“Boro have won their first three league games of the season! Sheffield United have lost their first three league games of the season! We’re live on Sky! What could possibly go wrong? Honestly, it would be typical Boro to lose this, wouldn’t it? Ruben Selles is under a massive amount of pressure and Sheffield Utd have to win at some point, hopefully it’s not at the expense of us. They were actually unlucky not to get a point against Millwall.
Boro have taken 6 points on the road but our opening day win at the Riverside against Swansea was far from convincing, let’s hope we don’t turn out to be an “away” team this season. “
“A good home crowd.
Slightly cloudy, luke-warm T-side atmosphere with a spot of rain.
Just the right atmosphere for another Boro victory.”
“The difference in optimism and excitement for this one compared to pre Swansea is night and day for me.
Sheffield United have been woeful so far. Should be a good atmosphere and a good attendance with a feel good factor well and truly back. What an opportunity to make it 4/4 wins to start the season.
Says a lot where a draw would probably be deemed a poor result. “
“Got to be winning these games against the division’s lowly dregs . I’m sure Shef Utd will come good at some point, but hopefully we can continue to pile the pressure on.”
“Selles has been trying to play with some sort of heavy metal 4-3-3 but doesn’t have the players for it. Sounds like he’s determined to make it work so I guess they’re going to try to press us hard from the off. So far we haven’t really nailed down how to mix and match playing through a press and going long, especially as we don’t really have an out ball when going long other than knocking it up a channel and hoping.
They probably aren’t as bad as 3 straight losses look and we’re probably not as good as 3 straight wins look but I think we’ll still come out on top.”
“Tricky game this. I don’t really rate their manager. I think Selles is a better number 2 than head manager. But SU also aren’t that bad a team so they are bound to pick up and turn it around at some point. Looks a bit like us under Carrick a few years ago when we had that awful start. Let’s at least hope we can add another defeat to their name before they start turning the season around.”
“Tough one this, classic boro situation, sheff united are in free fall, bottom and the confidence really low, their manager close to been sacked, so it would be a typical boro thing if we get beat 1-0 and harmer has a worldie against us AGAIN”
“Sheff Utd being bottom of the league just highlights how bonkers this league is, because no way are they a bottom of the league team.
They will still cause us problems and we will need to be at our best to get 3pts.”
“It would be the most Boro thing ever if we lost this match, but on recent form, we should win comfortably. However, the league isn’t accurate at this early stage (one might even suggest the table is being economical with the actualité), so I’m certainly not regarding United’s lowly position as an accurate representation of the club’s current fortunes.”
“Think this will be our first loss of the season, the blades will be raring to go. Looking at both squads we’re overachieving at 3 wins and they’re underachieving with 3 losses, this game will be a regression to the mean for both teams.”
“Danny Ings has just signed for Sheff Utd. Nailed on to score?
They’ll get one… from Ings… We’ll get a load more from various players.”
“I hope Danny Ings doesn’t show us what we could have had. I imagine Sheffield United will have paid him a good wage, especially after the first 4 games.
Regardless I’m pretty confident going into this one but they need a result, I think they could easily play for a draw. Won’t be an easy game at all.”
“He’s been crap for years. Tbh his historical scoring record is rubbish with only a couple of good seasons
He’ll score against us of course, but we’ll get 4 of our own so it won’t matter
And he’ll get injured after playing this weekend, and end the season with 23 appearances, 2 goals and 1 assist. Both goals against boro”
“Tanganga is bang average. No Dael Fry”