Middlesbrough vs Sheffield United

EFL Championship Matchweek 11 - Wednesday 23rd October 2024 - 20:00 - Riverside Stadium
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Referee: Andy Davies
Assistants: Graham Kane and Darren Williams
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[Rufus Smalls]

And I’m not being funny but O’Hare needs some bench time

He's nest and tidy, without actually creating anything.

Hope he bangs one in though !

 

[Tom Bott]

“Yes health inspector, it’s from a cow”

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ?

 

[Devils bump]

Are Souter and Ahmedodzic in a competition on who can complete the most passes.

 

[Jan Age]

He's nest and tidy, without actually creating anything.

Hope he bangs one in though !

I like him but no end product

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Hinchcliffe desperate for a boro win

 

[Jan Age]

I wish we would shoot

 

[Sheffsteel]

Wow.....so unlucky.

A carbon copy of Rak-Sakyi 2nd goal against Luton.
This time JRK skipped past their full back and places it past the goalie into the bottom corner.

Looked like we'd scored but right at the last second their defender Luke Ayling sprinted back and cleared it off the goal line.

Just now Boro had their best and only chance...... forcing Cooper to make a fantastic save.

 

[Half Bond Jls]

Cooper is super mega dope in the sticks.

 

[Jan Age]

If you don’t shoot you don’t score … simple… just shoot when we get chance

 

[Sheffsteel]

I wish we would shoot

Agree...it's been a bit of a pattern....where we're always looking to pass the ball to someone in a better position.
I can partially understand why we're doing it but any kind of shot gives you a chance.
All season we find ourselves regularly in great positions but the attack breaks down due to a poor final ball and we don't even have a shot.

0- 25 mins we've been really comfortable looking a bit like the home side. Boro playing like a game of chess happy to contain us.
25-30 mins Boro coming into much more and at last looking like the home side.

Last few minutes we've took more control of the game.....Boro just had their 5 minutes.

Game looks like it's drifting towards being 0-0 at half time...with both sides seemingly happy with that scoreline.

 

[jt64]

Wow.....so unlucky.

A carbon copy of Rak-Sakyi 2nd goal against Luton.
This time JRK skipped past their full back and places it past the goalie into the bottom corner.

Looked like we'd scored but right at the last second their defender Luke Ayling sprinted back and cleared it off the goal line.

And if he had sold the extremely blatant shirt pull, we get a pen and a Boro defender on a yellow, maybe red

 

[Il Coltello]

Getting overrun in midfield now. Look weak without Souza

 

[drblade]

We need a striker.

 

[CornwallBlade]

Ohare is simply too weak on the ball to play up front. Loses every 50:50 and gets nudged off too easily

 

[No Poirot No Party]

Don't overthink it Chris

 

[toledo]

Has Brewster touched the ball yet?

 

[Belvedere Blade]

 

[toledo]

And neither has Moore so we are lacking in going forward except through Ran Saki

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Moore, O'Hare and Brewster might as well not be on the pitch.

 

[Hillsboro Blade]

“He tried to sort his feet out”….ehhh????…,First thing I have to do when I get out of bed in a morning is sort my feet out. Left one ok, right one where it should be? Yeo, ready, lets go downstairs.

 

[KiwiBlabe]

Ohare is simply too weak on the ball to play up front. Loses every 50:50 and gets nudged off too easily

O Hare buzzes about, unfortunately he's not really good at anything. He doesn't press well (not intelligently), can't defend, as you say he is weak, not fast. The more I see the less I like unfortunately.
We would be better having an extra striker or an extra MF rather than a bit of a nothing man

 

[Jan Age]

Defence starts from the front

O’hare is too light weight and Moore too slow…

That slows them to step up and over run the two kids in midfield ….

We need to give them something to worry about in behind

I’d put Brewster central for O’hare and bring Brooks on…. We have no choice but to stick with Moore as Campbell isn’t match ready from what I’ve seen.

I’d bring burrows on the left to make it more solid

 

[Sharp_as_a_Blade]

Played well for 20 minutes then lost control of the game

 

[bonobo]

It's that same feeling with OHare/Brewster as with OHare/Hamer, if they just swapped positions. Surely we make better use of Brewster in the centre, particularly on the counter attacks and I thought OHare has his best games against Luton on the left.

 

[Harry's Game]

If Callum O’Hare was a car his acceleration would be nought to zero.

 

[Harry's Game]

Played well for 20 minutes then lost control of the game

They made a tactical change in midfield and we didn’t respond.. natch

 

[jt64]

Hamer for O'Hare, sit a bit deeper and strengthen the midfield

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Might as well get Shackleton on for OHare, let alone Hamer

Boro have taken over the game from 30 mins onwards and if this carries on we'll lose

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Hamer needs to come on, as does brooks.

 

[Northernsoulblade]

Souza big miss tonight don’t know what wilder is trying to achieve with Brewster 0-0 all to play for come on blades