dominant 3-1 win over Leicester<\/a>.<\/p>\nBefore the game at Stoke City and the home match against the Foxes, Wilder hung two shirts in the dressing room – a West Bromwich Albion and Wrexham shirt.<\/p>\n
The reason being that United lost and played poorly at both clubs recently. He was making a point to his players. Remember what happened in those two games and don’t let it happen again.<\/p>\n
“This is what happens when we’re off it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We were off it in the second half against West Brom and rolled over. I really didn’t enjoy that. I struggle to hide my feelings, especially when there’s 3,000 of our supporters watching.<\/p>\n
“At Wrexham the goals we conceded were just ridiculous.<\/p>\n
“That West Brom and that Wrexham shirt is going to go up, and I don’t want to see another shirt for a long, long time.”<\/p>\n
So there we go. That’s the challenge to Wilder’s players. Make sure they only need two hangers for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n
Based on the way they played against Leicester, they’ll have a shot. <\/p>\n
This was sheer domination, highlighted by the Blades recording an xG of 2.42 compared to Leicester’s 0.15. Every other key data point showed how strong United were on the night.<\/p>\n
There’s a long way to go and nobody will be getting carried away after two wins. A recent good run after the last international break was ended, after all, by that disappointing display at The Hawthorns.<\/p>\n
Yet there’s no point pretending that Sheffield United don’t have players capable of driving them up the Championship table, with a manager who’s been there and done it before.<\/p>\n
If they can have a good January transfer window, this could still be a very interesting season at Bramall Lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In modern football we spend a lot of time talking about data and tactics. We don’t spend so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-669681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115827364648305501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}