“No disrespect to Sheff Utd.. but I LOVE IT when we play a weaker team and get to watch pure Bielsa ball”
“Played well, just not as clinical as we can be.”
“Completely outplayed Sheffield today, good win, some missed chance”
“We were fabulous. Just a bit of bad luck. Performance was fine, loads of chances, just needed better finishing. Sometimes results just don’t reflect that”
“Closer than it should of been. Really should have buried them earlier in that game but delighted with the win.”
“Won a scrappy game, always scrappy with relegation teams. Maybe we didn’t score as many as we should but another great win”
“Good to win but feel we could have got some much more from that. Too many players being greedy”
“Made far harder work of that than we should have. Very happy to have won, but I suspect Bielsa will not be happy with the overall performance. I know I’m not!”
“We were piss poor today. A competent team would’ve buried us”
“I thought we dropped down to their crap level but we won so lets forget about the game and move on to beating City next week!!”
“Good win, poor display. Our passing was below standard all game, but at least we looked reasonably solid at the back.”
“Felt like we had one eye on the beach and the other on next season.”
“struggled at times with sheff utd’s pressing and 4 attackers, but a brilliant ground out performance, something that is slowly being learnt by the squad.”
“blunts are all but relegated, Wilder has just been sacked, and they have arguably our worst manager ever in charge. Funny old game ain’t it”
“Ironically Heckingbottoms best Elland Road performance.”
“Why did the referee VAR desert us again today? Baldock should have seen red for two footed challenge on Roberts. Does he have to lame him or break a leg to get a red?”
“Got sick of hearing Sheff Utd players cry out every time they got tackled “
“Proper football is back….Oh wait a minute the blunts are on the pitch”
“SU are a poor football team with the worst manager in our history”
“Hecky is an appalling manager as his career shows. He is used to taking clubs backwards (Barnsley were in good form when he arrived and Lee Johnson left to go to Bristol City). Hibs were in decent form when Neil Lennon left to go to Celtic. And we hadnt had that bad a season when he arrived either. The man is a crap manager and all clubs suffered far worse form under him than they had before him. Sheffield United are bottom for a reason, Hecky got the job for a reason (they were desperate) . Fully expect to batter them, why should we expect any less? Wilder may be a grumpy, sour faced bloke but he did a great job there generally. Hecky isnt a quarter of the coach or manager Wilder is. If they dont win another game between now and the end of the season it wouldn’t be at all surprising.”
“He is statistically one of the worst managers in our history and the fact MB is still using players Hecky couldn’t get a tune out of says it all. Hate is to strong a word for football but ive never disliked a manager of ours more. Total fraud.”
“.I don’t doubt Heck is a s**t manager but you cannot judge him from his time here, he got a team with Klich banished to Holland, Saiz playing angry and suspended, a team so unfit it was dead by half time, attitude stank, and it seemed everyone had given up. He had no pre season, no chance to bring on his own players, no time to establish any youth and he probably knew he’d be gone in 3 months …I know I couldn’t work under those circumstances but he at least got us fitter and a touch more cohesive… That post Christmas LUFC was probably the lowest point for the club since relegation to Lg 1 …”
“Not a team I particularly like if I’m honest. It’s their fans I dislike, would love a decent win against them but with them struggling and Heckingbottom combination you just get that feeling, don’t you ?”
“Really dislike the Blunts, know a few fans and bragging rights come into it, must win game for me”
“Let’s have a bleedin’ massacre. Absolutely no better time for our sides to play each other and end up in our favour.”
“Would love if we thrashed them”
“I see us giving them a sound walloping also. Whether they come out to play or set up to defend we’ll get an awful lot of chances. And I see more than a few going in”
“they’ll park the bus playing Hecky hoof”
“Thank god Billy Sharp is injured. I don’t really rate him, but you know he’d probably score against us”
“Jack O’Connell, Jack Robinson and Jack Rodwell all out. Appears the blunts are completely jacked out.”
“Obviously, I’d like us to win this one but I actually don’t mind Sheffield United. I certainly prefer them to Sheffield Wednesday who have always reminded me of Newcastle a bit, with all their claims about their amazing history, being a ‘big club’ etc. Plus, there’s the Tony Currie connection. Always one of my favourite players, Tony Currie.”
“Weirdly I feel the opposite, but for the same reasons. I see too many similarities between ourselves and Newcastle and Wednesday to really hate them, but I can’t stand Blades, mainly because of Warnock and having encountered some objectionable fans while at university in Sheffield). Owls and Newcastle fans have been through as much as us, and have almost as prestigious a history as we do, so I feel more sympathy for them than anything else”
“Attempted to link up down the left, but was often let down by his teammates in delivering the incisive pass.”
“Enda Stevens was muck”
“Enda Stevens dropped an all-time stinker”
“Strugglkng to remember a worse performance in an Ireland shirt.”
“Never seen Stevens give the ball away so much”
“Stevens terrible but plays the 90.”
“Enda Stevens couldn’t hold onto his own balls tonight never mind a football. Shocking”
“what has happened Enda Stevens”
“ he lost the ball on a good few occasions. Like the rest of the Irish team, he looked off the pace and low on confidence. “
“Moved to the centre of a back three when McClean came onto the left wing and didn’t do much better.”
“Not overly impressed with either wing back but Stevens has actually been actively bad with his distribution and efforts to link the play. Which isn’t helpful. Kenny is on record about the importance of Egan to what he’s looking to achieve ”
Wales Fans Views On Rhys Norrington-Davies
“Really like Rhys Norrington-Davies”
“Norrington -Davies looks a competent player”
“Norrington Davies good”
“Natural successor to Davies, defensive fullback who can slot in a left centre back in a three”
“From what little I’ve seen, Norrington-Davies is a proper wing back, not a full back, so a different player to Davies.!”
“Played well LCB”
“So far in his handful of caps though has done really well. Bit of steel about him too”
“superb young defender.”
“RND didn’t give an inch.”
“stand out performances from Cabango, RND + Smith.”
“Decent performances from Cabango, RND and Matt Smith”
“Cabango, Rodon and RND ideal back three”
“Gunter, RND & Hennessey have all stuck their hands up tonight.”
“Did OK in a makeshift backline. Lost his runner at a corner in the second half when Mexico really should have levelled.”
“Done a alright job tonight and there’s no other decent player that can play cb”
“Stevens worked hard and helped us get up the pitch, offering width and calmness in possession”
“There was plenty of space down the left flank for Stevens to operate in and at times he presented danger to the Serbian defence, but probably not enough for the amount he had the ball in the final third.”
“Had a couple of nice overlaps and decent passes, better defensively than Doherty”
“though he didn’t put a foot wrong at the back, he may be disappointed not to have offered more going forward.”
” makes it look better on paper but this was a lot closer than a 2-0″
“We were abysmal that whole game against and abject and demoralised Sheffield side. Barely created a chance, substitutions made no sense at all, very lucky to get through that tie.”
“Rode our luck today and were lucky to get the win. “
“We really rode our luck in that 2nd half.”
“Sheffield played pretty well. You could tell we made 9 changes to the squad, there was a lot of miscommunication, especially early.”
“They did play very well second half. Deserved a goal really.”
“So stressful that”
“they certainly had chances to take us into extra time.”
“This wasn’t an easy game and you can’t compare this Sheffield with the one you see in premier league these days. This was the biggest game for them of the season. There is no hope in PL so they gave everything on the pitch today. Yes, Chelsea wasn’t great today, but there were a lot of changes also to reward some players. Job done. Great run defensively, lucky though to not conceed one today.”
“Sloppy lazy performance, Sheffield didn’t really have enough to hurt us Football without shots…thank god for Ollie Norwood taking the pressure off “
“We were lucky they are so bad”
“The commentator was absolutely gutted Sheffield didn’t score”
“Burke is swift” – surprising nod to 18th century Irish literature from a commentary team whose performance tended more towards ‘drooling moron’.”
“Keown is such an insufferable tat. Most of the other annoying ones I can at least zone out to, but his voice has such an annoying quality to it, and he chats such extreme levels of sht that it’s almost impossible to ignore. If you got cornered with the guy at a party you’d start drinking yourself into oblivion. “
“He’s an absolute tit. Near the end of the game he mentioned “big international friendlies” on the horizon for Mount, which got a tongue-in-cheek response of “San Marino”. Being the tiny-cocked man-child that is he, he gave a grave “well, they’re all big games when you’re fighting for you place in the squad”. No, mate — Jesse Lingard is in the squad for a reason, please do us all favour and stop making sounds.”
“Probably our best chance to win silverware and this is probably the last game that has any meaning for Sheffield so I say no risks.”
“They are woeful and have given up in the league, SO BEWARE, all eggs in the basket for this?”
“Sheffield got nothing to lose this season, they’re almost relegated so they will try to surprise in the cup.”
“the Blades are a right mess at the moment. Not just with where they are in the league. Despite all those losses, missing all 3 of their best centerbacks and signing a keeper who is not fit to strap up Hendersons gloves the only side to beat them by 3 clear goals was us. Then the very next game after Wilder leaves what happens? They look awful and lose by 5 at Leicester. Anything can happen in football but given how focused Tuchel has us at the mo he and whoever is picked will have to make a real pigs ear out of this for us not to go through. Bradford levels of bad.”
“Not disrespecting Sheffield United but is there a need to go with a back 3 here?”
“I think the Cup is genuinely the only real chance we have of winning anything, so if we’re now at the quarter-final stage, we might as well go for it. Any team we put out should be reasonably strong just based on our available personnel and Sheffield United are having a bit of a torrid time at the moment.”
“We can make a few changes and still dispatch Sheff utd.”
“Normally im nervous everytime we get on the pitch….This is no disrespect to sufc, who will give us a tough game, but i believe this match is in the bag”
“could also use this game for shooting practice “
“Sheffield United right now seem like the ideal opposition for Timo to get a goal or two if Tuchel doesn’t want to rest him.”
“the notion we need to pick our best XI (whatever that is) to beat the team bottom of the league is nonsense.”
“If Carlsberg presented your next opponent…(this might backfire)”
“It’ll be very surprising if this game isn’t won quite easily.”
“We will finish these off easily, they’re ****ed themselves defensively, Southampton could have walked off with 9 goals, I think we will proper hammer these. “
“A back 5 of Baldock, Ampadu, Bryan, Stephens, Bogle has to be one of the worst in premier league history surely? “
“Believe their only fit cbs are jagielka and ampadu who has had a poor season. Got to get at them.”
“They’ve been decimated by injuries and have very little cover. Kean Bryan wasn’t even getting in the reserve team at the start of the season, now he’s playing every game. Several defensive players are playing out of position. Bogle just coming back from injury but looks a threat at wingback.They’re very weak down the right side and have been exposed there consistently this season.”
“surely a draw is no good for both Sheffield Utd or West Brom when we play them. Normally I dread these relegation threatened sides parking the bus but you’d hope they’d both have to be a bit more adventurous against us and we will ultimately pick them off.”
“they could keep it tight and negative and frustrate us and try and expose us on a set piece. “
“Personally I’d go for Soy’s physicality against Sheffield Utd who have a Burnley type approach.”
“Time for Vardy to get his mojo back!”
“Vardy will score against them.”
“Vardy to relegate Sheffield United. Yes please”
“Apparently Wilder lost the players back when the lockdown came – there was an argument within the club about going on to a percentage of their wages and he made a public threat about the players using last season as a way of asking for new contracts.”
“Rhian Brewster hasn’t scored a goal for Sheff Utd yet so that can only mean one thing…”
“It’s just so tee’d up for a classic Leicester moment isn’t it. Playing bottom of the league, devoid of confidence, those around us playing each other… “
“We know they’ll work hard and we know they’ll press like mad. We’ve struggled with that a lot in recent weeks.”
“The idea that sheff u will be an easy fixture is misplaced these players are trying to impress ref a possible summer move and from a professional perspective, no one wants to finish bottom if they can avoid it.”
“Got the job done, wouldn’t go overboard about the performance though. They are absolutely awful so no barometer at all to measure premiere league quality. Massive 3 points though, gives us breathing space. “
“Comfortable win. The whole team worked their socks off. I was particularly impressed by the 2nf half performance. We never took our foot off the pedal.”
“A good win and never in danger of losing, bar the odd moment of a poor final ball or finish by the opposition”
“Could have been 4 or 5, but it is good to be creating chances again. Wilder’s subs helped us, made them worse each time”
“Should have been 3 or 4 with some better decision making in the final third, but a win and a clean sheet I think will be massive for the players, we aren’t on that sort of run anymore and we look more solid at the back.Yes the opposition were bad, but on the run we have been on that means very little.”
“Should have been 0-5. “
“Solid performance. Should really have been 5-0.”
“Sheff Utd were terrible”
“This Sheffield Utd team are one of the worst in PL history, blimey.”
“My word, SU are so, so bad…they make us look like Barca!”
“Sheffield United as poor as their position suggests.”
“we won’t play a team as bad as this again”
“If you are relying on Dave McGoldrick for your goals… well you can see why they are the lowest scoring team in all of Europe.”
“McBurnie is so bad…its laughable.”
“At least we didn’t spunk £25m on Brewster. Incredible the fees Liverpool get”
“Hard to read too much into it due to the absolute dreadful opposition. Worst PL team in a very, very long time. I think that Derby team had a little bit more about them? This lot are proper cloggers. They’ll struggle big style next year IMO. Long way back.”
“SU really are poor. Fleck should have walked as should the Neanderthal McBurnie.”
“One thing’s for certain the PL will be much better off without Sheffield U – Effing – nited who surely must be the dirtiest, least, skilful team ever to be there. It will be surprising if we don’t have four or five injuries to contend with after the dust has settled on this brawl of a match. Adams was lucky not to have had a broken leg after that horrendous late tackle on him, how was that not a red card? At least we stood our ground and refused to be intimidated by this bunch of Yobs.”
“Garth Crooks saying Fleck should’ve seen red for the tackle on Che.”
“Well, it doesn’t happen often, but just occasionally he is right.”
“John Fleck every bit as nasty a piece of work as his uncle.”
“Thought the ref was decent today even if you could argue that he should have sent a couple of their players off.”
“We may win, draw or probably lose this.If we get relegated in this game i’ll eat my head.Discuss. “
“You’d have to be mental to watch this as a neutral imo. Doubt I’m even going to watch it.”
“We’re the only PL teams playing at 3pm on Saturday. Those neutrals are going to have to watch us whether they like it or not!”
“A game against Sheffield United should produce a miniscule of hope, but I know it’s a trap, so am going back under my blanket.”
“If we beat Sheffield then I think we will limp to safety.Lose and I think we WILL be relegated.”
“Sheffield United have already won 3 home games in 2021 and are way ahead of us in form (last 10 games) , I’ve not checked the odds but would expect bookies to make them favourites.”
“I really can’t see Sheff Utd or WBA escaping, but we all know football, great escapes happen. This win will get them thinking they could beat us and be in with a slim chance. It’s certainly makes our game Saturday tougher”
“Sheffield United must be licking their lips at this game, a scrumptious 3 points on the table, sneak a spawny goal and pack the final 1/3 with all 10 outfield players watching us pat the ball back and forth”
“We have no chance of beating Sheff United. We have 2 players injured and we can’t possibly expect 3 points”
“Their confidence will be sky high”
“We are pathetic against teams that put their hearts into the match. We will be brushed aside and lose and will join Sheffield in the Championship, still blaming refs and VAR. Anything else is a bonus. We are experts at freak results.”
“We’ve scored 5 and conceded 23 in our last 9”
“Sheffield will score early then build the bus depot to get a narrow victory. They know how to throw bodies into tackles and win headers.”
“I expect us to lose to Sheffield too. We are simply dire at the moment. However, this time I am hopeful of being wrong and will follow the game… but maybe not watch it.”
“probably the two worst teams in the league at the moment, we have to win.”
“we simply have to eke out results with the least physical damage to the squad and Sheffield are not going to be playing tap football on Saturday! A point , no injuries no red cards would be just about ok for me, it’s a start. “
“I expect if we play Bednarek, and they stick Burke on left wing, he would cause us issues”
“Wilder likes his width to come from his wing backs. Hence why they have no wingers in their squad. I can’t see him changing it for us. And even if he did stick Burke out there, that’s fine be me. Sure, he’s quick. But he’s also useless.”
“It really shouldn’t matter who we play at RB for this one. Sheff Utd don’t know what a left winger/wide left midfielder is. “
“I just looked on the Fantasy Premier League app and didn’t realise how many centre backs Sheff Utd had out injured. Egan, O’Connell and Basham are out, now with Jagielka suspended, I only know of Ampadu who plays centre back for them. We shouldn’t really need their first choice players to be out, but it’s certainly a positive for us given our run of form.”
“McGoldrick has 6 Premier League goals this season apparently. That is mental”
” thought they were impressive against Villa, reminded me of the Sheff Utd of last season who seemed to grind out single goal victories, Ramsdale looking confident.”
“Ramsdale looks a decent keeper to me”
“Get the win here, stop the rot. Off the back side of Ramsdale I don’t care, just need to get the 3 points and start looking upwards again and towards focusing on the FA Cup.”
“What we really need on Saturday is to score early. Their heads will drop and we’ll start to relax and will probably win by 2 or 3.”
“Is this a direct quote from the Sheff Utd forum? “
“I can’t believe some people are suddenly scared of Sheffield United”
“Would Sheff U fans be offended if I called them a physical side? “
“We absolutely have to bin that high line when defending free kicks. Sheffield are quite a big side. Need to go man for man and drop a bit deeper. We can’t keep riding our luck on this and hoping VAR will bale us out with marginal offsides.”
“The only way we lose this is if we play very poorly. Which is possible, admittedly. But the performances by and large haven’t been terrible. Play like we did against Chelsea, Liverpool, Wolves in the Cup, Villa, first halves against Leeds and Wolves, we win. Unless Sheffield United have an absolute stormer. But that’s unlikely.”
“Sheffield United are not very good.”
“We will win, they are terrible.
“Still think we’ll win and if we score early it will be comfortable. They’ve got 14 points for a reason.”
“Smash the worst team in the league”
“We can’t play ourselves?”
“even though our form isn’t good… we are the better team.”
“That 2nd half against Villa would have drained them physically. “
“They won’t win 2 in a row. “
“Sheff Utd seem to be one of the few teams Che Adams actually scores against”
“Sheffield United were never gonna be an easy game. People who thought that are completely deluded. Still think our quality would shine through but you have to admire the heroic defending from Sheffield United. They clearly haven’t given up yet. “
“Well played Sheffield Utd.”
“Fair play to Sheffield Utd, they showed they wanted it more.”
“Sheffield Utd look like they’re fighting for their lives”.
“They deserved to get something from that!”
“Sheff Utd defended well to our blunt attacking play. Fair play to them.”
“Smith out thought by Wilder!”
” I think Chris Wilder wins the game – in the first half, tactically, he got his shape and his tactics completely right, we struggled to get out, struggled to do anything with the ball and were outnumbered all over the pitch, particularly in wide areas – he completely out-thought us. In the second half, his team gave an organised, disciplined defensive performance full of character. We were out-managed tonight and that’s to Wilder’s credit.”
“Credit to Sheffield too.class defending and dug in. Impressive. The clearings in the woods “
” Sheff Utd, well done to them I gotta say. Defended with bodies on the line.”
“We played last seasons Sheffield.”
“Fair play to Sheff U, that’s how you see out a 1-0 with ten men. I think the sending off did them a favour, we just started chucking it in the box and we were playing well in the second half up to then.”
“In some ways they did a Villa on us.”
“Credit to Sheffield . So well organised in defence especially after going down to 10. Ramsdale did well to deal with the crosses as well. Did absolutely well for what they need to do. Full on credit to them”
“Didn’t deserve to win that , professional footballers and they can’t beat the first man with a cross! Harsh red too so Sheffield United deserved the win!”
“They are probably owed that after last season, but what is with us against 10 men.”
“Fair play Sheffield United – they dug in and defended very well. Still think they are atrocious though.”
“its not as though sheff U played well. They were awful …and we could barely muster a shot on target against 10 men.”
“Can’t wait for Sheffield United to be relegated – got away with a penalty and should have ended the game with 9 men, all that talk of Sheffield ‘steel’ papers over a turgid team.”
“Those things arent Sheff U fault, it’s down to the officials. It’s like hating us and wanting us relegated because of the goal line technology issue. They will go down anyway”
“It’s clear to see why Sheffield United are going down”
“Shef Utd got promoted the same year as us and were far the better side by then. Now despite tonight they are almost certainly going to get relegated and we are almost certainly aren’t.”
“We’ve just lost to a team that I swear subbed on a 20 stone fan who must have won a competition.”
“We should have won that, poor finishing cost us a fairly comfortable win. Having said that, the approach to the game, and particularly the last half an hour was absolutely **** dreadful. We had no ideas other than twatting it in to the box from out wide. To not get a result against Sheffield United with a man advantage for half an hour is just **** inexcusable. Come the end of the season, it’ll be points dropped to the likes of this lot and Burnley that will have cost us what could have been a very good finish.”
“How the **** did we lose that? One of those games yet again. Restricted them to next to nothing and made more than enough chances to win it, infuriating.”
“We were crap but still created more than enough chances to win. Not good enough at all.”
“Frustrating that!! Should of won at a canter, had tons of chances but couldn’t put it away”
“We didn’t deserve to lose, but it was one of those games you feel you can play forever and not score. Missed some absolute sitters, too. Frustrated more than disappointed, really.”
“We are terrible against 10, especially as they were already ahead. Unlucky though as we had 4 very close chances, one a penalty shout. Frustrating but we are not terrible.”
“We were poor yet should have scored a hatful. Ref was terrible”
“Ramsdale had one save, from a shot that was straight at him. This was the worst performance of the season”
“Ramsdale (whose bang average) has had his easiest game of the season, laughing his tits off at one man team Villa.”
“What’s more embarrassing than losing to Sheffield United ? Losing to 10 man Sheffield United !”
“Embarrsement of a result that. Losing to one of the worst ever pl sides with a man down “
“Poor utter garbage can’t even beat 10 men against the worst team in the league.”
“Really hope Sheffield notches up another couple of wins because it would be embarrassing if Villa were among the teams who lost to the 2nd worst team in PL history”
“Quite an embarrassment, can we send Barkley back please!”
“Very sporting of us to bring on Barkley to make it 10 a side”.
“Can’t believe I was excited with Barkley signing, Terrible player”
“Smith needs to figure out how to play football without Grealish.”
“4 minutes added time and to blow up on 4 minutes is a **** joke. VAR must’ve taken 3 or 4 minutes on the red card alone plus 6 subs or so at 30 seconds a piece? Officials were abysmal tonight all round Inc. The red card. Useless.”
“Should have been a penalty, that ref was awful, but that’s nothing new.”
“Ref was awful, for both teams, don’t think he got a decision right all night. .”
“As cynical as the Jagielka foul was it’s still a yellow all day long.”
