Mark Sykes produced a cool low finish past covering defenders after 23 minutes after Blades goalkeeper Adam Davies had advanced from his area to win a 50-50 challenge with Emil Riis in the 1-0 win.<\/p>\n
However, the visitors were transformed after a lethargic opening 45 minutes and Manchester United loanee Vitek denied them at least a point with a string of fine saves to keep out efforts from Andre Brooks twice, Gus Hamer, Patrick Bamford and Mark McGuinness.<\/p>\n
Hodgson, whose last home game in charge of City was 44 years ago, said: \u201cI have only watched our players for two games so I have to be careful what I say, but from what I have seen Radek has all the attributes to be a Premier League goalkeeper.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want your keeper to have a good physique, be a good shot-stopper, command his area when it comes to crosses and have a powerful kick. To me, he fills all those requirements.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs at Charlton on Friday, I enjoyed our first-half performance more than the second, but I was more proud of the second because of the attitude shown to claim another win.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my short time here, I have just tried to get certain messages across and the way the players have responded has been unbelievably good.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey deserve the credit. Some have played out of their normal position because of the injuries to our centre-backs and have adapted really well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I was a City supporter I would be delighted with the sort of effort and performance the team produced today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blases boss Chris Wilder frustrated City defender Cam Pring was not sent off after 12 minutes for chopping down Femi Seriki after being booked for a fourth-minute foul.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe referee told me our player was not in a promising attacking position. I can\u2019t agree with that, but it shouldn\u2019t affect the decision in any case.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see by their player\u2019s reaction that he feared a second yellow. I keep having to say the same thing, but the standard of refereeing has to be better.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Championship is a division where little separates a lot of the teams and big decisions often affect the outcome of games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not saying that\u2019s why we lost. Our first-half performance was way off what I expect, but it would have helped if we had been facing 10 men for most of the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the end we did enough to win, let alone draw. I would think their keeper went home with a bottle of champagne.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Sykes produced a cool low finish past covering defenders after 23 minutes after Blades goalkeeper Adam Davies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-158909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}