{"id":825749,"date":"2026-03-14T17:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/825749\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:58:21","slug":"birmingham-and-sheffield-united-play-out-entertaining-draw-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/825749\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham and Sheffield United play out entertaining draw \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birmingham and Sheffield United played out an entertaining 1-1 draw at St Andrew\u2019s that did little for either sides\u2019 dwindling play-off ambitions.<\/p>\n

Wrexham\u2019s win over Swansea on Friday night left both teams needing to take three points to keep pace.<\/p>\n

However, despite a hatful of chances at either end \u2013 and the fact Chris Wilder\u2019s side played the vast majority of the game with 10 men after Femi Seriki was sent off \u2013 ultimately both lost more ground on the top six.<\/p>\n

An eventful first half ended level, with both teams creating numerous openings.<\/p>\n

\"Derry<\/a>\"Stephen<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Davies\u2019 Blues hit the woodwork twice in the opening nine minutes, first when Jay Stansfield dummied Tomoki Iwata\u2019s pass from the right and freed up Ibrahim Osman, whose eight-yard drive was deflected onto a post.<\/p>\n

Two minutes later Ethan Laird laid the ball off to Marvin Ducksch on the left-hand corner of the area and the forward smacked a curling effort off Adam Davies\u2019 crossbar.<\/p>\n

The Blades were reduced to 10 men after 23 minutes when Seriki brought Osman down just outside the box and was adjudged to have been the last defender.<\/p>\n

Ducksch took the resulting free-kick and lifted the ball over the wall and beyond Davies\u2019 dive for his 10th Championship goal.<\/p>\n

The visitors should have levelled in the 29th minute when Jack Robinson handled what he thought was a dead ball in his own area and gifted a penalty to his former club.<\/p>\n

Sydie Peck\u2019s spot-kick was far too close to goalkeeper James Beadle who saved.<\/p>\n

Patrick Bamford should have equalised three minutes before the break when Japhet Tanganga headed a free-kick into his path but his contact was straight at the Birmingham keeper.<\/p>\n

However, he made no mistake three minutes into stoppage time when he latched onto Harrison Burrows\u2019 pass over the top, took the ball around Beadle and rolled it into the net.<\/p>\n

The game remained open in the second half but chances were less plentiful, indeed it was not until the hour when Birmingham hit the goal-frame for a third time.<\/p>\n

Laird drew a foul out of Ki-Jana Hoever down the left, which Paik Seung-ho arrowed to the near post and Ducksch\u2019s flicked header rebounded off the crossbar.<\/p>\n

The former Germany international made it a hat-trick of woodwork strikes with 18 minutes to go after Carlos Vicente won a free-kick from Burrows. Up stepped Ducksch and his 25-yard curler struck the bar again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham and Sheffield United played out an entertaining 1-1 draw at St Andrew\u2019s that did little for either…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,237268,748,9030,393,4884,123861,10031,16,15],"class_list":["post-825749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-vs-sheff-utd","tag-britain","tag-championship","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-sheff-utd","tag-soccer","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116228830567934319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825749","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=825749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}