Sheffield United

We asked for your thoughts after Tuesday's Championship match between Sheffield United and Bolton Wanderers.

Here are some of your comments:

Sheffield United fans

Stevie: Exciting in a weird way. Emotional, courageous, poor at times but football has come home again. Thanks Bolton fans and players for making it a spectacle - we had fun tonight.

Wottsamaddahu: Great result and attitude after injuries and losing a third star player to Moneybags Wrexham!

Bolton are a good side who've spent and signed some good players who'll bed in and trouble a lot of teams.

We've got no money but as long as Blades players are giving 100%, grit, determination and steel, naturally us Blades will be happy. That's four unbeaten! Last season lost first six under Selles.

Michael: Michael Cooper our player of the season to date. He has been absolutely top drawer in every match thus far.

Commiserations to Bolton fans on their way home, you fully deserved to win that match. Best of luck for the rest of the season.

Blades we needed that. Still work to do ignore the "noise" around us. UTB!

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Bolton Wanderers fans

Bolton Baz: Great away performance except for giving two easy goals away straight after taking the lead!

Second-half showing will worry a lot of teams in this division. Didn't deserve to lose after playing Sheffield Utd off the park second half. Gale, Sheehan and McAtee best three on the pitch. We'll play a lot worse and win games this season.

Martin: Overall, fairly happy with Bolton's performance, but they were ultimately punished for switching off at vital moments. Had some good chances in the second half, which bodes well for the season ahead.

David: Bolton were way the better side and looked the more established team in the Championship.

It's tough to take but Sheffield basically did a smash-and-grab even though they were playing at home. But we have to take the positives out of this. If we play like this for the rest of the season we will do well.

We have a group of players who are playing well together as a team and we will surprise a few teams this season.

Sheffield United manager did not lament the loss of playmaker Callum O'Hare to Wrexham on deadline day, instead praising his team which twice came from behind to beat Bolton.

"I've got a proper committed group of players, as you've seen tonight," the Blades boss told BBC Radio Sheffield. "You saw the reaction after the first goal, in the first minute - it couldn't have gone any worse for us, and we got straight back on it and equalised straight away.

"The reaction to the second goal, straight back on it, and then the desire to try to find the winner when it was a game of basketball and we were under the cosh.

"The reason [Michael Cooper] was the best goalkeeper in the division two years ago is because of what he has done today.

"I'm working with the players I've got, and we have some injuries at the top end of the pitch with Ryan [One] and [Tahith] Chong."

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Transfer deadline day is upon us and today is the final chance for your EFL club to finalise any business until January.

The transfer window closes at 23:00 BST, so we might have some late night scrambles to get deals over the line.

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Chris Wilder made it clear before the summer even began that there was a possibility players would leave Sheffield United in the transfer window.

The loss of parachute payments made it inevitable. Plus, an argument could be made that a little bit of a refresh wouldn't be a bad thing, to give a shot in the arm to United's hopes of once again competing for promotion.

However, if Callum O'Hare departs, it'll be too much.

There's a bid in from Wrexham. It sounds like a decent offer. Given the widely known off-the-pitch issues at Bramall Lane, it won't be a shock if it's accepted.

Losing O'Hare, Gus Hamer and last season's players' player of the year Andre Brooks would feel like a step too far. It would undermine a good couple of bits of business — seeing Hamza Choudhury and Ben Brereton Diaz return to the club. Any momentum they brought would be lost.

Three key creators would be gone. Who would be producing the opportunities for the forwards? It would place a ton of responsibility on Tahith Chong, currently nursing an injury, and young loanee Romelle Donovan.

We've still had nothing from the club's owners to explain the situation regarding the money allegedly owed to Prince Abdullah's United World.

Selling another player at the end of the window typically would warrant a comment, let alone the gaping void of communication relating to what feels like a fairly serious matter.

United would be left scrambling to find a replacement, probably on a loan or a free. That's the market they're in.

These aren't the actions of a club fully focused on a central goal of promotion. They're the actions of an ownership group struggling to provide a vision for what they actually want to achieve. So much so, you begin to wonder how much longer they even want to be here.

We've tried contacting the owners and had silence in return.

It's about time they explained what's going on.

Laura Kenyon
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The Cardiff game probably left Sheffield United fans slightly puzzled about what to expect in the coming weeks. Boss Chris Wilder himself admitted he was left scratching his head at such an open and breathless game.

However, some encouragement emerged in the form of a first Championship goal of the new season.

It comes after a measly combined total of just four shots on target from the opening two league games. Questions loomed about where the goals would come from this season.

Some answers were found at Cardiff City Stadium.

Tom Cannon's successful penalty was his second goal in two games, having netted in the EFL Cup in midweek. A goal from open play was even more encouraging, with Callum O'Hare looking like one of Sheffield United's bigger attacking threats.

Other answers remain elusive, though.

There was a cameo from Ben Brererton Diaz. The striker returned on loan for his third spell at the club in midweek, but will he be the prolific goalscorer of past Championship seasons?

Will Patrick Bamford step up to Wilder's call for more? He produced another quiet performance in Cardiff.

Blades fans will hope it does not take a third trip to south Wales to conjure up resolutions.

Sheffield United have had an offer accepted to take Southampton forward Ben Brereton Diaz on loan. The Blades face competition from Derby County and Stoke City who are also understood to have agreed a similar deal. (Sky Sports) , external

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Cardiff City are hoping to end a run of six successive defeats by Sheffield United when the sides meet on Saturday (15:00 BST).

The Blades are yet to score a league goal so far this season.

• Cardiff City have lost each of their past three home league games against Sheffield United, as many defeats as across their prior 12 matches on home soil combined between 1979 and 2017.

• Sheffield United have won each of their past six league games against Cardiff City since December 2021, it is the Blades' longest ongoing winning run against any current Championship outfit.

• Cardiff are unbeaten across their past eight league games against Yorkshire opposition (W6 D2), since a 3-1 home defeat to Bradford City in September last year.

• Both of Sheffield United's two league games this season finished with goalless draws, they have not played three successive 0-0 draws since April 1971.

• Sheffield United are winless across their past four league games against newly promoted opposition (D1 L3), last enduring a longer run between May 2015 and March 2016 (eight games).