Chris Wilder
Sheffield UnitedVincent Kompany
Burnley
Meeting Highlights…INJURY REPORT
Jack Robinson and Jayden Bogle are both struggling to be available for the weekend and it is a blow for the team to lose two influential players in the group. Jack from a leadership point of view and Jayden as one of our most outstanding players in the way he has gone about his business. My frustration has been the soft tissue injuries this season. These boys have both had injuries, ankle ligament damages, from falling... We are frustrated but most frustrating is when you lose players to soft tissue injuries or in training - those are the ones that hurt us. Last time in the Premier League in 2019-20, availability for training and playing was at 90%. We are nowhere near that this season and that will go a long way for us to have a successful season - whatever division we are in next year.
…ABOUT THE MATCH
We want to take it down to the wire and we understand the importance of every game. We prepared accordingly and will be ready for the match.
…BURNLEY
had a more settled pre-season than what we had, but like us they have found it difficult and found results difficult to come by. Both teams are after three points. We are in it to win it and so will they be. We haven't picked up enough points that performances have deserved recently. We need to play well, show the qualities of recent games and marry performance with a big result.
Chris Wilder
Manager on Sheffield United…INJURY REPORT
Jack Robinson and Jayden Bogle are both struggling to be available for the weekend and it is a blow for the team to lose two influential players in the group. Jack from a leadership point of view and Jayden as one of our most outstanding players in the way he has gone about his business. My frustration has been the soft tissue injuries this season. These boys have both had injuries, ankle ligament damages, from falling... We are frustrated but most frustrating is when you lose players to soft tissue injuries or in training - those are the ones that hurt us. Last time in the Premier League in 2019-20, availability for training and playing was at 90%. We are nowhere near that this season and that will go a long way for us to have a successful season - whatever division we are in next year.
…ABOUT THE MATCH
We want to take it down to the wire and we understand the importance of every game. We prepared accordingly and will be ready for the match.
…BURNLEY
had a more settled pre-season than what we had, but like us they have found it difficult and found results difficult to come by. Both teams are after three points. We are in it to win it and so will they be. We haven't picked up enough points that performances have deserved recently. We need to play well, show the qualities of recent games and marry performance with a big result.
Vincent Kompany
Manager on Burnley...ABOUT THE MATCH
It is seen as a must-win game for both of the promoted sides if they are to keep their slim hopes alive of avoiding an immediate return to the Championship. If you were to draw a line and restart the league almost at this calendar year, I think this team is on the way to becoming hopefully an interesting proposition for this league. But we're running out of games so it has to happen in the next five.
...SELF CRITISICM
We're still nowhere near getting the results we think we could. The games are decided in the final third and it's been on a knife-edge. That's where you want it because it gives us a chance. Since the start of the season we've had valuable additions in January, we've recovered a few players as well. It's been fine margins for a while now, that's the nature of the league.
...ABOUT THE SEASON
The biggest thing for me is this season, the amount of times at the end of the game we're sat in the staff room and looked at ourselves and How did we not come away with a win or a point? That's been the season. We can pin it down to some key moments. But we can look back as much as we want. It's about the five games in front of us.