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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 7 (setup 4, season 34)
Sheffield United
v.
Darlington
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
Pierluigi GOLLINI1Hugo LLORIS
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
15
Overall form:
Home form:
John EGAN727Gregory VAN DER WIEL
Enda STEVENS738Jan VERTONGHEN
John LUNDSTRAM4Jordan HENDERSON
Chris BASHAM57Fábio Henrique Tavares, FABINHO
Jack O'CONNELL766John BOSTOCK
George BALDOCK76Pierre LEES-MELOU
Mahmoud Hassan, TRÉZÉGUET786Danny WELBECK
Billy SHARP797Mario Barwuah BALOTELLI
John FLECK10Dean PARRETT
David McGOLDRICK116Stevan JOVETIC
Manager
Kean BRYAN12Yasser LAROUCI
Simon MOORE13Jon FLATT
Oliver NORWOOD14Christian GENTNER
Derick Katuku TSHIMANGA15Joël MATIP
Conor HOURIHANE16Federico MACHEDA

Sheffield United 0 Darlington 1
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 30,339, Stadium: Bramall Lane, Referee: Graham HORWOOD 6)
Scorers58 Balotelli
Substitutions
Sendings off
68 Trézéguet, 85 O'ConnellBookings49 Fabinho, 53 Parrett
7Corners6
10Fouls17
6Offsides4
5Shots on5
9Shots off6
14Total shots11
5Shots saved4
51%Possession49%
Man of the match: Jan VERTONGHEN
2LLORIS was able to palm clear a wicked effort.
3A tame strike from STEVENS rolled agonisingly wide.
9A shot from TRÉZÉGUET was smothered by the Darlington 'keeper.
15An exceptional strike from BALOTELLI was dealt with by a fine block from the Sheffield United 'keeper.
20A corner fell to TRÉZÉGUET who fired the ball over.
20JOVETIC ran onto a delightful ball from HENDERSON but hit his shot wide of the righthand post.
25The Darlington 'keeper saved a neatly crafted strike from MCGOLDRICK.
32WELBECK clipped the ball through a ruck of players but the Sheffield United 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
38A accurate pass was collected by STEVENS and his right foot shot raced narrowly wide.
44PARRETT beat a number of Sheffield United players and drove an effort over the bar.
45A strike from TRÉZÉGUET held no problem for LLORIS.
 
46PARRETT played the ball to BALOTELLI who turned it inches wide.
47A penalty box meleé resulted in O'CONNELL tapping a low shot over.
49FABINHO given a yellow card by the referee for a late tackle.
51A fine ball from BASHAM on the left found TRÉZÉGUET who scuffed his effort just beyond the far post.
53The ref yellow cards PARRETT.
56A free-kick from FLECK floated wide.
58GOAL!! A shot from BALOTELLI raced through a crowd of players and rolled past the unsighted GOLLINI. (1-0 Darlington)
68TRÉZÉGUET cautioned for a clinical tackle on BALOTELLI.
74Uncertainty in the Darlington defence enabled TRÉZÉGUET to crack an effort inches wide.
85O'CONNELL booked for arguing with the referee.
88The bemused 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from EGAN dropped just wide.