championship after getting relegated from the Premier League in 2000. So they are a bit of a surprise package, but can they finish the job? It’s far to say that Wednesday’s success this season has been through their tremendous home form. Away from Hillsborough they had defensive problems and overall they won just seven of 24 games against top-half opposition in the league and they finished nine points behind the Tigers in the league standings. Hull’s record against top-half opposition over the course of the season was W11 D5 L6. An important stat in there for your Championship Play Off Final betting is that ten of those eleven wins that Hull posted were with a clean sheet and Hull to win to nil is a 13/5 poke for the game.
Hull v Sheffield Wednesday Betting Odds
Hull 5/4, Draw 21/10, Sheffield Wednesday 12/5
Hull v Sheffield Wednesday Predictions
There has been only the one extra time period needed in the last 13 Championship Play Off Finals, so this should get settled in 90 minutes. Of those twelve teams who won through in 90 minutes, nine of them triumphed to nil as well. Hull are the better of the two sides here, the only question mark is whether they turn up and play on the day because they are prone to shockers. But stick with the Tigers to pull out a clean sheet victory.
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