The rise of the rusty blades!
Things have become a bit of a mightmare around Bramall lane way of late, Players failing to perform, manager failing to perform, then something changed......
Here's a brief look at our recent run of games.
Wednesday 28th December 2005 : Sheff Utd v Stoke : Coca-Cola Championship : 2-0 win
A comfortable win here as we overcame a decent Stoke side, veteran Neil Shipperly opened the scoring in the 20th minute and Steven Kabba grabbed the second on 31mins. On a more sour note goalkeeper Paddy
Kenny went off injured just before the hour mark and will be out of action for at least two months
Monday 2nd January 2006 : Sheff Utd v Watford : Coca-Cola Championship : 1-0 loss
A new year and two new signings making their debut for Sheff Utd, 1.1million pound signing from Crystal Palace, clinton Morrision and 5k siging from Celtic Neil Lennon, sadly they couldn't inspire a win in any way shape or form as we continued in the same vein as we have been going for most of the season, we can't finish our chances!
A 4th minute goal from Marlon King was enough to defeat us when in reality we could have scored 6 or 7 with Clinton Morrison being the biggest culprit of missed chances.
Wednesday 4th January 2006 : Ipswich v Sheff Utd : Coca-Cola Championship : 7-0 loss
Right! quite obviously something went badly wrong in my pre match team talk as central defender Leigh Bromby thought he was playing in goal and more worryingly none of my keepers had anything to say about this!
Ipswich didn't take long to take advantage of this chaos! as Alan Lee fired them into a second minute lead and Ian Westlake followed up with the second in the 7th minute. Darren Currie grabbed the third in the tenth minute and this was followed up five minutes later by Westlakes second goal of the match.
After this somehow we managed to keep them at bay until half time!
This didn't last long though as Kevin Horlock fired in the 5th goal for Ipswich right after the restart.
Nicky Forster completed my misery in the final eight minutes with a late double (82mins and 90mins)
Playing a defender in goal, I'm and idiot
Saturday 7th Janauary 2006 : Newcastle v Sheff Utd : FA Cup Third Round : 3-1 loss
Up against Premiership opposition here and it was always going to be a big ask for us to advance to the next round and our chance was effectivley gone after only nine minutes of the match, Shola Ameobi opened the scoring in the 6th minute and Albert Luque killed us off a mere three minutes later, Scotty Parker added the third in the 66th minute and Steven Kabba grabbed a consolation goal for us in the 72nd minute.
One plus though, we did manage to injure Michael Owen \o/
Saturday 14th January 2006: Leicester v Sheff Utd : Coca-Cola Championship : 4-1 win
Things didn't start too brightly here for us as Elivs Hammond gave Leicester the lead in the 13th minute. Things went from bad to worse as Derek Geary was sent off for us in the 45th minute.
Our second half performance was a joy to behold though, Cesar Jimenez pulled us level with his first goal for the club in the 53rd minute, two minutes later Jonathan Forte shot us into the lead. The numbers were evened up in the 59th minute as Joey Gudjonsson was sent off for Leicester, cliton Morrison put the result beyond doubt with his first goal for the club in the 89th minute , Forte put the icing on
the cake with his second goal in the 90th minute.
Saturday 21st January 2006: Crewe v Sheff Utd : Coca-Cola Championship : 2-0 win
Got off to a great start here as Clinton Morrison fired us into an early lead in the 5th minute, I had hoped we would go on to dominate the match but it wasn't to be as Crewe pushed hard and created many chances themselves, and only some great goalkeeping by Phil Barnes kept our lead intact and right at the death of the match after some great play by Morrison, Steven Kabba was able to slot the ball home to secure all three points.
Tuesday 31st January 2006: Hull v Sheff Utd : Coca-Cola Championship : 3-0 win
We expected a tough game here and the scorline probably flattered us a little bit as Hull did have some great chances in the game only to denied by a man of the match performance from our keeper Phil Barnes.
Michael Tonge opened the scoring in the 38th minute, this was pivotal moment in the match as up until that point either team could have gained the upper hand, the rest of the match became affair until the 77th minute when Steven Kabba unleased a magnificent 30 yard volley into the top right hand corner of the Hull net, Clinton Morrison rounded off the match by converting a penalty kick in the 89th minute.
3 in a row \o/
Saturday 4th February 2006: Sheff Utd v Southampton: Coca-cola Championship: 3-2 loss
Up against one of the promotion favourites here in Andrew Hepburn's Southampton, before the game Hepburn was moaning about the fact his strikers were struggling to find the net, well they found the net here no problem
Djamel Belmadi opened the scoring for Southampton in the 14th minute and we were lucky to go in all sqaure at half time thanks to a Clinton Morrison goal right on the stroke of half time, which was our only shot on target in the first 45. Second half we played a better game and took the lead through Morrison again in the 63rd minute, our lead was short lived though as Steven "I'm a Kilmarnock reject" Naismith levelled in the 66th minute,
Kenwyne Jones wrapped up the points for Southampton in the 83rd minute.
A better performance but still 3 points dropped
Saturday 11th February 2006: Sheff Utd v Cardiff : Coca-Cola Championship : 4-0 win
Up against fellow under-achiveres here in Cardiff under the crazy guidance of that Anglo-American Rob Perry, Perry had put together a good run of form for his Cardiff side and was looking to extend it here. Clinton Morrison opened the scoring in the 10th minute and followed up 15mins later with the second, Steven Kabba made it 3-0 in the 35th minute. Steven Kabba completed the scoring fun in the 76th minute.
The only sour note of the match from our point of view was the Injury to Phil Barnes that will keep him out for two weeks.
Cardiff will feel more than hard done to as they had more shots on target than us, but still they'll be no bluebirds singing in Sheffield tonight \o/
Tuesday 14th February 2006: Q.P.R v Sheff Utd : Coca-cola Championship : 3-2 win
Not a very happy Valentines day for Q.P.R here are they were brushed aside in a manner that the scorline failed to reflect accruatley, Michael Tonge fired us into the lead in the 14th minute, Gareth Ainsworth levelled things up six minutes later but their relief lasted only two minutes as Garry Flitcroft put us back into the lead in the 22nd minute, Steven kabba extended the lead even futher on the hour mark, Marc
Nygaard pulled one back for Q.P.R in the 83rd minute but out defence just shut up shop after that and saw the game out \o/
So things are looking up here!
Not losing anywhere near the ammount of game we where earlier in the season, playoff hope still alive?
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