• Follow the Sheffield derby action from 7.45pm GMT • Norwich back on top as Stoke sink Forest• Email Simon with your thoughts or tweet @Simon_Burnton 6.53pm GMT The starting XIs will look something like this:Sheffield Wednesday: Westwood, Palmer, Fletcher, Bannan, Lees, Reach, Hutchinson, Iorfa, Hector, Aarons, Forestieri.Sheffield United: Henderson, Stevens, Fleck, O’Connell, Basham, Dowell, Sharp, Egan, Madine, Norwood, Freeman. Here's how we line-up in tonight's Steel City derby, in association with @Ladbrokes ?? | #swfcLIVE pic.twitter.com/cwrS7D1goK???? CONFIRMED TEAM | Chris Wilder makes 3? changes. O’Connell, Basham & Madine all start. It’s @swfc v @SUFC_tweets in the @SkyBetChamp, kick-off is 7.45pm#sufc #ForgedinSteel #twitterblades pic.twitter.com/XcSnOR8Jox 3.45pm GMT If you thought derby weekend ended when the final whistle blew at Goodison Park yesterday you are gravely mistaken. Perhaps they saved the best until last, with a Steel City Derby of massive importance and extensive all-round interest. Sheffield United will go second if they win, and while Wednesday are a massive 17 points further back they are a side transformed under Steve Bruce, and share United’s record of having lost but a single league game in 2019 (and that was way back on 12 January; United’s defeat was a week later). If they win tonight they will go level on points with another of Bruce’s former clubs, Birmingham, in eighth (though unless it’s a real thrashing they will themselves be 11th, for goal-differential reasons) and the play-offs will start to look like a genuine possibility. “The whole of the country will be watching the Sheffield game so let’s make it a spectacle,” roared Bruce. Continue readingreadfullarticle
