Only Blackburn Rovers (39) have dropped more points from winning positions than Sheffield United (34) since the start of last season in the Championship.<\/p>\n
And having twice lost against Wrexham last term after going in front on both occasions, Wilder will have been hugely impressed by his side’s defensive effort this time around.<\/p>\n
They dominated much of the first half, and even after Wrexham started to come to life in the second half, the Blades looked rock solid throughout.<\/p>\n
It ensured they kept a fifth clean sheet of the campaign in the league to maintain their charge up the table.<\/p>\n
The visitors were without attackers Josh Windass, Nathan Broadhead and Callum O’Hare in South Yorkshire, and it certainly showed.<\/p>\n
The away side ended the contest with an expected goals (xG) figure of just 0.6 – with their only effort on target coming from Smith in the last minute of added time.<\/p>\n
Since the start of last season’s Championship, Wrexham’s win rate drops from 40.4% to 27.3% when Windass is not involved.<\/p>\n
Their points-per-game figure also falls from 1.53 to 1.18 without last season’s top scorer Windass.<\/p>\n
It has swiftly become evident that they desperately need to find another way of carrying a threat in the final third without the aforementioned forward’s talents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only Blackburn Rovers (39) have dropped more points from winning positions than Sheffield United (34) since the start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819191","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=819191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}