Championship

RYAN’S SLIP GIFTS BLADES WELCOME LIFT

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The LeaguePaper Team
26 February 2023

Heckingbottom cheered by ‘huge win’
By Chris Dunlavy

SHEFFIELD UTD 1
Porteous 73 (og)

WATFORD 0

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PUMPED: Oli McBurnie celebrates the Blades’ winner

SHEFFIELD United breathed a sigh of relief after victory over Watford restored a seven-point gap to third-placed Middlesbrough.
Eleven points clear in the middle of January, back-to-back defeats had reduced the cushion to just four and left the Blades nervously looking over their shoulders.
But after surviving a first-half penalty scare, United forged ahead...

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