We’ll have to be at our best to get anything from this one.
Sheff Utd sit in second place in the table on 50 points with 4 straight wins behind them, the latest a 1-0 win over QPR, who had conceded just 4 goals and were undefeated in their previous 6 matches. Summer signing from Ipswich, 31 year old David McGoldrick, scored the winner with his 10th goal of the season.
The reverse fixture at Bramall Lane was our first back in the Championship last August, where we pulled off a shock 1-2 win.
Our team that day -
Nordfelt, Roberts, Van der Hoorn, Fernandez, Olsson, Celina, Fulton, Carroll, Asoro, McBurnie, McKay. Subs: Montero, Dhanda, Dyer, Grimes, Rodon, Amat, Mulder.
After this match two of that line up departed. Our captain, centre-half and Argentinian International Federico Fernandez, was gifted to Newcastle for a paltry £3mill, at 30% of his market value. Centre-half Jordon Amat was sold to Rayo Vallecano for an undisclosed fee, probably at a giveaway price.
The desperate fire sale by our hedge fund owners meant the departure of 16 of our Premier League players, including loanees, which decimated our club, and we were left with only one senior central defender, Van der Hoorn, and one centre forward from the under 23’s, McBurnie.