That's the longest title I think I've ever done (and probably ever will do) for a blog post on this website but I think it get's across the gist of what this article is going to be about. Yes, I didn't write my brief(ish) review directly after the matches again, partly due to busyness and partly due to us being crap in the four games since we last saw each other, We actually won a game which was nice, then we lost the other three and to top it all off, on the 12th of March 2021 after five years as manager of Sheffield United, Chris Wilder left the club. It's fair to say it's been a pretty turbulent past few days. Let's just get this over with, I just want to go back to watching videos from when we were good.
Game 1: Sheffield United 0, Liverpool 2, 28th February 2021 Thank god for Aaron Ramsdale in this game, he's come in for some stick this season but I'd say since the turn of the year at least he's probably been the stand out player in this woeful Sheffield United outfit and this game, especially the first half, showed that progression from a player that looked like his confidence had been shattered to a man genuinely keeping us in games. Rammers managed to pull off exceptional saves from the likes of Roberto Firmino and Trent Alexander-Arnold as we somehow got into half time of this game on a level pegging with the defending champions. The very best of a brilliant half for our young stopper was a fantastic reflex save to deny Firmino when the Brazilian raced towards goal with a goal looking like the only reasonable outcome, Rammers stuck out a hand and turned the ball away for a corner. It was brilliant goalkeeping and then the second half happened and goals from Curtis Jones and an own goal from Kean Bryan took away from a good performance from our keeper. Game 2: Sheffield United 1, Aston Villa 0, 3rd March 2021 Whilst we're deifying players in the opening of these summaries, another player who is worthy of praise from The Big G (TM pending) is David McGoldrick. So many times this season has the free transfer from Ipswich Town been the offensive highlight in a season were he's gone and bagged six goals in the Premier League, tripling his total for the whole of last season by March and in this game he possibly scored what will probably be our goal of the season. Making a turn infield about 40 yards from the Bramall Lane end goal, Dave picked out a stunner of a cross field pass to George Baldock who manged to cut inside the Villa defender and send a cross cum shot hurtling beyond the right hand post of the goal. Unbeknownst to Elmohamady, Dave had followed play from making his raking pass and managed to get on the end of George's cross/shot and diverted up and in to the net to give us a lead that we didn't relinquish even after Phil Jagielka was harshly sent off. Was our luck beginning to turn? Would we be able to build on this unlikely win? We've got Southampton next, they're struggling surely we can pounce and get more points? Game 3: Sheffield United 0, 2 Southampton, 6th March 2021 As you can see from the score line, we did not capitalise on Southampton's bad form and instead just threw the towel in completely. Rammers made some good saves to make it a more respectable score but a penalty from Ward-Prowse and an absolute thunder cracker of a shot from, who else, Che Adams condemned us to another defeat. It was just plain bad, I don't remember us having a shot on goal and not only that, we're not even sticking to the 'well, they only lose by the odd goal' that commentators like to dish out every time they watch us play like that's supposed to make things a bit better. At least they're not calling us the best team to finish bottom of the Premier League, we're just crap. Surely it can't get any worse could it? Game 4: Leicester City 5(!), 0 Sheffield United, 14th March 2021 Well it did. Wilder left then we got pasted by the crisp men. To be honest, this was the first time in a long time that I just didn't care about what we did in the game. It just hurt not to see Wilder on the side line. Knill and Prestridge were still there but I can only describe it as when you split up from a long term partner and then instead of taking their pets with them they just leave them with you. You love the things still but you know that they aren't fully yours and you probably know that the pets might feel a similar way. Anyway, 5-0 flattered us, Rammers was MOTM despite conceding 5 goals. At least Vardy didn't score against us for once. That's nice. And that's that, once again we're all caught up on The Blades slow and painful demise back into the second tier of English football. We're rubbish, we haven't got our talismanic manager anymore and did I mention how bad we are? Oh well, I'll see you on Monday maybe, or maybe not, depends if we get obliterated by Chelsea or not. If we do, I'll review some Daft Punk songs or something. I don't know. Anyway, until next time, UTB.
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