Sheffield United’s ‘attitude and desire’ in win at Blackburn cheers Chris Wilder

Chris Wilder was pleased with the ‘attitude’ and ‘desire’ after Sheffield United fought back to beat Blackburn 3-1 and leapfrog them in the Sky Bet Championship table.

Both sides struggled in the first half but Rovers edged ahead just before the break when Yuki Ohashi scored his first home goal of the season.

However, the Blades roared back with three unanswered goals. They equalised through Axel Henriksson’s own goal, before substitute Harrison Burrows calmly stroked home the second. He then set up a third for fellow sub Tyrese Campbell in stoppage time.

Wilder was pleased with the Blades’ desire to fight back and win, saying: “It was important that we moved on from Saturday.

“Come away from home and you have to churn out a performance/result. I didn’t think there was a lot in the game first half. We were disappointed to come in down.

“I thought we had good positions that we got into but (were) a bit loose with the final bit.

“But it’s always a good one to win when you’re 1-0 down. (We) talked about that, the feeling if we turned it around.

“(It’s) really positive, (we) got back into the game and went on to win it. We did a lot of things right (in the) second half.

“We had to get ourselves out of not a great position and we did that. I thought the goals were really good.

“We ticked a lot of boxes but the biggest box we needed to tick tonight was to show that consistency in our attitude and desire to win a game of football.”

Blackburn’s position already looks perilous. They have picked up a solitary point in home games and boss Valerien Ismael said the situation is ‘dangerous’.

He explained: “I’m concerned about the result, not about the performance.

“The only thing that concerned me was we need too many chances. I don’t know how many chances we need to score more goals. Especially in the first half, three or four situations where we need to be better. A 3v1 with Yuki, then Axel with the decision making.

“We score the goal finally then (in the) second half, front foot, (a) big chance again.

“Then all of a sudden, from nothing, Sheffield (are) back in the game and you saw straight away that for us the confidence for us at the minute is very difficult.

“The first goal makes everything a little bit in doubt. It’s same as last week, I cannot understand why you lose that game.

“Do a lot, put a lot of energy into the game, front foot, and in the end you lose the game again. (It’s a) dangerous situation now because it touches the confidence.”