Southampton vs Sheffield United

EFL Championship Matchweek 28 - Tuesday 21st January 2026 - 19:45 - St. Mary's
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Referee: Thomas Kirk
Assistants: Matthew Smith & Sam Lewis
Fourth Official: Andrew Humphries

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[Alex Cheeseright]

And we don't WONT to score!!! I'm being cynical,but are they trying to lose??

 

[drblade]

For all his faults, there is so much more threat with Hamer on the pitch.

 

[Cuypers]

Utter bobbar.
Total rebuild required.
Full respect to those travelling Blades.

 

[CornwallBlade]

Not his biggest fan but when he has to carry both Campbell and Campbells increasingly large arse it’s not that surprising.

Fair comment but it’s also his slowness and piss poor technique in front of goal that gets me

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Bamford had to score there … pathetic

Weak shot on his weak foot. Easy for the keeper.

Could have squared it to Hamer.

 

[Younger Dryas Blade]

The goal has to be survival at this point.

Then we can get Wilder fucked off for the third and final time and move on as a club at last.

This is a classic case of Stockholm syndrome. Wilder kicks off, the Prince lets him leave and then kisses and makes up with him. The new owners do the same, Wilder fell short of the target, the owners try something different and it didn't work, What do they do, run straight back to Wilder.
Wilder is not the problem. The owners past and present are, they can't seem to move on from him.

 

[toledo]

Bamford and Hamer should have started

 

[Darren William]

Fucking hell bambi

Get this season over with false promises

 

[Davalon]

Fucking hell bambi

Calm down ducky I was being facetious. Truly abysmal showing though nonetheless.

 

[Hockey'sBeard]

Southampton are piss poor but we are more pisser and poorer. Hats off to the fans who travelled

 

[BangorBlade]

Shite !!!!!

 

[Steve.C]

Wilder this one’s yours. Don’t call the players out for this shit show! You picked the team. Right side dreadful midfield dreadful. Can’t blame forwards. Wilder that was wank !!!!

 

[Jan Age]

Hamer this season is a fat overweight waste of a shirt

 

[Pintor75]

The Meistro beaten by a Selles lookalike, you couldn't make it up!

 

[SouthStandGBlock]

Rubbish

That one's on Wilder. Shocking team selection.

You ALWAYS start with your strongest team.

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Poor on the whole but better second half.

 

[CornwallBlade]

What an absolute disgrace. Well done travelling blades you don’t deserve that. If Wilder really is playing the mardy arse to put pressure on he can sod off again and good riddance

 

[Davalon]

No danger of all the away fans staying behind to clap them off tonight

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

Hamer this season is a fat overweight waste of a shirt

Smiling when he missed that header instead of putting it back across goal really got me annoyed.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Hamer this season is a fat overweight waste of a shirt

Guts Hamer.

 

[The Crab]

Kudos to those who travelled down. You deserved far far better.

I have no idea what the answer is.

We have had worse sides, but I’ve never seen one so riddled with apathy

 

[Blademan89]

Pathetic first half cost us, and that will be the end of our hopefull play off attempt.

We need to start looking onto next season and hopefully start recruitment and squad reshaping now for it and not for short term loans.

 

[Harry's Game]

We were stitched up on Saturday… but tonight was unacceptable.. no fight no effort…

 

[Chimpan-A]

Wilder this one’s yours. Don’t call the players out for this shit show! You picked the team. Right side dreadful midfield dreadful. Can’t blame forwards. Wilder that was wank !!!!

I’ve not criticised Wilder this season but you are spot on, this is all on him. Baffled why he started with Chong and Hoever when Brooks and Seriki are fit.
We’ve made yet another poor side look half decent.

 

[SB_90]

not excusing that poor performance weve had some shocking luck. that shaped that performance through injuries & suspensions

this was 2 poor teams & it shouldve been a boring 0-0 but for that freak goal

 

[coolasanidiot]

The truth is the second string are horrendous. I think most would happily never see Chong Ings McGuiness ever again. That last day recruitment was about as bad as it can get.

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

We played that like a pre season friendly

The players, and more disturbingly Wilder, appear to have given up

They'll probably put in a performance against Ipswich now, in front of a bigger crowd so that makes everything OK - as if no one knows what's happened tonight

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

Play like they don't care, can't sign anyone decent, couple of injuries and suspensions and were relegation standard. Promotion over. Good news though, were in a relegation scrap. Haven't had on of those for a while. Premier league was never relegation scraps!!

 

[Shawy24]

I’d be worried if I were us.

 

[Matlock Blade]

Wilder has thrown this game, gambling on a win against Ipswich. Terrible tactic. We could have got 3 points if we had started with our best players.