Oli McBurnie gives high-flying Sheffield United victory over flat Brighton

21 December 2019 05:12
From the Championship to the Champions League in a little over a year? Sheffield United would have been escorted off the premises if they had trumpeted that as an ambition before the start of this season but the Premier League table shows that Chris Wilder and his team are now redefining what is reasonable. They will go into Christmas within touching distance of the top-four thanks to another deserved away win.With no one having managed to beat Sheffield United away from home this season, it fell to Graham Potter to try to orchestrate their downfall. He succeeded in doing that when he was in charge of Swansea but that match, more than 11 months ago in the Championship, remains the last away game that Wilder’s team have lost in any league. Swansea’s scorer that day was Oli McBurnie and now, following his £20m summer transfer, he is doing the business for the Blades. His goal here was his third since his move and it rewarded another accomplished performance by the visitors. Continue readingreadfullarticle

Source: TheGuardian