Hull City vs Nice — Tips & Analysis

Under 3: Neither of these teams score enough to worry us here. Nice score less than a goal a game and tied 7 of their last 16. That is a team who play safe and take what they can get. On the road they were 2W-4D-4L, so six of ten trips ended without a loss. Their games finished with 2 goals or fewer in 10 of their last 16. Hull are just as quiet. They lost once in seven at home last season, letting in less than a goal a game, and they score just over a goal a game. Two careful teams in a last warm-up is not a recipe for an open game. Add the friendly setting, where the tempo usually drops once the changes start, and a flat 1-1 looks the likeliest finish. That suits us comfortably. The risk is a loose 20 minutes. Nice beat Saint-Etienne 4-1 in this window, so they can put a game to bed when the mood takes them. A Ligue 1 side against a Championship side is also a real gap in quality, and gaps sometimes show up as goals. We still expect a quiet game with little to write home about.