As part of the 15th round of the English Championship, Sheffield United met Liverpool at home.
The match turned out to be extremely boring and the audience didn’t see a lot of moments. The Blades were unable to create any danger in front of the visitors' goal and the Reds appeared to be emotionally drained after the thriller at Fulham at the weekend.
Midway through the first half, Trent Alexander-Arnold took a corner kick in the 17th minute of the match and found Virgil van Dijk with his cross, who opened the scoring in the match.
Already at the end of the match, Darwin Nunez passed an excellent pass to Dominik Szoboszlai, who, without resistance, found himself in the penalty area, sent the ball into the goal of Wes Fodderingham.
However, there was bad news for the Merseysiders. Alexis Mac Allister was injured in the 59th minute and Curtis Jones came on instead.. The nature of the Argentinean's injury is still unknown.
At the moment, Liverpool is in 2nd place in the Premier League, two points behind Arsenal, and Sheffield is in last position, 4 points behind the saving 17th place.
Statistics of the English Championship match Sheffield United – Liverpool
Sheffield United – Liverpool 0:2
Goal : Van Dijk 17, Szoboszlai 90+4
xG : 0.24 – 1.44
Beats : 3 – 14
Shots on target : 1 – 7
Ball possession : 22% – 78%
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