{"id":847986,"date":"2025-05-13T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/sheffield-united-3-0-bristol-city-6-0-agg-wilders-side-reach-play-off-final-with-record-rout\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:13:54","slug":"sheffield-united-3-0-bristol-city-6-0-agg-wilders-side-reach-play-off-final-with-record-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/sheffield-united-3-0-bristol-city-6-0-agg-wilders-side-reach-play-off-final-with-record-rout\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield United 3-0 Bristol City (6-0 agg): Wilder\u00b4s side reach play-off final with record rout"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sheffield United coasted into the Championship play-off final after a 3-0 victory secured a record-breaking 6-0 aggregate triumph over Bristol City on Monday.<\/p>\n

Sunderland or Coventry City, who trail 2-1 from the first leg, await in the final at Wembley Stadium after Chris Wilder\u2019s side eased into the showpiece with a convincing performance at Bramall Lane.<\/p>\n

United will aim for an immediate return to the Premier League with real confidence, given no side has ever won by a larger aggregate margin over two legs in Championship play-off history than this thrashing.<\/p>\n

Trailing 3-0 from the opening semi-final meeting, Liam Manning\u2019s visitors came flying out of the blocks as Scott Twine dragged wide and Jason Knight tested the hands of Michael Cooper.<\/p>\n

However, as was the case in the first leg, City had no answer for United\u2019s attacking threat as two set-pieces on either side of half-time did significant damage.<\/p>\n

Goalkeeper Max O\u2019Leary was caught lacking as Harrison Burrows\u2019 right-sided corner found Kieffer Moore to head home the opening goal four minutes before the interval.<\/p>\n

Another Burrows set-piece, again from the right flank, brought United\u2019s second in fortuitous circumstances in the 52nd minute.<\/p>\n

Full-back Burrows angled towards the edge of the area, with a neat Andre Brooks dummy allowing Gustavo Hamer to score thanks to a huge deflection off Ross McCrorie with a strike that kissed the left-hand post.<\/p>\n

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Knight steered wide in response before Callum O\u2019Hare almost teed up Tyrese Campbell moments after the pair were introduced in a triple change by the buoyant Wilder.<\/p>\n

The excellent Burrows then stepped over a delicate Campbell centre, opening the space for O\u2019Hare to bury past O\u2019Leary for his second goal in as many play-off matches, having also netted the third in the first leg.<\/p>\n

Wilder\u2019s challenge is now to take his side back to the top flight at the first time of asking, but United have never succeeded in any play-off quest across nine previous efforts in the English Football League.<\/p>\n

Data Debrief: Familiar failings haunt City<\/strong><\/p>\n

United had lost each of their last two home play-off fixtures (2-1 against Nottingham Forest in 2022 and 2-1 versus Swindon Town in 2015), but ended that poor run with an impressive performance on Monday.<\/p>\n

They are also now unbeaten across their last nine games in all competitions against City (W7 D2).<\/p>\n

It was always going to be a tough ask, however, as no side has ever progressed in the EFL play-offs after losing the first leg on home soil by a three-goal margin.<\/p>\n

The defeat did continue a concerning run for Manning, though, given his side won just four of their 23 away Championship games this regular season, with only five sides in the division managing fewer. <\/p>\n

However, the underlying data hardly painted a one-sided affair at Bramall Lane, with United accumulating only 1.33 expected goals to City\u2019s 0.47, suggesting a difference in finishing rather than chance creation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Soccer Sheffield United coasted into the Championship play-off final after a 3-0 victory secured a record-breaking 6-0 aggregate triumph over Bristol City on Monday. Sunderland or Coventry City, who trail 2-1 from the first leg, await in the final at Wembley Stadium after Chris Wilder\u2019s side eased into the showpiece with a convincing performance at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25824,2005,2620],"tags":[53137,8131],"class_list":{"0":"post-847986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-united","10":"tag-sheffield","11":"tag-united"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}