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Brighton vs Hull City is an English matchup whose cited meetings are defined by narrow margins, repeated draws and a slight Hull edge. Hull won 1–0 in the FA Cup on 9 January 2016, while Brighton returned the league score at home on 12 September 2015. Their 0–0 Championship draw at Hull on 16 February 2016 underlines the caution in the pairing. A new meeting would ask whether that balance travels across venues and competitions.
Match center
Starting eleven
Starting XI Hull City
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1G
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21D
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6D
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26D
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8M
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10M
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14M
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17M
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11M
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2D
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9F
Brighton Starting XI
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13
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D
2
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D
14
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D
5
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D
17
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M
36
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M
6
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M
7
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M
15
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F
10
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M
27
Substitutes Hull City
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20M
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19F
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27D
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7M
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12D
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16
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25F
Brighton Substitutes
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M
8
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F
9
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M
38
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G
1
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D
23
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F
25
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M
30
Match events
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61'I. Hayden T. Huddlestone
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71'A. Crofts B. Kayal
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71'S. Baldock T. Hemed
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72'C. Akpom R. Snodgrass
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82'Ahmed El Mohamady M. Diamé
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86'J. Skalák A. Knockaert
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87'Jake Livermore Yellow Card
Stats for this game
Matchup Brighton VS Hull City
Narrow margins shape the reference
Hull City hold the slightly stronger result line in the cited meetings, but neither side has regularly created a clear cushion. Hull won 1–0 at home in the FA Cup on 9 January 2016, while Brighton won 1–0 at home in the Championship on 12 September 2015. Brighton also drew 1–1 at home in the FA Cup on 17 February 2014 before Hull won the replay 2–1 seven days later. These scores show competitive tension, but they cannot establish a permanent hierarchy or explain every phase.
Draws leave room for a new shape
Goalless Championship draws at Hull on 22 February 2012 and 16 February 2016, together with a 0–0 at Brighton on 15 October 2011, reinforce the fixture’s low-margin character. The competition and venue have varied, which makes the historical evidence useful as context rather than a script. Brighton’s challenge in a new meeting would be to turn control into a winning margin; Hull’s would be to preserve the resistance that has made this pairing so difficult to separate. That contrast gives a future encounter its interest.