Chris Wilder is expected to revert to a familiar formation when his third spell as Sheffield United manager gets underway tomorrow afternoon. The Blades chief returned to Bramall Lane earlier this week after the sacking of Ruben Selles.
His homecoming clash is an attractive one at home to Charlton Athletic as the Blades look to get their torrid season so far up and running with a rare positive victory to give their supporters something to cheer about.
Gus Hamer and Tyrese Campbell could both return to the starting XI after starting last Friday’s 5-0 hammering at Ipswich Town on the bench while Wilder is not expected to spring any huge surprises in terms of his team’s shape against Nathan Jones’ side.
“No, I’m possibly going to pick the same formation that 29-30,000 Sheffield United fans would have picked,” Wilder admitted in his pre-match press conference. “So in there, there might be some positional changes slightly, and personnel changes as well.
“It's small steps. It's my first selection coming back and we're confident that we've got it right. But this is a strong squad as well and we’re going to have a really strong bench as well. So the 20 that gets selected is going to be a powerful group and there are some going to be some some good players not even in the 20 as well.
“I do feel at this particular stage that we're a little bit bloated, we're a little bit overstocked on players and we've got some good players coming back or on the way back. This is a really powerful squad and I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to get the most out of it. And that's what I intend to do.”
With that in mind we tasked our man to step into Wilder’s shoes and select the side he would send out to face Charlton - has he got it just about right or would you do anything differently?
9. Callum O' Hare
The former Coventry man played a lot of football for United last season under Wilder and could return to his favoured No.10 role if the Blades revert to the 4-2-3-1 shape that served them so well before Ruben Selles' arrival | Sportimage
10. Gustavo Hamer
It isn't a huge leap to say that Hamer will come back into the side after being inexplicably left on the bench by Selles in his last defiant act before the sword fell over the weekend. United's best player and, on his day, up there with the top ones in the entire league Photo: Getty Images : v
11. Tyrese Campbell
It was a tough night for Tom Cannon last time out although I don't blame him entirely for that as United continued their season-long struggle of not getting their strikers much consistent service at all. I'd expect Campbell to come back in, with Cannon an option off the bench, and come up against his namesake Tyreece Campbell of Charlton | Ed Sykes/Getty Images Photo: Ed Sykes/Getty Images