Chris Wilder refuses to pull any punches after Sheffield United's run of defeats continues

United remained five points adrift at the foot of the table after Jamie Vardy, scored a 90th minute winner for Brendan Rodgers’ side at Bramall Lane, with Wilder accusing bemoaning his players’ “poor decision making” during the build-up to the England international’s strike.

Oli McBurnie, described as “outstanding” by the 53-year-old, had earlier scored his first of the campaign by heading home from a corner after Ayoze Perez had given the visitors the lead.

“I’ve have got the a**e ache with people saying all the time about it being fine lines and this and that,” Wilder said.

“We are a losing team at the moment and I am the manager of a losing team at the moment, whether that is cruel or deserved.

“If we make the right decisions, then we get something from the game and it would have been a really good point against a really good side who have gone well for a number of years with some really good players.

“But when you go so deep into the game, there has to be a mindset of if it can’t be a win then you have to take something. And obviously that wasn’t there.”

Wilder, whose squad is five points adrift at the foot of the table and six from safety ahead of Sunday’s game against Southampton, was referring to what he labelled a catalogue of “poor decisions” during the build-up to Vardy’s finish.

“We have nobody to blame but ourselves,” Wilder said, revealing he had decided against immediately addressing the situation in the dressing room afterwards.

“We had a throw deep in their half, the ball comes to Bash (Chris Basham) who doesn’t take the right decision. It gets broken up and comes to John Fleck, who doesn’t take the right decision. Then the inevitable happens.”

United return to action next weekend, when they travel to the south coast to face Southampton at St Mary’s.