Sheffield United vs Bristol City

EFL Championship Matchweek 37 - Tuesday 11th March 2025 - 20:00 - Bramall Lane
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[Not so Slim ane]

Surely a penalty at the end, handball then Moore gets taken out, anywhere else on the pitch he's giving fouls

 

[Blacksea]

Laughable performance,we looked like relegation scrappers struggling for a point at home with some plan written on the back of a beer mat

 

[themaninblack]

Good effort, we should have had a clear penalty at the end. We are top of the division with plenty more twists and turns to come. Bring it on!

 

[gooseh]

Var gives us a pen at the end, not that we would have deserved it.

Also sends Robbo off I reckon

 

[toledo]

For the importance of the game , that was the worst performance of the season… what the heck were we thinking tonight ?

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

City deserved a point. Showed more intent to play football, more desire, more passion, more fkin everything that we did show until 2 piss poor ref decisions. Poor all round

 

[William Large]

Far from a bed wetter but that was overall an abysmal performance. Even so, we could have scored 4 in the first half but then basically after we scored, didn’t get any type of grip on the game.
That what happens when you play like we do, I agree that winning is the most important thing but we very rarely kill teams off or control games for more than 5-10 minutes.
For the most part it is enough but occasionally you will get results like this.

We should have gone out all out for the win tonight. Bristol for all their nice play, were weak at the back and there for the taking.

 

[Jan Age]

My prediction is we drop in to play offs and go out in the semis

 

[utd4ever]

Can't argue with the league position, but why are we always dull as dishwater?
You can't shithouse forever, it will catch up with you.
This Wilder is very different from the original version.

It seems when you have ex defenders as managers you get dull defensive shite.

 

[Bobby b]

Quite frankly that turned out a good point because I thought we were second best, we've been not good for a few games even though we've been getting the points, which I'm not complaining about, but the main thing is for me is Choudhary, we look a worse team when he plays, he's not a right back i know but today he played in his supposed best position in midfield, he was never there, he was like a centre half, leaving massive gaps where he was supposed to be

 

[Thrice]

Can't argue with the league position, but why are we always dull as dishwater?
You can't shithouse forever, it will catch up with you.
This Wilder is very different from the original version.

Always looks like he's more scared to lose than eager to win.

 

[toledo]

Wendy will be out to kill us on Sunday

 

[utd4ever]

My prediction is we drop in to play offs and go out in the semis

Be a massive shame with the players we have. The attacking talent is there but is it used properly, NO

 

[Rufus Smalls]

The Wilder Masterplan never works against decent teams. End of.

Wait till Sunday.

 

[RWE]

Sad isn’t it mate? It’s just negative horrible backwards … defend for your lives football … players can’t enjoy it either surely

100% agree. It baffles me when we have one of the strongest squads in a pretty weak championship and we play so negative. People call it bed wetting and “the league position doesn’t lie” but deep down they can’t be enjoying it much… and that’s what we pay money for at the end of the day.

 

[shrubbery]

Shocking subs yet again which cost us the win this time. BBD, Moore and Brewster offering absolutely nothing in attack and losing the ball every time it’s punted up to them. Backs against the wall defending for 20 mins and you could see the equaliser coming as they had plenty of promising moves before the one that they score from. Massive two points dropped tonight when we should have been pulling away from Burnley and Sunderland. Stonewall pen at the end on Moore but the ref had lost the plot by that point but would have just papered over the cracks.

 

[Sudley]

My prediction is we drop in to play offs and go out in the semis

Better that, than giving us another miserable day out at Wembley

 

[JayGreen17]

Fucking shote, if Hamer was fit play him, this preserve a 1-0 lead is complete cross and cowardly.

If we don’t go up by 2 points then blame Wilder, not the points deduction. Dog shit play.

 

[Steve.C]

These performances will be forgotten if we win promotion? If we don’t wilder will probably lose most of the fans.

 

[Dave9777]

Wow, WTF happened there Sunday league scrappers……. I had a bad feeling when Campbell went off for Moore, he really needs to get gone asap.

Adult nappy order going in to cover the remaining games I think

 

[Geordie Blade]

We came across as looking arrogant there. I don’t mind a bit of backs-against-the-wall blood and thunder when needed, but at 1-0 we just acted like we didn’t need to bother with any effort to win it. We got outbattled in that last 15.

Really really frustrating and no excuses.

 

[RWE]

These performances will be forgotten if we win promotion? If we don’t wilder will probably lose most of the fans.

I don’t agree, if anything I’d just shit the bed more thinking of playing like this for 90 mins against any Premier League side

 

[Kevincarterversion2.0]

We didn’t deserve the three points. Hamza and Peck playing centre back all game gave Bristol C the freedom to play. Thank god Hamer wants to pass and run forward as nobody else seems to. Other results have however, let us off. Just a missed opportunity to open a gap on Burnley.

 

[Thrice]

These performances will be forgotten if we win promotion? If we don’t wilder will probably lose most of the fans.

Thing is though, if we go up you can't play like this in the Premier League. You have to be brave. It's virtually impossible to defend a 1-0 lead for 30 minutes against premier League attackers.

 

[Blacksea]

These kind of games at this stage of the season a team stands up to be counted or cowers like mice, this team doesn't have the heart or guts,the skill or the game plan to get through 10 games and win out over 2 rivals.

 

[Champagneblade]

It’s another point accumulated and another game gone for Burnley that they haven’t caught us.

Nobody in the top six won. So it shows it is difficult to constantly keep the hammer down.

It gives Leeds a chance to retake the lead or not. Millwall are awkward opposition.

Can’t complain about them getting a point. It wasn’t as if we let them score at the death as there were almost ten minutes added anyway. We failed to create much in that second half really.

We seemed very flat in midfield for some reason and the wide players offered very little.

I think I might have preferred going to 5-3-2 at the end but then would that have been irresponsible? It would have meant Holding and Seriki, neither of which is fully match for for 90 minutes pushing themselves.

Seriki is our only fit right back, although you’d hope Shackleton could come into the reckoning soon.

I don’t blame the subs. I think we are managing fitness as much as form and a few have been calling for Moore over Cannon anyway.

Bristol City played well; they’re one of the form teams. Sometimes you do have to give the opposition credit. Unlike a few I’m not convinced on the penalty shout. I thought there wasn’t enough contact on Burrows and on the handball I also saw Moore handle before then and I also thought the hand was in a natural position.

It might be a handy point. It wasn’t pretty and we started the game without Arblaster, Souza and Hamer remember.

I think we have to be realistic. We’ve gone top of the league with 9 to go. On the pitch we have 79 points from 37, 2.13 PPG with a newly assembled team is excellent. At 77, it’s still a very good haul from 37 matches.

It’s another game chalked off as regardless of what Leeds do, we remain on the top two.

 

[UddersBlade]

Poor performance tonight against a good team and that 90th minute goal may be the real difference between us going up or not.

 

[Rufus Smalls]

We came across as looking arrogant there. I don’t mind a bit of backs-against-the-wall blood and thunder when needed, but at 1-0 we just acted like we didn’t need to bother with any effort to win it. We got outbattled in that last 15.

Really really frustrating and no excuses.

We didn’t get outbattled, we got outplayed.

 

[Blacksea]

It’s another point accumulated and another game gone for Burnley that they haven’t caught us.

Nobody in the top six won. So it shows it is difficult to constantly keep the hammer down.

It gives Leeds a chance to retake the lead or not. Millwall are awkward opposition.

Can’t complain about them getting a point. It wasn’t as if we let them score at the death as there were almost ten minutes added anyway. We failed to create much in that second half really.

We seemed very flat in midfield for some reason and the wide players offered very little.

I think I might have preferred going to 5-3-2 at the end but then would that have been irresponsible? It would have meant Holding and Seriki, neither of which is fully match for for 90 minutes pushing themselves.

Seriki is our only fit right back, although you’d hope Shackleton could come into the reckoning soon.

I don’t blame the subs. I think we are managing fitness as much as form and a few have been calling for Moore over Cannon anyway.

Bristol City played well; they’re one of the form teams. Sometimes you do have to give the opposition credit. Unlike a few I’m not convinced on the penalty shout. I thought there wasn’t enough contact on Burrows and on the handball I also saw Moore handle before then and I also thought the hand was in a natural position.

It might be a handy point. It wasn’t pretty and we started the game without Arblaster, Souza and Hamer remember.

I think we have to be realistic. We’ve gone top of the league with 9 to go. On the pitch we have 79 points from 37, 2.13 PPG with a newly assembled team is excellent.

It’s another game chalked off as regardless of what Leeds do, we remain on the top two.

Moore did handle,no penalty was the correct call

 

[BrisBlade]

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Shocking subs yet again which cost us the win this time. BBD, Moore and Brewster offering absolutely nothing in attack and losing the ball every time it’s punted up to them. Backs against the wall defending for 20 mins and you could see the equaliser coming as they had plenty of promising moves before the one that they score from. Massive two points dropped tonight when we should have been pulling away from Burnley and Sunderland. Stonewall pen at the end on Moore but the ref had lost the plot by that point but would have just papered over the cracks.

Is that the same Brewster that got a lovely assist? Thought he was fine when he came on. Oh, and BBD wasn't a sub. And the pen appeal was on Burrows not Moore. Apart from that, good write up.