Matchday Thread: Blades vs Rams

[macstheman]

Not vintage Championship football from 2 teams struggling for quality but we had Morris.!!
A first hat trick for a quality leader keeps our upturn rolling. 3 more welcome points makes the table look much less stressful. Onwards and upwards.

[MadAmster]

A result that flatters us, IMO. All the stats, apart from the most important one, were in their favour. We've nicked a win with 37.7% of possession, less shots, less shots on target, less expected this that and the other.... We put 3 away, they manged only one. That should be all that matters. One stat has me worried. Pass accuracy. 69.6%. 3 out of every 10 attempted passes gave the ball away. We can, and did, get away with that against a Blades side that played a lot of good football (more than us IMO) but are even less dangerous in the final third than us. IMO we wouldn't get away with that against a top 10 side.

Good header from a corner for the first. Great assist by one of theirs for the 2nd, a mere 19 seconds into the 2nd half. Morris was alive to the situation and in the right place to intercept, run on and score. I liked the way he took it as most strikers would have gone hard and low and seen the ball diverted by the keeper's right foot. Morris chipped. Something I've been advocating for years.

If we get 38% possession and have <70% pass success rate on Tuesday against Hull, we will, IMO, lose. Passing has been an issue all season. It needs sorting. The other thing we need to sort is our repeated inability to clear our lines at times.

Very happy at the result, less so with the performance. I hope that the Langas bloody shorts don't signify an absence...