Sheffield United vs Wrexham - prediction, team news, lineups

Wrexham volition marque the travel to Bramall Lane for Friday's Championship clash against Sheffield United. 

The Red Dragons are sitting successful 17th spot successful the Championship table, portion the Blades are 2 points amended disconnected successful 12th position. 

Match preview

Sheffield United are sitting 4 points adrift of the apical 8 aft picking up 16 points from their 12 league matches. 

Chris Wilder's charges person proven to beryllium a pugnacious squad to bushed since the planetary break, having mislaid conscionable 1 of their erstwhile 4 matches.

The Blades recorded victories against Lincoln City and Bristol City, either broadside of a 3-2 decision to Portsmouth, earlier they played retired a gully successful their astir caller outing against struggling Derby County.

Patrick Bamford scored a 79th-minute equaliser against a Derby broadside that had been reduced to 10 men 13 minutes earlier, but the Blades failed to propulsion connected for a victor arsenic they settled for an underwhelming point. 

That said, they person picked up 4 points from their past 2 outings astatine Bramall Lane and could present spell 3 consecutive Championship location games without decision for the archetypal clip successful 2026.

The hosts are besides searching for their archetypal league triumph against Wrexham since 1983, having mislaid each of their erstwhile 3 EFL meetings. 

Phil Parkinson led Wrexham to 3 consecutive promotions earlier past season's seventh-place finish, but contempt his good enactment implicit the years, helium present appears to beryllium nether increasing unit to support his occupation astatine the Racecourse Ground.

That is due to the fact that the Red Dragons are successful the bottommost fractional of the standings aft winning three, drafting 5 and losing 4 of their league 12 matches this term.

In fact, Parkinson's charges person mislaid 2 of their erstwhile 3 matches, including a 2-1 location decision to West Bromwich Albion.

Wrexham bounced backmost with an emphatic 4-1 triumph implicit struggling Preston North End, lone to beryllium rapidly stopped successful their tracks by past Saturday's 2-0 nonaccomplishment against Blackburn Rovers astatine Ewood Park.

That disappointing effect made it 4 consecutive distant games without a triumph since hammering Millwall 3-0 astatine the commencement of September (D2, L2).

With Wrexham keen to extremity that winless tally connected Friday, they whitethorn gully assurance from past season's 2 meetings with Sheffield United, which saw them propulsion disconnected a 5-3 triumph astatine the Racecourse Ground and a 2-1 triumph astatine Bramall Lane. 

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Team News

The hosts are incapable to telephone upon attacker Ryan One, who has suffered a hamstring occupation aft precocious making his comeback from a nine-game wounded absence. 

The Blades are besides without Matt Doherty and Jamie Shackleton, portion Patrick Bamford is simply a uncertainty aft coming disconnected with a enarthrosis contented successful the gully with Derby.

Femi Siriki is present an enactment for Wilder aft making his instrumentality from a two-month spell connected the sidelines with a substitute quality against the Rams. 

As for the visitors, Parkinson remains without the services of Max Cleworth, Liberato Cacace, George Thomason and Nathan Broadhead. 

The crippled is besides expected to travel excessively soon for cardinal attacker Josh Windass, who has missed the past 3 games with an ankle problem.

Former Sheffield United striker Kieffer Moore volition pb the enactment for Wrexham, arsenic helium looks to proceed his caller signifier aft scoring 2 goals successful the past 3 matches. 

Sheffield United imaginable starting lineup:

Cooper, Choudhury, Tanganga, Kitching, Burrows; Chong, Phillips, Peck, Brereton Diaz;  Cannon, Ayew

Wrexham imaginable starting lineup:

Patterson; Hyam, Worrall, Doyle, Kabore, Rathbone, Whiteman; Smith, O'Hare; Moore

We say: Sheffield United 1-1 Wrexham

Wrexham volition beryllium keen to assertion their archetypal distant triumph since September, but we deliberation they volition person to settee for a constituent against a Sheffield United broadside that has mislaid conscionable 1 of their erstwhile 4 matches. 

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