Sheffield United (H) | Post-Match Thread

Got the early goal and basically contained energy for the rest of the game as they knew they were never going to cause much of a threat. They had a swingers punch with that shot late on but apart from that they looked like the Championship team they will be next season. A nice easy day at the office which is something I would dream of :)
 
Nah. This is the best City defence ever.
How old is Dias? Twenty fucking three! 4 years from his prime - 6 years younger than Van Djik!
a couple of years ago this would have ranged from 2-0 to 5-0 as a score, given our attacking prowess. These weren't the games Dias was bought for although he bailed us out a few times, he should have had an easier game but he did what he needed to do to cover for others.
 
Good mate of mine from my RAF days (Leeds fan) just reminded me that I had messaged me in December saying that I thought we were out of the running and I was going back to golf.. He asked me what I thought now..

I said I'm not counting any chickens but it would be superb to have an open topped bus parade before the Dippers
 
Got the early goal and basically contained energy for the rest of the game as they knew they were never going to cause much of a threat. They had a swingers punch with that shot late on but apart from that they looked like the Championship team they will be next season. A nice easy day at the office which is something I would dream of :)

Eventually though a swingers punch will connect. We need to be careful. Tough games coming up though so hopefully we have some fresh players for them. Burnley had a lot of rest for this game.
 
We got away with a lot of poor performances last season (mainly defence) and I think pep let them off the hook for the brilliant two years prior. Pretty certain he’ll be right on them now making sure our standards don’t drop. Fantastic chance to win the league yet again this season and they know it
 
The BBC make me laugh. I've just read the report of the game on the website and they suggest that apart from a long range shot from Jesus., Bernardo's flicked header, and a couple of goes late on, we haven't really done anything yet their stats show 10 attempts to their one, ten corners to their none, and then award the Sheff U goalie MotM! It's risible. I fancy it was written yesterday.
 
40 pages. Where are the other 100 n odd pages we get if we don't win?

I wonder if it's due to the red mardarse clubs being a bit shit at the minute and their giddy fans not being giddy.

Wankers.
 
This game was not our best, but another win, another clean sheet, 3 points. And United dropped two more points.

Guys. What’s not to like? :)
 
to be fair walker as lost his place to cancello because of injury or fitness ? he looked well off today
maybe needs a run of games or just needs a couple of happy balloons and he will be flying
think hes been playing in this style for quite some time. He's got one good forward pass and one overlap in him per game. He waves his arms for the ball then just passes back inside after hesitating the foreward pass. Worst though is the kamikaze tackling, always an accident waiting to happen.
 
think hes been playing in this style for quite some time. He's got one good forward pass and one overlap in him per game. He waves his arms for the ball then just passes back inside after hesitating the foreward pass. Worst though is the kamikaze tackling, always an accident waiting to happen.
Walker is doing his thing and there is nothing at all wrong with that.
However , the form of Stones and the emergence of Cancelo are becoming a personal issue for him.
 
Spot on.

The foul near the end was nothing short of brain dead.

Looked well off the pace, Cancelo has to be a shoe in now.

We looked comfortable against a physical Sunday pub team yet were always vulnerable to the long punt knock on sucker punch in the last 10.

Their keeper kept them in it to the death, but on another day we could have had two penalties, the push in the back on Gabby and the possibility of a soft hand ball against Baldock which I've seen given.

Other than Foden's bruised cheekbone think we escaped with nobody injured against the cloggers.

3 pts, clean sheet, won ugly, we move on.

Next.
Sadly brain dead is one of his main actions on a football park.
No matter how good he plays he always has plenty of these brain dead moments in a season.
 
Some games you just gotta grind it out.

Fair play to Sheffield United, after the goal conceded, they parked their bus but parked it well enough.
Late second half they didn't, could have equalised. I can see them getting out of the relegation dogfight because they have Sheffield steel bollocks the size of 22 snooker balls!
 
We scored, they didn't
Closest they came was an outside of the box effort that went wide
On another day we'd have scored three

We're in the middle of a ridiculously busy fixture schedule so not every game is going to be fast free flowing football. Some wins have to be ground out

We move onto the dentist appointment Wednesday evening and I'd certainly take another 1-0 win
 

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