Coventry City v Hull City: Prediction, Tips and Odds

New arrivals Frank Lampard and Ruben Selles lock horns at the CBS Arena with both men finding their feet at their respective Championship clubs.

Lampard's three matches in charge of Coventry City have yielded a win, a draw and a loss, while Selles kicked off his Hull City reign on Wednesday with a decent 1-1 draw at home to Watford.

Coventry City v Hull City betting tips and predictions

Coventry City to win - 3/4

Hull's wait for a win and a clean sheet goes on and on and they could well struggle to get either at Coventry.

The Tigers are without a win in 12 Championship matches dating back to a 3-1 win at QPR on October 1st.

And they've not kept a clean sheet in their last 17 matches, previously shutting out an opponent in a 0-0 draw against Millwall on August 24th.

Those failures are why there is a new man in the technical area, with Selles the man in charge of a side propping up the table.

His first game in charge yielded a 1-1 home draw against Watford, a match in which the Tigers were tantalisingly close to that elusive clean sheet, Rocco Vata equalising in the 88th minute.

Had Hull held on for the win, though, it would have been a barely-deserved win.

City were poor in the first half, improved in the second, though fans are right behind Selles and there was a work ethic and physicality from the side which had been missing earlier in the season.

Their problem, one Selles is surely going to have to address in the January window, is the lack of scoring power.

They have netted 18 goals in 20 games - only Cardiff City have bagged fewer - and haven't scored more than one in a game since that win at QPR over two months ago.

Coventry are hardly full of goals themselves - they have 25 to their name - but Lampard does have a decent clutch of frontmen to pick from. They just need the service.

The Sky Blues have found the net in each of their last eight home games, the last two of which have produced 2-2 draws against Sheffield United and Cardiff.

The draw with the Bluebirds was Lampard's first game in charge and was followed by a solid 1-0 win at Millwall and Wednesday's fairly luckless 2-0 reverse at West Brom.

The former England skipper was full of praise for his front four, especially centre-forward Norman Bassette, even though they drew a blank at The Hawthorns.

And Lampard had Ellis Simms and Brandon Thomas-Asante on the bench, with top scorer Haji Wright close to a return after a month out.

He has the options Selles must be craving and that point of difference between the sides is why Coventry get the nod.

Victor Torp Over 0.5 Shots on Target - 11/10

A third tough game in a week means Lampard will make changes, as he has done before, with Victor Torp set to start.

He came off the bench at West Brom, having started the 1-0 win at Millwall last weekend and the Dane is that wildcard who Coventry look to for something special.

Torp only played half an hour against the Baggies, yet still managed three of the 17 shots which the visitors fired off, seven more than the home side.

Torp's two goals this season have come in the past six weeks and, as part of a team who will revel in the fact that Hull offer up chances, he looks a nice price at 11/10 to have over 0.5 shots on target.

Over 4.5 Hull corners - 5/6

There was an energy about Hull against Watford which didn't get the desired three points, but did hint at improvements to come under the admirable Selles.

Certainly, in the second half against the Hornets they put their foot down and were rewarded with a lead which they couldn't hang on to.

That pressure also yielded five second-half corners - they had six in total - and building on that, expect them to have at least five in 90 minutes at the CBS Arena.

The Tigers are averaging 5.7 corners per match this season and Lampard's City have conceded 17 corners in his three matches in charge.

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Coventry City v Hull City odds

Coventry City - 3/4
Draw - 13/5
Hull City - 15/4

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