Sheffield United showed there is fight left in them yet after battling with 10 men for more than half an hour to win 1-0 against Aston Villa. Former Ireland striker David McGoldrick's first-half goal put the bottom-of-the-table Blades in front but they faced an uphill task to hang on to that lead when Phil Jagielka was sent off early in the second half. Watkins wanted a penalty shortly afterwards when he went down under pressure from Kean Bryan and Phil Jagielka. Watkins crashed a header off the crossbar before the hosts were reduced to 10 men after 55 minutes after Phil Jagielka brought down El Ghazi. Read MoreVilla had around half an hour to rescue something against 10 men and they laid siege to the Blades goal.

Source: Irish Independent March 03, 2021 20:15 UTC