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Carlos Corberan makes curious Hull City, Inter Milan and Juventus comparison

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West Brom head coach Carlos Corberan believes Hull City have similarities with Italian Serie A giants Inter Milan and Juventus after coming up against the Tigers on Sunday.

Corberan's Albion eased to a 2-1 success at the MKM Stadium after scoring twice in the opening 20 minutes through Karlan Grant and Josh Maja, before Joao Pedro pulled one back before the break, which ultimately proved to be nothing more than a consolation for the hosts, who are now seven without a win, while Albion won for the first time in nine attempts.

The Spaniard admits he was impressed with what he saw from Tim Walter's side and even took the surprising step of comparing them to last season's Serie A winners, Inter and Juventus, who finished third.

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"Hull is a very good team, in my opinion, with very good players even with the injuries they have had," the Spaniard told the Express & Star.

"They have players that for me can be in the highest position, like us and other teams in a lower position, because they have a very good squad and under the coach they have they do something totally different from other teams.

"They use the centre-backs as midfielders, they use full-backs as centre-backs, midfielders as wingers, these type of rotations make a more tactical challenge as well as the physical challenge, because we didn't have time to prepare.

"We worked yesterday (Saturday) with a video to prepare tactically for every single thing that they do because Hull is a team that makes behaviours that are not common in football. Inter Milan make something similar, Juventus with Thiago Motta do similar. But you don't face teams when centre-backs attack as midfielders. It makes it very difficult to prepare.

"With this context now - with the tactical and physical challenge, I can only value the effort and commitment of the players, which has been amazing, if not then you cannot achieve three points."