Hey, Sheffield United fan here. Thought I'd share some of my views on us, you and how I see the match turning out on Sunday.
Our Recent Run: There's no denying that 8 wins on the bounce is filling the squad with confidence, something we lacked earlier on in the season. The 2-0 win last night was with an obviously weakened squad with 5/6 people missing who are likely to play against you on Sunday and winning with that squad makes it seem like we're going to be very hard to beat at this moment in time. We've also been playing a good game whilst winning; we don't always play the prettiest football but the players in our squad such as scougall with his amazing burst of pace and Murphy & Flynn on the wings have been creating great links in the team and terrorizing defenses.
Our squad and key players:
John Brayford - Right back who we have on loan from Cardiff, been amazing and good at getting forward - Doubt for Sunday and would be a BIG miss if he's injured.
Stefan Scougall - He's got an unreal burst of pace, like a car that can go from 0-60 in under a second. He can easily beat several men at once just because of his pace (also got a decent finish, check out his goal VS MK Dons the other day)
Jamie Murphy/ Ryan Flynn - Our left mid and our right mid, more wingers if I'm honest. They've been outstanding recently and have been taking on any defender in their way; especially Murphy who is much better than flynn and taking on a man and he has nice pace when running with the ball. (Both scored against Aston Villa by cutting inside so you better watch out for that)
Chris Porter - "We're on the pitch if porter scores" was first sung against Fulham but he didn't score, when he scored 2 against forest in injury time we had to invade the pitch! Porter isn't a great player and since we signed him from Derby he's never really reached good form and his time at Derby was riddled with injurys however he's become a super sub scoring against Forest, Colchester and last night peterborough no earlier than the 87th minute. He's also calm on the penalty spot so your defenders better be careful with Murphy and Flynn cutting into the box!
I also must mention Mark Howard, he's only conceded 1 goal since replacing George long in Net against fulham. Conceding 1 in 8 with a strong back 4 will make us hard to break down.
How the game will go: If we score first then we'll defend like you have never seen before, against Peterborough last night we must have spent most of the 2nd half without leaving our own half and they had numerous corners yet they didn't have a shot on target. If you score first then we'll attack much more and in all honesty I see us having more chance of winning if you score first as if we get a goal we could get 3 !
Am I confident? No.
As good as we are at the moment, We're Sheffield United.
1993: Lost FA Cup Semi to Sheff Wedn**day
1997: lost play off final
2003: Lost play off final, FA Cup semi final AND League Cup Semi
2009: Another play off final....
2012: You were champions and we finished 3rd after f*cking up an almost certain promotion to the one and only sheff wed***day and then LOST A PLAY OFF FINAL!!
Basically throughout our history we've always bottled it however Clough seems like a manager for the big occasions so.. you never know - We might even see you in the Championship next season!
Best of luck for Sunday, may the team who wants it most win
and credit for selling out so quickly considering the 12pm kick off - thanks BT. (You would have had more tickets but South Yorks police have had issues with united fans in years gone by so segregation is always at the max. we don't help it though - some plonker threw a smoke bomb at the notts forest fans when we scored)
Forgot to add, I watched you against Sheffield wendy and you both looked awful. Is that how you always play?
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I am expecting a tight game with only one goal in it. I don't think your best chance will be for us to score first - it will probably be for you to score first in all honesty.
League one and the championship are miles apart so I'm not too worried about your recent form. The game is set up really nicely, I just hope we go for it. If we sit back we'll be in trouble.
Who will be in if Brayford's injured?
At least you seem to get to the semis + finals so it is probably next round that you stuff it up.
Fully expecting Blades 2-0 Addicks
Whoever plays on the right won't get much joy out of Wiggins. On the left you might get a bit more, as our RB is not really a
RBfootballer. Solly our POTY is out for the season.fixed for you VG.
So far , the player playing RB is getting my vote for player of the season!
If Brayford is injured we have no RB, it will have to be Davies again who is our spare right mid.
Alternatively as we did against Gillingham we could play 3 at the back with Flynn and our left back Harris as wing backs but think thats too risky against you.
That was one of our better performances!!
I learned recently that in sport the teams with the best defence are, statistically, the ones who win the most matches... go figure.
As others have said, reckon this will be a really close game. Looking forward to Sunday so much, see you in the stands, can see it going to replay tbh.
No, usually we're a lot worse.
Also my first visit to your ground, always seemed to fall at a time I couldn't make it whenever I've fancied going in the past..................
In fairness you'd have a completely different opinion of us had you seen the whole game. First 20-25 minutes there was only one team in it, Wednesday didn't have a kick and we could've been 2 or 3 up. But yeah i agree if you only watched the last hour you'd say we were both poor.
Thought that's the best we've looked all season
same!