The home side will wonder how they failed to take all three points from this game. While Sheffield United carved out a chance or two in the second half it was very much against one way traffic.<\/p>\n
The Blades had to rely on an excellent display in goal from Adam Davies to keep a charging Birmingham at bay with Demarai Gray twice denied.<\/p>\n
Ducksch also saw an effort kept out by Davies and twice hit the crossbar, the first with a header and the second with another free-kick. <\/p>\n
There was little argument about Seriki’s dismissal with the defender clumsily bringing down Ibrahim Osman after Patrick Roberts’ through ball sent the forward racing in just outside the area.<\/p>\n
Referee Tim Robinson rightly judged Seriki to be the last man with team-mate Tyler Bindon not close enough to be considered a covering defender.<\/p>\n
There was no stopping Ducksch’s bullet free-kick from 20 yards either with Davies beaten in the top right corner.<\/p>\n
Shortly after Sheffield United were awarded a penalty after a strange miscalculation from defender Robinson following a long floated ball over the heads of the Birmingham defence.<\/p>\n
Beadle caught the ball then rolled it to Robinson, who, believing the ball had gone out of play, picked it up and placed it down for a goal kick, the official booking him and pointing to the spot.<\/p>\n
It was a lifeline Sheffield United failed to grab with Peck’s spot-kick saved by Beadle in the bottom left corner. <\/p>\n
Yet the visitors were level just before the break after Bamford at full stretch brought a long ball from Harrison Burrows under control, rounded the keeper and slotted home from a tightening angle.<\/p>\n
It was pretty much all Blues in the second half but as much as they huffed, puffed and created a handful of chances, Davies was in inspired form and they were unable to find a winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The home side will wonder how they failed to take all three points from this game. While Sheffield…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-475749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}