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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Officials:

Referee: Michael Oliver
Assistants: Lee Betts, Dan Cook
Fourth Official: Andy Davies
VAR: John Brooks
Assistant VAR: Akil Howson

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[HarryHaslam]

Think we played a huge part in them getting stronger as we were giving the the ball away very cheaply. Cut out the errors and who knows.

 

[Gimli]

Have to take our chances.

Golden chance for Oli Mac after 3 mins. The margins are that fine.

Up the fucking Blades

Was offside anyway - not given by the Lino but would have been given offside by VAR

 

[Steve.C]

Why on earth did that check for the pen take so long in today's game that's as stone wall Hans ball you will see

Because it’s against Man U

 

[1987]

Because it’s against Man U

Said to our lass, other way round check would have taken 3 seconds

 

[bonobo]

Good performance. Winning the game in midfield for once. McBurnie regularly winning the ball and Robinson excellent again at the back.The usual concern about keeping the energy levels up, with few options on the bench 2nd half and the defense holding out when Man Utd inevitably step things up One thing I would think about changing, is switching Hamer and McAtee onto their stronger feet. They are not getting into shooting positions, so we are not getting the benefit off inverting them. On their stronger feet, we can speed up the counter, better exploit the slowness of Maguire and Evans and get better delivery, with two strikers in the box.

 

[stringjunior]

Yeh happy with that so far. Although I suspect Man U have another gear and I'm not sure we do. We'll see.....

 

[straight_outta_compton]

I could have screamed when Thomas got such an unnecessary booking for pulling the shirt of man utd player. Man utd player going nowhere and deep in his own half. Now Thomas is skating on thin ice for rest of match. Stupid, stupid, stupid! We don't need any more defenders out (through suspension)

 

[drblade]

Loving 4-4-2

 

[straight_outta_compton]

Mcburnie doing well with headers and aerial knock-downs. (Lack of) pace of Maguire & Evans needs to be better exploded in 2nd half. Especially if they tire. Archer has also looked decent with a few runs.

 

[Rochdaleblade]

Blades winning most of the second balls. Unfortunately, they seem to have realised that Rashford can beat Bogle for fun and keep feeding him the ball. We really miss furious George.

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Archer needs to run at their CBs, mcatee has looked good out wide

 

[Living In a Fantasy World]

Very good first half, if we play with this tempo and fight I can't have any complaints

 

[originaltrueblade]

Last ten minutes we stopped closing down needed half time to regroup

 

[stringjunior]

Loving 4-4-2

It definitely looks better

 

[Nagima]

Trusty and Robinson doing well. Hamer has got on a lot of ball and McAtee is getting on it too.
I think the formation is allowing us to play with more variety. Archer is able to come deep or work off of McBurnie.....its that final ball that has been poor but the attitude has been spot on.

 

[Dave9777]

I'd argue that this is the best he played for us this season. The chances he's fluffed, are also chances he's created.

Yeah I suppose effort levels are there at least. Still time…..

 

[drblade]

Fucking injuries.
Wtf

 

[Bobby b]

How is that not a foul on mcatee, any where else it would

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Clear push on McAtee by Harry.

 

[71Blade]

How does VAR not give a pen for that push from Maguire pen all day long bet that's given Robbo on one of them jeez

 

[drblade]

We are so weak on the ball sometimes

 

[originaltrueblade]

Stop the fucking mistakes

 

[HarryHaslam]

Who took that throw in? The fucking idiot, threw it to someone and put them straight in danger

 

[NateDogg]

Constant cheap mistakes. Played alright so far but no wonder we're bottom. Lucky man utd can't seem to finish.

 

[Espania blade]

Here we go on the hour mark and we are dropping deep again ffs

 

[BaldyBlade]

Missing McBurnie

 

[drblade]

Oil Mac makes such a difference

 

[HarryHaslam]

Constantly giving the ball away, even short easy passes we are just giving it them, not to mention stupid little fouls .. trying our best to throw this away being so sloppy, we have to wake up

 

[Freddy Dunning-Kruger]

Warnock touting himself for a job I see:

 

[Bobby b]

You've got to admit that's a good goal