Spurs head to the Steel City on a run of wretched form in the PL, having squandered yet another lead in a dreadful performance against the Blades relegation rivals Fulham on Wednesday. As he did at Chelsea and Manchester United, Jose Mourinho has managed to squeeze the footballing life out of a talented squad by leaving as many attacking players as possible on the bench. That, combined with our players' chronic inability to finish off weaker opposition, has seen us drop a whopping 10 points from winning positions. You would think that a team that has lost 15 of 18 games would be just the tonic for us to get back to winning ways, but we have the only manger in football who can turn a 3-0 win into a 1-1 draw.
It's hard to be optimistic, the way we keep playing down to the level of the opposition. Lloris Aurier Dier Rodon Davies Reguilon Hojbjerg Bergwijn Ndombele Son Kane Alderweireld Bale Sanchez Lamela Hart Sissoko Moura Fernandes Vinicius Fernandes over Dele? I guess we've seen the last of Dele.
This can't continue for the rest of the season. You just can't have a player of his quality around the team if you are not going to play him. Bloody Mourinho...
Spurs win a corner after a nice one-two with Kane and Bergie, the Dutchman's shot is saved by Ramsdale, but from the resulting corner Aurier of all people heads home.
Big chance for Sonny! He is played in by Ndombele, but like against Fulham on Wednesday, he clips the post when he should have scored. We are simply not ruthless enough.
United are kicking Kane any chance they get. That's 2 now that should have been booked but weren't. Andre Marriner is the ref.
One of the problems we have is we don't have a proper play-maker in midfield. We win the ball back in the middle of the park and Hjobjerg has a ball down the middle to Son in the clear, but he doesn't play the pass.
Spurs come close when Son's cross is cleared straight in the air by Ampadu and Ramsdale swats it off the goal line with Kane lurking.
Hjobjerg wins the ball back in the United half, passes to Kane an the King does the rest, guiding the ball to the left of the hapless Ramsdale.
This time we didn't sit off after the first goal, but there is still work to do, United have been positive and have carried a threat.
Good start against the bottom club in the league. But this is Spurs, and if anyone can blow a lead against Sheffield, it's us.
To the surprise of no one, we sit back and concede from a cross, Dier and Davies with terrible marking in the middle.
The Frenchman with an outrageous goal, Bergie scoops the ball over the defense, and Ndombele flicks the ball with the outside of his right foot into the far corner. Magnifique!