Sheffield United vs Birmingham City

EFL Championship Matchweek 22 - Saturday 20th December 2025 - 15:00 - Bramall Lane
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Assistants: Mat Wilkes and Simon Long
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[Bell4]

2-1 Blades

Campbell and Cannon

You’d better believe it

UTB

 

[Dkc]

Anything less than a win and we can probably forget about challenging for 6th.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Chong ex Birmingham.

 

[blade too long]

lest we forget

https://footystats.org/england/championship/form-table

 

[Harry's Game]

Huge game today need a win with the 3 tough looking fixtures to follow.

Birmingham do have a great record at the Lane though….

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

Play with Stoke intensity we win. We are good enough to win every game, the players need to understand that and produce. No more WBA, lesson learned, back to 3 goal minimum. 4-1 der Blades

 

[KMC-1889]

Praying for a Robinson disasterclass.

Think it will be a tight game, expecting a score draw.

 

[bakeblade]

Oh dear, back to 1 up front

 

[Nickydblade]

Finding room for Hamer and O’Hare?

 

[dexter101]

Oh dear, back to 1 up front

Im more concened we have cloned Cannon, he is starting and on the bench

 

[Nick Jansky]

Im more concened we have cloned Cannon, he is starting and on the bench

You sure about that?

 

[dexter101]

You sure about that?

instagram story was showing Cannon instead of Mccallum and Cannon also on the bench.

Good to know we arent dabbling in genetic modification quite yet...

 

[Uganda Blade]

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Finding room for Hamer and O’Hare?

Looks that way, doesn't it

 

[metalblade]

Oh God, back to one up top

 

[YES Blade]

A few iffy results and we’re back to the boring 4-2-3-1. Hopefully Wilder has found a way for it to be more entertaining than last season.

 

[PaulPeschBlade]

It doesn’t matter what the formation is it’s how we play it

Don’t press and have no intensity it don’t matter what formation we play


Good line up that

 

[Uganda Blade]

I can only assume he's decided to match Birmingham's five-man midfield, perhaps because he doesn't think Arblaster has the legs for 4-4-2?

 

[Cappy]

 

[SLB]

Oh God, back to one up top

0-2

 

[Wapping Blade]

instagram story was showing Cannon instead of Mccallum and Cannon also on the bench.

Good to know we arent dabbling in genetic modification quite yet...

Insta showing Cannon and no McCallum…

 

[SB_90]

Fantastic for us that robbo starts for them & i hope he as much of a liability at the lane for them. as he was for us

 

[VictoryBlade]

Oh dear, back to 1 up front

Yes things were going too well with two up front, sometimes I despair, ok we lost at WB but we should have been out of sight? So it could be pass sideways, back, sideways, rinse and repeat and bore everyone to death. You really cant make it up! Hope I'm wrong tbh but................................................

 

[Cappy]

Attacking warmup formation: Hamer LW, Chong RW, Cal 10, PB ST

 

[bonobo]

I am hoping this means CoH is pushed up alongside Bamford, although probably 4-2-3-1 as everyone else suggest. Whichever formation, I think 1-2 Brum.

 

[Champagneblade]

Interesting they have Robinson at left back and we have Seriki on the right.

I can’t think of a more I’ll suited player to handle Seriki one vs one than Robbo at left back.

Hopefully Seriki has a field day.

 

[pollster]

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Finding room for Hamer and O’Hare?

FMP
Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Wilder OUT NOW.
Tanganga the calamity clown at LCB in a 4 with wing backs
Not one fit genuine ie all round midfielder
One unfit has been slow 'striker' whose created more goals for the opposition than us with shoddy back passes aka 'hold up play'
And no doubt 'inverted wingers', borefest possession shite.
I know this division is shite but can they be as bad as required?

 

[espoo blade]

Come on Blades!

 

[Thrice]

CB getting booked in the 2nd minute of the game. Definitely need to target him now.

 

[espoo blade]

Get in!