Stoke City v Sheffield United: Reaction as Blades fall to defeat and fall out of play-offs

after he let fly on the angle, Foderingham looked beaten but it flashed the right side of the post from a United perspective as the Blades make their first change, replacing Norwood with Ndiaye

and opens up his body to try and sidefoot the ball home, but it’s straight at Bonham who saves comfortably

as Norrington-Davies went down as he looked to cross, there was definitely contact but nothing is given

and Maja again almost touches it home but he somehow misses the ball entirely - United given a number of warnings here that they must heed

as a superb cross from the left gives Maja the chance to touch it home, but he was put off just enough by Egan and he poked it wide - huge chance to open the scoring here

as a dangerous cross is smashed across the face of goal, he gets enough on it at full stretch to divert it behind and prevent a certain opening goal

to dive at the feet of Maja and get to the ball before the striker, after a poked throughball threatened to set him free

for the second half - no changes for the Blades at the break

and it’s goalless at the break - to be kind, it looks like two teams feeling their way back into things after the international break but the game itself has been pretty average at very best - so many misplaced passes, missed touches and when the highlight in terms of entertainment has been the referee being poleaxed by the ball, that pretty much tells the story. Let’s hope for a bit better in the second half...