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Sheffield United

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Sheffield United will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 0-1 Championship victory against Portsmouth.

In that game, Sheffield United had 41% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Sheffield United was Andre Brooks (90'). For their opponents, Portsmouth got 23 attempts on goal with 7 on target.

It has been seldom in recent times that Sheffield United have shown defensive steel. In fact, Sheffield United have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 6 goals in the process. Previous results aside, time will tell whether such a trend shall be maintained in this match or not.

Coming into this clash, Sheffield United have not lost a league tie with Sheffield Wednesday in their previous 7 matches.

Sheffield Wednesday

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Millwall in Championship competition, Sheffield Wednesday will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Sheffield Wednesday managed 32% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For Sheffield Wednesday, goals were scored by Jamal Lowe (60') and Cole McGhee (72' Own goal). At the other end, Millwall got 19 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Macauley Langstaff (74') was the scorer for Millwall.

The forward players for Sheffield Wednesday have suffered from a lack of goals over their previous 6 games, contributing the disappointing return of only 1. In those matches, The Owls have also seen the overall goal aggregate of their opponents equal 12.

A look at their previous results shows us that Sheffield Wednesday:

• have not emerged victorious against Sheffield United when they've played them away from home in the last 5 league games. Not good at all.
• are without an away win for the past 12 league games. A poor run.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes dating back to 12/01/2018 shows that Sheffield United have won 3 of them and Sheffield Wednesday 0, with the tally of drawn results standing at 3.

Goals were few and far between in those games, too, with a sum of 5 scored between them overall.

The last league fixture featuring the two was Championship match day 16 on 23/11/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Sheffield Wednesday 0-3 Sheffield United.

On that occasion, Sheffield Wednesday had 59% possession and 5 shots at goal with 0 of them on target.

Sheffield United got 11 shots on goal with 7 on target. Tyrese Campbell (11', 48') and Tom Cannon (91') scored.

The match was refereed by David Webb.

ℹ️ Team News: Sheffield United

It looks as if The Blades could use the 4-4-2 formation in the match, handing starts to Michael Cooper, Femi Seriki, Japhet Tanganga, Tyler Bindon, Harrison Burrows, Andre Brooks, Sydie Peck, Kalvin Phillips, Callum O'Hare, Patrick Bamford and Gustavo Hamer.

📋 Team News: Sheffield Wednesday

We’re of the thinking that The Owls will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 system, starting Seny Dieng, Liam Palmer, Gabriel Otegbayo, Liam Cooper, Omotayo Adaramola, Jaden Heskey, Svante Ingelsson, Charlie McNeill, Jamal Lowe, Olaf Kobacki and Jerry Yates.

💡 Prediction

We envisage that Sheffield Wednesday have it in them to score a goal against this Sheffield United side, however that isn’t expected to be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re tipping a close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Sheffield United by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Looking forward to seeing how this one unfolds.

Lucas Pereira, 23:02 21/02/2026