Live Sheffield United vs Bristol City: Score and latest updates from the Championship play-off
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12 May 2025 7:08pm
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All together now
You fill up my senses,
Like a gallon of Magnet,
Like a packet of Woodbines,
Like a good pinch of snuff,
Like a night out in Sheffield,
Like a greasy chip butty,
Like Sheffield United,
Come fill me again
7:04PM
Bristol City team news
Four changes for City.
Your City side to face Sheffield United! 📋
⬅️ Hirakawa, Dickie, Williams, Mehmeti
➡️ Roberts, Pring, Twine, Earthy pic.twitter.com/Ln051jCMfP
— Bristol City FC (@BristolCity) May 12, 2025
7:02PM
Sheffield United team news
Two changes: Cannon replaces Campbell and Brooks comes in for Brewster.
The Blades ⚔️ pic.twitter.com/HMtP6qcUfP
— Sheffield United (@SheffieldUnited) May 12, 2025
6:36PM
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6:30PM
Preview: Bristol City's Everest
Good evening and welcome to live coverage of the second leg of the first Championship play-off final between Sheffield United and Bristol City from Bramall Lane. Given that it starts with the Blades 3-0 up from the first leg at Ashton Gate in a victory defined by Rob Dickie's sending off, a justified decision in the considered opinion of the former professionals on Sky's punditry panel and one with which this author would agree, I have been trawling through the 38 years of play-off history to try to find some solace for Liam Manning's side tonight.
And unfortunately there is no example of overcoming a three-goal deficit away from home in the second leg. Sheffield Wednesday came back from 4-0 down at London Road to beat Peterborough 5-1 at home in the League One semi two years ago, Bradford City beat Blackpool 3-0 at Bloomfield Road having lost 2-0 at Valley Parade in 1996 also at that level and Yeovil, remarkably, came back from losing 2-0 against Nottingham Forest at Huish Park to win 5-2 at the City Ground in 2007 but there's nothing exactly like the mountain facing Bristol City tonight.
Manning's side have scored three on the road only once this season in their 3-1 victory over Preston North End but twice scored four at home. Sheffield United have conceded three goals twice at home, in their 3-0 defeat by Hull and 3-1 by Leeds United in January and February respectively but United are at full strength and the visitors are going to have to try to do something that's never been done without both Dickie and the midfielder Joe Williams who rattled the crossbar at Ashton Gate before having to limp off.
Still, in the words of the actor and broadcaster Dean Smith summing up the unpredictability of the most competitive and exciting league in Europe, 'the Championship's gonna Championship'. What seems implausible in other divisions happens frequently in this one. But even so… surely not tonight.
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