Blades keep their play-off dream alive
SHEFFIELD UNITED kept up their push for a play-off place as they beat BURTON ALBION 2-0 at Bramall Lane. Enda stevens’s first-half strike coupled with a goal from David Brooks means that the Blades now sit just two points off sixth place and a possible return to the Premier League. However, the result leaves Burton in a desperate position in their bid for survival. The staffordshire club have now won just one of their last 11 games and sit 23rd in the table with nine games to go. relegation-threatened HULL secured an emphatic 3-0 victory away at IPSWICH. Markus Henriksen, Harry Wilson and Jarrod Bowen all hit the net for the Tigers in a result that looks to have ended ipswich’s faint play-off hopes. The suffolk club, who are now nine points off the play-off spots, are almost confirmed to be spending their 17th consecutive season in England’s second tier.
BARNSLEY secured a vital point in their bid to avoid the drop in a hard-fought 1-1 draw at home to a mid-table NORWICH side last night. Oliver McBurnie scored on the stroke of half-time for Barnsley, before norwich winger Josh Murphy equalised in the second half. The draw takes Barnsley three points clear of the relegation places, despite the fact they have only won one of their last 11 league games. Three of their next four games are against opposition who are in the top 10 of the Championship, so they will be satisfied with their night’s work.