Have you ever been on classic football shirts? If you haven't, I strongly recommend that you do because it's basically a football shirt collectors wet dream (ahem). There are hundreds upon hundreds of football shirts and memorabilia that you can buy for a pretty reasonable price. I myself managed to pick up a late 90's Blades away shirt on there and it's just a good place to while away a few hours looking at all the shirts they have. That wasn't paid for by classic football shirts at all (although if they are willing to give me some free shirts, I'd gladly accept the offer) but, you may be wondering what this website/shop has to do with Sheffield United defeating Burnley on Saturday. Well, during the summer, I bought two scarves from CFS (buying scarves in the summer? I know right?) one was a lovely Adidas Japan scarf from the 2006 World Cup and the other was a Palermo scarf. Up until recently, I haven't had a chance to wear the scarves but when we played Arsenal, I wore the Palermo scarf and lo and behold we won. So when I was on my way out of the house on early Saturday afternoon, I saw my scarf on the side and without thinking twice picked it up and put it on and again, we beat Burnley. Long story short, it's not actually United being absolutely fantastic and destroying Burnley to the point that I think that many of the fans behind the goal on Bramall Lane Lower Tier will get cold sweats whenever they see John Lundstram's face pop up somewhere. No. The reason we won is because I wore my scarf. Suffice to say, it's not coming off anytime soon. So now we know the scarf story, let's take a look at the match.
United came into this match on the back of a creditable draw away at Olympic Retail Park and were looking to increase our unbeaten run in the Prem to four games. Burnley on the other hand had taken a pretty unfortunate loss at home to a Chelsea team managed by a certain ex England player. Although the scoreline read 4-2 to The Blues, Burnley had plenty of opportunities in the game to score and if those chances had gone in it could have been a completely different game. Anyway, enough build up, United made one change from the week before with Lys Mousset coming back into the starting XI replacing Callum Robinson. The match started with The Blades bombing forward and quickly putting Burnley on the back foot. Mousset could have added a third goal in three games had he managed to get anything on a brilliant ball in from the right from Basham. Burnley didn't seem to have an answer to the high intensity Blades and United took the leads thanks to a sweeping move that saw Mousset divert a low cross into the path of an onrushing Lundstram with the Liverpudlian more or less recreating his goal against Palace earlier in the season in the process. 1-0 and it's the least United deserved. Burnley attempted a comeback but their direct style of play was by and large ineffective and apart from a shout for a penalty, created very little. Just as it looked like Burnley were getting into it, ya boy Lundstram struck again with a sliding effort almost unhooking the net at the BLE. Almost immediately from the kickoff it was 3-0 with John Fleck managing to slide home after a lovely ball from Mousset. Not long after that, the half time whistle blew and what a performance. Hopefully, the second half will be just as exciting? Although there were no goals in the second half, United still managed to create opportunities with David McGoldrick orchestrating the play like a bald Mozart. Although he doesn't score regularly and he has come under some heat this season due to his lack of efficiency in front of goal, McGoldrick is vital to the creativity of the team with his link up play making us look extremely dangerous. It's no wonder that when he was injured both ourselves and Ireland suffered in the attacking department. A brilliant side rule pass from Dave saw Billy Sharp in one on one with Pope and amazingly, Sharp missed! That has to be a collectors item. Would Burnley make us pay for missing chances? No. Not at all. They were about as useful in front as goal as Blind Pew and that's doing a disservice to Blind Pew. Lundstram almost scored a hat trick (the ABSOLOUTE SCENES if he would have) but apart from that, United saw out a game that was as comfortable a Premier League match as you would like. So it's 4 games unbeaten now for United and it's a third clean sheet in four games. Not only that but our win puts us 6th in the league, 6th! I know it's only early days but wow. What an achievement. To say we are proving all the doubters wrong is an understatement and the fact that we now go into games against both Tottenham and Man Utd being above both teams was unimaginable 4 years ago. It's been an incredible journey with Chris Wilder at the helm, long may it continue. As ever, UTB.
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