The togetherness and momentum that Chris Wilder built has dissipated with the manager's exit. A lovely early pass from Boly sends Traore away and in behind the defence... but his effort on goal is awful. They tumbled from the dizzying heights of a Champions League semi-final in 2001 to playing in League One in 2007, the club’s first experience of the third tier of English football. All three clubs finished on 33 points. They will be hoping to emulate their former peers, Leicester and Wolves, and Leeds fans will be hoping for a return trip to the Mestalla as opposed to Moss Rose. United had the first opening of the second period with a free hit by the unmarked Enda Stevens inside the box, but Nelson Semedo blocked. Sheffield’s only threat of the opening 45 minutes was a long-range drive from captain John Fleck that flew narrowly over Rui Patricio’s bar, midway through the half. The game is set up for them to counter-attack and utilise Traore's pace, which needs space, which isn't available in a packed defence playing against a team keeping the ball the whole time. Uhhhh like John Egan: the defender of a thousand uses. But wait! Sheff Utd had a chance there. If Sheff Utd had anything to play for there's every chance that Wolves would go on to score a second and a third now. Done. Leicester’s first two seasons back in the Premier League were as dramatic a double act as English football has ever produced. All I ask is that both teams try really hard to score as many goals as possible and don't just sit waiting to counter-attack each other. ixteen years have passed since Leeds last played a game in the top flight, the longest gap between Premier League fixtures for any club. At last someone has a chance to score and it's Sheffield United, who work the ball up the right wing quickly, cut it back and a shot on the edge of the area is blocked. This is not the best game of football I've seen. Realistically doomed to relegation and they sang their heart out for 90 minutes, engaged in plenty of light-hearted banter and stayed to applaud both their own players and Brighton in their lap of honour. I hadn't seen this story from last night but Sheffield United announced yesterday that chairman Prince Musaad Bin Khalid Al Saud was standing down for personal reasons. They've been woeful. Nothing wrong with either's approach but I think you've probably read their pre-match words about 10000 times in different forms by similar people. Podence brought the ball out of defence in the right back position before finding Leander Dendoncker for a first-time pass to Traoré, who burst forward, beating John Egan for pace before crossing low from the tight for Jose to turn home ahead of Ampadu. Their 3-0 aggregate defeat to the mighty Aldershot in the Fourth Division play-off final in 1987 was another low moment. Silva was waiting in position for a low cross too. Based on what we saw at Hibs, Paul Heckinbottom might not be the solution, and so Sheff Utd need to decide what sort of head coach they want, how they want to play and if it's different to how Wilder set them up, and if that is the case, will need to sign a lot of different players to go that route. The boy has just fallen over under pressure. Mandaric sold the club to Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, the owner of the duty-free retailer King Power, in February 2012 and the club has not looked back since. Why. The 2012–13 season was the 114th season of competitive league football in the history of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers.The club competed in the second tier of the English football system, the Football League Championship.They had returned to the second level having been relegated from the Premier League after three seasons during the previous season. Straight at the goalie. Wolves corner, curled into the box, and Boly has just tried this reactive backheel flick thing as the ball bounces to get an improvised shot to loop over the goalkeeper and into the net... and were there not a defender on the line behind him, that would have been a very cool goal. Over the bar. This is brilliant from Traore, who obviously goes past the defender on the outside before drilling a low pass into the area to set up a tap in. This is what the teams look like for tonight's game: I think that's a 3-4-1-2 for Wolves and a 3-5-2 for Sheff Utd. This was Leeds’ first ever game in the third tier of English football. He's planted his foot on Brewster's ankle but only really because he's trying to get his body around the ball to protect it and Brewster has stretched in to reach the 50/50. There's method behind Santo's approach. Leicester had been promoted to the Premier League at the start of the 2003-04 season thanks in part to their former player Gary Lineker. Mousset and Burke on for Osborn and Brewster. That's it. Mousset was offside anyway. After another spell in the Premier League at the start of the 2010s, they suffered successive relegations and fell back into League One in 2013. Then they try and break. The night Wolves became ‘champions of the world’ against Honved | Nick Miller, David O'Leary: 'My Leeds players were totally fearless and really, really brave', From starters to five: a short history of football substitutions. They went one better the following year, finishing fourth in League One, but again they stumbled in the play-offs, losing to Millwall in the semi-finals. Willy Boly is back today after going through a self-isolation period but Ruben Neves is absent because of a positive test. He must just be desperate to make some sort of impact on the game, or the team. Sheff Utd enjoying a spell of attacking possession. He'll be important next season. 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