Hull City and Middlesbrough lineups are listed for a promotion-related match. Hull City owner Acun Ilicali states that his legal team requires action if his side fails to win promotion. He says the goal is justice and that no one should enjoy football if justice is broken. He questions why an eliminated team was not reinstated earlier, why Wrexham was removed, and why Wrexham was not added back to continue the competition. He calls reinstatement after elimination an incredibly wrong decision, while urging focus on the game and saying decisions are discussable but the team must overcome difficulties.
"Our legal team says that we have to go for action, that's for sure so we have no doubt about it all we want is justice if justice is broken, nobody will enjoy football. If this action was so big that a team is out of the play-offs, why didn't they let them not play the semi-final, investigate and take Southampton out and put Wrexham in? Why is Wrexham out now? Put Wrexham in and continue the competition."
"For me, an eliminated team put back - also our lawyers say this and that's their opinion too - is an incredibly wrong decision. Now I can talk a little more because now the boys are in the stadium and they will not hear me I didn't want to make their focus disturbed. Decisions are discussable from what I understand from our lawyers, very discussable but of course we have to focus on the game and the boys are tough enough to overcome these difficulties."
"Hull City: Pandur, Coyle, Egan, Ajayi, Hughes, Giles, Slater, Crooks, Belloumi, Millar, McBurnie. Subs: Phillips, Lundstram, Hirakawa, Drameh, Hadziahmetovic, Gelhardt, Dowell, Koumas, McNair. Middlesbrough: Brynn, Brittain, Targett, Fry, McGree, Whittaker, Ayling, Strelec, Browne, Morris, Malanda. Subs: Wildsmith, Hackney, Gilbert, Silvera, Castledine, Edmundson, Hansen, Ibeh, Sarmiento."
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