The Blades are in action in a Yorkshire derby at Bramall Lane in the day's lunchtime kick-off.
Heckingbottom has handed in his teamsheet and makes just one change to the team that drew at Blackpool in midweek. His side are unbeaten in their last nine matches at Bramall Lane and have not lost since a 1-0 defeat to Blackpool in October. Today's game is also the last one before a much-needed two-week international break and Heckingbottom is urging his players to produce one last big effort to ensure they enter the period in good shape. He comes up against his former employers, who handed him his first senior job as manager when he replaced Lee Johnson in the Oakwell dugout and led his hometown club to promotion via the play-offs.
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Barnsley got lured into a lazy Saturday lunchtime in the South Yorkshire sunshine, and punished when Sheffield United finally flicked the switch.
Like the opener, then second assist also came from a former Barnsley player, Oli McBurnie picking out Morgan Gibbs-White to put the result beyond doubt. Gibbs-White headed at Collins from Oliver Norwood's free-kick, Daniel Jebbison was the substitute called for when Billy Sharp went off injured - always a worry for his team - but McBurnie came on six minutes later and even with the ball stuck under his feet, he played a good pass into Gibbs-White, who took the ball very wide of Collins but kept his feet and his composure to settle the game.
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"This is normal for this not to be our strength because we're a young team, but we need to improve on this. After the goal I was disappointed with our reaction, you are going to suffer but you have to be good at suffering. Of course we want to keep this run going and the clean sheets at home and being difficult to play against, but it takes a lot." It was a big moment in the game. I thought Barnsley stayed with us for the first 10 minutes, but after the goal we took control of the game. His shot from the right went wide.
Billy Sharp will have a scan on the hamstring injury he sustained during Sheffield United's win over Barnsley next week, Paul Heckingbottom has confirmed.
Speaking after our 2-0 defeat against Sheffield United on Saturday afternoon, Poya Asbaghi believes Barnsley were the better team until conceding the ...
“It was a pretty even game until they scored the first one – maybe we even had a bit more of an advantage, I would say. They had more counter-attacks than we were able to create chances, which is the most disappointing point. “For all the teams in the Championship, the international break is a time for two things; to recover and to go through collective things for the team, which is going to be important for the last part of the season,” continued Asbaghi.
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Their inclusion back with the 23s could indicate United have one or two bodies back for the bench at least. Interestingly, Joe Starbuck didn’t play, and he is a player who is on Heckingbottom’s radar and has been involved already. Jack Lester said in the press conference that he didn’t expect much in the way of returnees, but the latest under-23s selection might have hinted at otherwise.
Two second half Sheffield United strikes sunk the Reds at Bramall Lane in Sky Bet Championship action this lunchtime.
Against the run of play the home side then took the lead. It was Wolfe who had the next best chance in the game, after the Reds won back possession on halfway. Carlton Morris drove into the box down the left-hand side and after some good trickery won a corner.