DAVID IS ALL GOLD
ANOTHER week, another hard-fought victory for Sheffield united and another late David McGoldrick winner. If anyone thought the Blades would be the Championship’s surprise package, they surely wouldn’t have identified the 30-year-old striker as the catalyst. Signed on a free in the summer from Ipswich, McGoldrick followed last week’s 87th-minute winner against Preston with two in the last 11 at the Den to leave Millwall second bottom. he now has four in 10 and united are a point behind leaders West Brom. McGoldrick, manager Chris Wilder believes, is helping his team become more than the sum of their parts. ‘We’ve got to look hard to get our players,’ Wilder said. ‘We have to look for little nuggets and free transfers. David has done great — a great character.’ united have belief in their remarkable resilience. Saturday’s game is the third where they have won it in the last five minutes. Captain Billy Sharp headed united into a half-time lead but he should have put them out of sight by the interval. he had a penalty saved, skewed over from six yards from the following corner and missed a one-on-one. Millwall then scored twice in three ferocious second-half minutes, Jake Cooper with a towering header before Ryan Leonard — on loan from united but cleared to face his parent side — set Lee Gregory clear to beat england under 21 goalkeeper Dean henderson. The Den was rocking. Millwall, chasing their first win since august 18, smelt blood. But united kept passing and creating, their tempo increasing as Millwall’s nerves frayed. When Shaun Williams felled Mark Duffy in the area — the second penalty he conceded — McGoldrick was asked to take it and sent Ben amos the wrong way. With two minutes to go, Duffy swapped passes with Kieron Freeman before sliding the ball across the six-yard box where McGoldrick pounced.