Hull City AFC and Aston Villa are playing live as the Tigers visit Villa Park on Saturday on the English Premier League schedule and the match starts at 8:30 am ET on the NBC Sports Network Live Extra website online and comes at the same time as the Spurs and Reds on the EPL fixture lineup.
Aston Villa comes in after a League Cup loss and both Ron Vlaar and Aly Cissokho on defense should be back after missing the game this week with injuries, but they should be ready to go. Michael Dawson is a new signing for Hull and he could come in and the team is mostly healthy for this match and that could be big as they are on the road and Villa Park can be a tough place to play. The teams ended up out of the cup with losses this week and now they are focusing on the Premier League.
Aston Villa may have Carlos Sanchez after his recent signing and he could come in as a sub later in the matchup. Hull City lost away on goals to Lokeren and that put them out and then Villa also lost and that was at home and they have not played well there of late. The team has won just 15 of the last 58 EPL matchups there and now they are looking to get that going against Hull City and the Tigers come in after finishing just one point back of the team last season, ending up in their best spot ever in the EPL.
Hull has not won at Villa Park in decades and now they are looking to get things right on Sunday, but that will be a very tough test for the team. The two teams played last May and that saw Hull score a goal against Villa for the first time in nine tries and while it was an own goal, it still is something and now the team is trying to get going and to do it, it would mean that some history is made. Villa is looking to stay undefeated for a little stretch and they have been unbeaten in their last three straight home matches from the EPL and they have also kept clean sheets in the last two matchups.
Villa comes in after a win over Stoke City and and a 0-0 draw against Newcastle, while the schedule gets very tough ahead, including with Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City. The team also has Tottenham coming up and they also have to play against Liverpool at Anfield and Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and that comes before games with Man City and Everton.
Chelsea comes in on top of the Premier League table with nine points along with Swansea City of all teams, while Tottenham has the chance to match and Man City is in with six points. Arsenal and Southampton are also up there with Hull City and they are looking to get a least a point from this and Man United is also down and looking to finally kick things into gear. Hull wants to stay where they are and they will need a solid game on Saturday and they are hoping for a better day after having to play man down for most of the match in the week.
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