Match Thread Sheffield United v. Manchester United - 21st October 2023

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Premier League Matchweek 9 - Saturday 21st October 2023 - 20:00 - Bramall Lane
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Referee: Michael Oliver
Assistants: Lee Betts, Dan Cook
Fourth Official: Andy Davies
VAR: John Brooks
Assistant VAR: Akil Howson

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[FatPaul]

Ben Osborne will save us.

 

[1987]

Unfortunately, it's been back to usual this second half. Soaking it up, soaking it up. Hoof up. Rinse repeat.

For some reason we've turned to hoofball more once McB went off.

 

[jono_t2000]

Backed Wes to the hilt but losing confidence in him sadly.

Just in last few games just felt he's been a bit flat footed and slow to react.

 

[silver blade]

70 mins

Post update​

Sheff Utd 1-1 Man Utd
Tiredness seems to be setting in for Sheffield United and Manchester United are looking the most likely to score at the moment as Anthony Martial holds the ball up inside the box with his back to goal but his pass for his team-mate is wayward.

 

[RWE]

Fuck sake, hard to put into words because of emotions but I feel as though we’ve played good 1st half and then shat ourselves 2nd. Supporting this team is so hard they are actually giving it a go tonight

 

[NateDogg]

Can't catch a break but we're missing mcburnie so much. Nobody holding ball up whatsoever. However anyone can slag him off is beyond me.

 

[Colombia Blade]

We've basically got no subs, so once the players get tired, that's it (even worse with the new extra time rules). We just can't compete with teams that can spend millions and millions on reserve players

 

[jono_t2000]

Can't catch a break but we're missing mcburnie so much. Nobody holding ball up whatsoever. However anyone can slag him off is beyond me.

This also.

Mcburnie holding onto the ball and his flick ons were so invaluable.

 

[RWE]

This also.

Mcburnie holding onto the ball and his flick ons were so invaluable.

McB is the glue to this team. Shame the subs are substandard

 

[Steve.C]

Fuck all in midfield. Macatee that’s all.

 

[Sveiks]

If it stays 1-2 until the 90th minute I would place a bet on less than 6 minutes additional time despite there being much more stoppages in the 2nd half. Just because the correct team is up 2-1

 

[Bobby b]

Norwoods dead balls have been absolutely bobbar tonight

 

[NateDogg]

Norwoods dead balls have been absolutely bobbar tonight

He's been shocking.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

5 mins, double that if it was other way round scorewise

 

[Sveiks]

If it stays 1-2 until the 90th minute I would place a bet on less than 6 minutes additional time despite there being much more stoppages in the 2nd half. Just because the correct team is up 2-1

Told you.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Btw trusty in for me every game

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Thomas is gash

 

[DSB-91]

Positives, we looked a lot better first half.

Negatives, we’ve had one shot on target from a pen. We can’t string three passes together. Man U’s finishing has been awful, if they took their chances it would be 4-1.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Maguire conatantly climbing on the back of our players, no foul

 

[crooked bladesman]

man utd could have had 10

 

[JJ Sefton]

Predictable, we were screwed as soon as McBurnie went off, but if we can play against shitter teams like we started tonight we might get summat somewhere.

No way we’re staying up.

 

[Rufus Smalls]

We struggle to put 3 passes together so any chance of holding onto possession is gone. Not the worst performance of the season though.

 

[NateDogg]

Positives, we looked a lot better first half.

Negatives, we’ve had one shot on target from a pen. We can’t string three passes together. Man U’s finishing has been awful, if they took their chances it would be 4-1.

Positives

Trusty and Robinson look decent.
Archer and Mcburnie did well together.
Next season will be better than this. Get Arblaster, marsh, osula, one etc in this team.

Negatives

Mcburnie is probably now injured.
We've lost again.
Bench looks weak as fuck.
Norwood is done at this level.
Far far too many poor, weak embarrassing mistakes and individual errors.

 

[WestYorksBlade]

Predictable, we were screwed as soon as McBurnie went off, but if we can play against shitter teams like we started tonight we might get summat somewhere.

we fucking won’t though, we’ll adjust our performances accordingly regardless of who we play to ultimately get sweet fuck all out of the game. The losing mentality in this team is poison

 

[jono_t2000]

First half we looked most creative we have all season (stats will show most shots in a first half surely)

Second half we tired and losing Mcburnie was crucial in our downturn.

However definitely something to work with going forward with this formation change.

 

[Athens Blade]

Osborn instead of slimane why?

 

[RWE]

For me, Egan out will help us and if we had a player instead of Norwood it’d help too. Great servants but not at this level. We gave it a go tonight can’t say much more than that.

 

[Swannyblade]

Respectable performance but no threat. Nothing down the wings at all. Nothing on the bench to change things. Injuries racking up even more as well. Still looks pretty bleak for dem Blades.

 

[DSB-91]

People crying about not enough extra time, only thing it stopped was Man U getting a third.

Prem refs are shit but they’re not the reason we’re losing. This side is totally out of its depth at this level. Put a stopwatch on how long we kept possession in the second half, doubt you’d hit double figures more than a few times.

 

[71Blade]

Can't catch a break but we're missing mcburnie so much. Nobody holding ball up whatsoever. However anyone can slag him off is beyond me.

I've never been his biggest fan but by Christ do we miss him when he isn't playing. Holds the ball up better than anyone else