Blades v Rotherham - Match Highlights

[Bladesman]

Lucky lucky lucky....

https://www.skysports.com/efl/championship/video/11562103/rotherham-2-2-sheffield-united

 

[Minty]

Great goal by Duff though....overall a very lucky point.

 

[Bladesman]

Wilders Inteview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06srgp1

 

[Bladesman]

 

[oldblade]

Lucky lucky lucky....

https://www.skysports.com/efl/championship/video/11562103/rotherham-2-2-sheffield-united

On balance of play and chances, yes. But I would say there was quite a lot of luck involved for both of their goals.

 

[Grey Blade]

I walked out of the stadium thinking we had been very lucky to get a draw. Having seen the highlights I didn't realise how fortunate Rotherham were with their goals, and how McGoldrick didn't manage to score. At the time I thought he had hit the post.

However, I still think we were lucky to get a point!

I think it's time to play Coutts with Fleck and let Norwood have a rest - not because Norwood made a few mistakes today, but because previously Fleck seemed to play better alongside Coutts.

 

[SwissBlade]

I walked out of the stadium thinking we had been very lucky to get a draw. Having seen the highlights I didn't realise how fortunate Rotherham were with their goals, and how McGoldrick didn't manage to score. At the time I thought he had hit the post.

However, I still think we were lucky to get a point!

I think it's time to play Coutts with Fleck and let Norwood have a rest - not because Norwood made a few mistakes today, but because previously Fleck seemed to play better alongside Coutts.

Fleck has also been brilliant alongside Norwood, but I’d like to see Coutts and Baldock start down at Brentford they might suit the away games a bit better

 

[Bladesman]

Fleck has also been brilliant alongside Norwood, but I’d like to see Coutts and Baldock start down at Brentford they might suit the away games a bit better

One could argue Coutts should play when Freeman plays as they have a better understanding with each other. That said Freeman is so out of form now that I agree with you.

 

[Bladesman]

 

[Fulwood Blade]

Gosh - if anyone had just come back from planet Zog, they would think we'd just been relegated with some of the comments on here.

We scored 2 very good goals and conceded 2 very fortunate goals.

The mere fact that Rotherham huffed and puffed and had 20+ shots is not telling the whole truth.

They lacked quality all over the place and efforts actually on goal were quite poor, and although as a team they deserved what they got through effort and effectivemess - we contributed to our own downfall with the help we gave them in both goals.

Yes, well done to hendo - some good saves that you would expect most keepers to save - they were all straight at him - even so, MOM easily.

The turning point YET AGAIN was our inability to close a game out in the first half. No blame to McGoldrick as it was superb anticipation from the defender, but score that, it's game over.

Rotherham did well, and for me will stay up - they'll have difficulty scoring goals - not every team will gift them like we did.

Just a poor day at the office. We are causing our own issues at present, but they are all issue that can be resolved on the training ground.

Brentford next and then the still misfiring Leeds who were quite fortunate yesterday by all accounts.

We'll be fine - we're actually not far off and our luck will even itself out.

UTB

 

[Houston_Blade]

Gosh - if anyone had just come back from planet Zog, they would think we'd just been relegated with some of the comments on here.

We scored 2 very good goals and conceded 2 very fortunate goals.

The mere fact that Rotherham huffed and puffed and had 20+ shots is not telling the whole truth.

They lacked quality all over the place and efforts actually on goal were quite poor, and although as a team they deserved what they got through effort and effectivemess - we contributed to our own downfall with the help we gave them in both goals.

Yes, well done to hendo - some good saves that you would expect most keepers to save - they were all straight at him - even so, MOM easily.

The turning point YET AGAIN was our inability to close a game out in the first half. No blame to McGoldrick as it was superb anticipation from the defender, but score that, it's game over.

Rotherham did well, and for me will stay up - they'll have difficulty scoring goals - not every team will gift them like we did.

Just a poor day at the office. We are causing our own issues at present, but they are all issue that can be resolved on the training ground.

Brentford next and then the still misfiring Leeds who were quite fortunate yesterday by all accounts.

We'll be fine - we're actually not far off and our luck will even itself out.

UTB

Blade tinted specs a bit there. You’re right, some are overreacting in general but to say we deserved anything from the game and should have closed it out is inaccurate. We never had hold of the game to close it out.

We have had a few performances recently that have been far short of what we did early in the season and I think if we’re not careful these will become the norm. The form needs to take a turn for the better and we need to get back to doing the basics right. If Wilder can’t sort it then we’re fucked as no one else will.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

It’s fine margins, but for my money Rotherham were the better team and deserved at least a point if not all three.

Well done to them! Their fans deserve to feel proud of that performance. We are a very good team but we didn’t play like it and they should take credit for that.

As for us...a chance to get back to winning ways on Tuesday against a team who are also out of form. A chance also for Wilder to try a few different players I think. All good. We move on.

 

[wizadry]

On balance of play and chances, yes. But I would say there was quite a lot of luck involved for both of their goals.

I didn’t think luck played much part in it to be honest, I thought it was a mixture of really poor defending (Basham especially), that coupled with some poor finishing and some good saves from Hendo with a few good goalline clearances chucked in for good measure.

 

[oldblade]

I didn’t think luck played much part in it to be honest, I thought it was a mixture of really poor defending (Basham especially), that coupled with some poor finishing and some good saves from Hendo with a few good goalline clearances chucked in for good measure.

Depends how you see luck.

I would say that the shot that hit Basham could have gone anywhere. Luckily for them it went into the corner of our goal. Probably 9 times out of 10 the same shot rebounds back out of the area or balloons over the bar.

For their second there were a catalogue of incidents that all fell their way, culminating in the last intervention that steered the ball straight to Proctor. 9 times out of 10 it does not go to the Rotherham player and gets cleared.

I am not saying that Rotherham were not good value for their point. They were and we couldn't really have complained had they won. But their goals had far more good fortune about them than ours did.

Henderson made some very good saves, but we had the clearest chance of the match when the score was 1-0. If that goes in we probably win quite comfortably.

We were under the cosh for a lot of the game but Rotherham certainly had a fair amount of luck.

 

[wizadry]

Depends how you see luck.

I would say that the shot that hit Basham could have gone anywhere. Luckily for them it went into the corner of our goal. Probably 9 times out of 10 the same shot rebounds back out of the area or balloons over the bar.

For their second there were a catalogue of incidents that all fell their way, culminating in the last intervention that steered the ball straight to Proctor. 9 times out of 10 it does not go to the Rotherham player and gets cleared.

I am not saying that Rotherham were not good value for their point. They were and we couldn't really have complained had they won. But their goals had far more good fortune about them than ours did.

Henderson made some very good saves, but we had the clearest chance of the match when the score was 1-0. If that goes in we probably win quite comfortably.

We were under the cosh for a lot of the game but Rotherham certainly had a fair amount of luck.

Fair enough but the shot didn’t just hit Basham, Bash chose to turn his back on it and if he doesn’t do that the shot doesn’t go towards goal, in other words Basham neshed it and I’m sure Wilder will have had a word with him regards it. For me, that’s why it wasn’t anything to do with luck and was just bad defending. Uncharacteristic from Basham who on the whole has had a very good season so far.

Basham should’ve given Norwood a shout for the second which would’ve prevented that goal aswell, for me, luck didn’t play a part in that goal either, just rank bad defending.

I thought our second had a bit more fortune about it but you have to show the desire to get in that position in the first place so Bash deserved it.

McGoldrick did miss the best chance of the game which was a sitter and a really terrible bit of finishing, Billy would’ve buried it.

I actually disagree with Wilder and thought a draw was a fair result no matter how poorly we played although I wouldn’t have grumbled had they gone on and won it, we were really poor on the ball, it was so unlike us.

 

[Bladesman]

Full interview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06srrpg

 

[Bladesthorpe]

Fair enough but the shot didn’t just hit Basham, Bash chose to turn his back on it and if he doesn’t do that the shot doesn’t go towards goal, in other words Basham neshed it and I’m sure Wilder will have had a word with him regards it. For me, that’s why it wasn’t anything to do with luck and was just bad defending. Uncharacteristic from Basham who on the whole has had a very good season so far.

Basham should’ve given Norwood a shout for the second which would’ve prevented that goal aswell, for me, luck didn’t play a part in that goal either, just rank bad defending.

I thought our second had a bit more fortune about it but you have to show the desire to get in that position in the first place so Bash deserved it.

McGoldrick did miss the best chance of the game which was a sitter and a really terrible bit of finishing, Billy would’ve buried it.

I actually disagree with Wilder and thought a draw was a fair result no matter how poorly we played although I wouldn’t have grumbled had they gone on and won it, we were really poor on the ball, it was so unlike us.

Rubbish, Basham has never neshed owt since the day he signed.

 

[wizadry]

Rubbish, Basham has never neshed owt since the day he signed.

Watch it back, Bt, if you get chance. The ball simply doesn’t go towards goal had he stood up right instead of turning sideways on at the point of contact.

 

[Mendi]

2 points dropped