Huddersfield Town 0 Sheffield United 0: Paul Heckingbottom's reaction as Blades draw with fellow promotion-chasers

It’s not good. We knew it’d be a significant tear so it’ll be followed up with other appointments now.

He’s earned his start, he worked extremely hard for six or seven weeks. He had covid and an illness but since the new year he’s worked extremely hard and forced his way in. it’s not been easy for him but he earned it and I told him that. We all know what he can be and what a problem he can be for the opposition. I’m pleased he got minutes and efforts on goal and as always he put a shift in as well.

He can naturally come off. It depends who he’s playing with. Oli’s more than comfortable doing that, he’s a good footballer but we all want him in the 18-yard box, scoring goals. Pleased he got some efforts on goal but would have been better if he got the winner.

You’ve got to earn everything. That’s what we say to the players, you’ve got to be a good team to beat us and that’s what Huddersfield will have been saying. Our big challenge was when we’re attacking and their first pass out, and pace on the counter. That made it hard for us, and we had to put a shift in to get back and kill their danger. It was end to end in that respect but the way we defended, and they defended, meant it was low on clear-cut chances.

There were moments in the second half when the crowd was up at chances and a big tackle, I love those moments and I think the players are starting to. I fancy us in those moments.

“I saw the team maybe perform better than the result and that was very positive. "In the first half if I divide into three blocks of 15 minutes we dominate the first and the last. "We tried to adapt our behaviours in defence and be more attacking in our pitch. "In the second half there were moments for both teams but the team was trying to create chances and have the ball more in the offensive half than we did in previous games. We couldn’t find  a way. "We had three ways - set pieces and we did but we had a goal disallowed, counter-attacks and we didn’t counter-attack enough in the second half.”

and the Blades settle for a point against their fellow promotion chasers, who had a goal ruled out in the first half - the closest United came was when Fleck hit the post late on but on the balance of it a point was probably fair. It lifts United to seventh ahead of the 3pm games and they’ve still got a game in hand on sixth-placed Forest. Stay tuned for player ratings, a full match report and reaction from both managers

for the Blades as Fleck hits an effort from a well-worked corner kick - it bounces back, hits the ‘keeper and goes out for another corner, which sees an almighty scramble that sees McBurnie and Berge have efforts blocked. McBurnie is then replaced by Ndiaye for the final few minutes here

as McBurnie collides with Lees as they go up for a cross, but the referee waves them away

to get across and cut out the cross from the right before it reached Ward in the middle for a tap in

after an aerial challenge sees him catch his marker in the face, nothing malicious in it and the booking is issued

sees Norwood replace Gibbs-White on his return to Huddersfield, where he played earlier in his career

decisively after Town get in down the left of united’s dfence, the cross comes in aimed for Thomas but Foderingham gets there and holds on

as McBurnie takes a blow to the head, he’s up again now though

from outside the area after being invited to do just that by his fans, he hits it well but Nicholls is down to palm it away

from McBurnie’s looping header after United won the ball back up, Gibbs-White’s shot was blocked and McBurnie looked to catch out the goalkeeper, who recovered well to save

is too close to Nicholls and the Town goalkeeper collects easily, before sending it straight out of play as he looked to launch a quick counter-attack

as he’s fed by Sharp in a good position, but his sidefooted effort isn’t strong enough and Nicholls saves

as he turns and fires towards goal, but it hits the sidenetting only - a positive start to the second half though from the Blades