Match Report
The table gap was wide: 51 points between Burnley (2nd, 100 pts) and Hull City (21st, 49 pts). On the form table Hull City stood 16th over the last five rounds, despite being 21st overall. Per game in the league, Burnley were scoring 1.5 and conceding 0.35, Hull City 0.96 and 1.17, against a competition average of 1.23 goals per team per game.
15 matches unbeaten backed Burnley's arrival.
The head-to-head ledger counts 17 games: 11 Burnley wins, 2 for Hull City, 4 draws, at 2.24 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 35% of meetings won. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 29% of the meetings went over two goals.
Turf Moor in Burnley, capacity 21,944, hosted the game. Burnley led 2-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 2-0.
Goal scorers
Burnley: Bashir Humphreys (3'), Zian Flemming (21')