FT 1-0
Positives were it was a convincing, very comfortable win. The defence is consistently impressive meaning Cooper has almost nothing to do.
Think our best players were Hamer who shows moments of PL class, at times it’s a joke he’s playing in the Championship, also very impressed with Souttar, totally commands defence and the whole defence were really impressive again. You never felt nervous that Derby could equalise.
However in some ways Sereki deserves a mention in a man of the match award. He came on as right back but showed some brilliant wing play dribbling past his man and whipping in fast crosses, as a winger he was better than Brooks and JRS.
Negatives were we still don’t look right up top so we didn’t create many clear chances however think you have to give credit to Warnes Derby who were very negative but almost got a 0-0.
Our weakest players were either O’Hare, he works hard and gets stuck in but didnt impress like he can do. Thought Peck had a dodgy 1st half, mainly because he was stuck in the centre circle waiting for the ball where as Blaster is great at moving into space close to the defenders showing for the ball, so he links defence with midfield. Peck improved 2nd half but he can’t do the defensive midfielder role as well as Blaster.
Also Moore had a strange game, heavy involvement and did some good things but also did some poor things with misplaced fairly easy passes where an accurate pass would have probably lead to a goal.
Overall I’d give our performance 6 or 7 out of 10. We did what we needed to do. Thankfully it looks like we have a defence that are going to pick up loads of clean sheets.
Spot on, exactly as I saw it.
We need a lot more cutting edge up front.
Moore leads the line well, links it all together.. but he lacks ruthlessness in front of goal.
Rak-Sakyi lacked ambition.
Their LB was there to be attacked. Brooks & Seriki tore him apart when they came on. Yet JRS just wanted to check back and find Burrows. He slows our attacks down and only seems capable of coming inside onto his left foot.
Brooks needs to start next game but I'm by no means writing JRS off yet.
O'Hare - busy. But the end product is lacking.
He takes too many touches and seems to panic the closer to goal he gets.
He links well with Hamer but I hope there's a lot more to come from him.
Hamer stands out massively and we're becoming too reliant on him.
Too many of our players shy away from taking decisive action and pass that responsibility onto him. It's a fantastic goal from a FK.
If he doesn't score that, do we ever breakdown a poor Derby side?
Souza dominated the middle of the park and was much better in possession. A very solid performance from him.
Peck has set the standard so high with that Cup performance that I felt a little disappointed in his showing today. He looked a little bit lost in the first half and a few passes went astray.
He grew into it though and didn't look out of place by the end.
My man of the match was Harry Souttar.
His timing was impeccable. His use of the ball was outstanding. He won everything in the air.
It's the best centre half performance I've seen from a Sheff Utd player in a long, long time.
Shout outs to Burrows and Seriki. Also looked very good today.
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