{"id":746391,"date":"2026-02-06T14:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/746391\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:16:11","slug":"sheffield-united-suffer-fresh-injury-blow-ahead-of-middlesbrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/746391\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield United suffer fresh injury blow ahead of Middlesbrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chris Wilder confirmed that star striker Patrick Bamford will miss Sheffield United\u2019s upcoming match against Middlesbrough due to an ankle injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bamford has been key for Sheffield United since joining in November, scoring six goals in 13 Championship appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The Blades boss said: \u201cWe lost Pat\u2026he might be a couple or three weeks\u2026 which was a big blow to us because we can go a little bit more direct, which we\u2019d like to have done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilder also revealed that it\u2019s unlikely new arrival Kalvin Phillips will start for a while due to his lack of match fitness. He said: \u201cPhysically he is okay\u2026 training games and competitive games are different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Wilder said that having a player like Phillips in the squad is a huge bonus. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Rothwell could be ready to feature, following his move from Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Wilder confirmed that star striker Patrick Bamford will miss Sheffield United\u2019s upcoming match against Middlesbrough due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-746391","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\/116024114249051690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746391","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=746391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}