📏 Form Guide

Sheffield United

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Sheffield United go into this fixture following a 2-2 Premier League drawn result versus Bournemouth.

In that match, Sheffield United had 30% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 9 on target. For Sheffield United, goals were scored by Gustavo Hamer (27') and Jack Robinson (64'). At the other end, Bournemouth got 32 attempts on goal with 12 on target. Dango Ouattara (74') and Enes Ünal (91') scored for Bournemouth.

Matches with Sheffield United have often been entertaining affairs of late with plenty of scoring expected. Over their past half dozen games alone, a grand total of 25 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 4.17 goals per game) with 5 of them coming from Sheffield United. That kind of trend might not be continued here, however.

Going into this contest, Sheffield United are without a win at home for the past 5 matches in the league. Fans are getting restless.

Fulham

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Fulham head into the match following on from a 3-0 Premier League win against Tottenham Hotspur in their most recent game.

In that game, Fulham managed 43% possession and 16 shots at goal with 7 on target. For Fulham, goals were scored by Rodrigo Muniz (42', 61') and Saša Lukić (49'). For their opponents, Tottenham Hotspur got 14 attempts at goal with 5 on target.

In their last 6 clashes, Fulham have amassed the sum of 13 goals. Fulham have also managed to score in every single one of those games. Over that period, their defenders have seen 6 goals go against them.

Going into this contest, Fulham have not emerged victorious against Sheffield United in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 06/03/2018 shows that Sheffield United have won 2 of these & Fulham 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

15 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 7 of them for The Blades and 8 netted by The Cottagers. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The last league game featuring these sides was Premier League match day 8 on 07/10/2023 when the final score was Fulham 3-1 Sheffield United.

That time, Fulham managed 60% possession and 20 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Goals were scored by Bobby De Cordova-Reid (53'), Antonee Robinson (68' Own goal) and Willian (92').

Sheffield United got 5 shots at goal with 2 on target. Wes Foderingham (76' Own goal) scored.

The referee was Samuel Barrott.

ℹ️ Team News: Sheffield United

John Egan (Foot injury) and Chris Basham (Leg injury) won’t be able to feature for Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder.

📋 Team News: Fulham

With a completely healthy squad available to select from, the Fulham manager Marco Silva does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever before this clash.

💡 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Sheffield United will really need to work well to hit the back of the net against this Fulham outfit who we think should score one, at least.

We’ve gone for a hard-fought 0-1 victory for Fulham when all is said and done.

We’ll see what happens.

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Peter Guest, 14:04 30/03/2024