on-loan Manchester United keeper Radek Vitek <\/a>making a string of fine saves.<\/p>\nCity are up to 11th, seven points off the top six with five matches left. Sheffield United stay 17th. <\/p>\n
Both sides managed a single shot on target in the first half, with the Robins scoring with theirs. <\/p>\n
An intricate one-touch move saw a sublime pass from midfielder Max Bird split the Blades defence.<\/p>\n
Keeper Adam Davies just beat Emil Riis to the ball, but his clearance could only find Sykes, whose right-footed shot from outside the box was threaded past three defenders into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n
Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder made two changes at half-time, bringing on midfielder Gustavo Hamer and winger Andre Brooks, transforming their attacking threat. <\/p>\n
Keeper Vitek palmed away a curling Hamer shot from the edge of the box, before saving superbly from Brooks. The Czech then dived bravely at the feet of Patrick Bamford.<\/p>\n
Bamford also had a golden opportunity to equalise but turned a delightful Femi Seriki cross over the bar from six yards. <\/p>\n
Vitek then saved again as a header from defender Mark McGuinness threatened to loop over his head.<\/p>\n
It is now six matches without a win for Wilder’s side as they prepare to welcome promotion-chasers Hull City on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Bristol City will attempt to continue Hodgson’s 100% record – and make it three successive wins for only the second time this season – when they visit QPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol City interim manager Roy Hodgson made it two successive wins as his side hung on to beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-385012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}