CRAZY IN GLOVE

Henderson’s heroics keeps Blades in Euro hunt

concentration levels have been great and when’s he had to make a couple of saves late on, he produced.

“That is the importance of a really good goalkeeper.”

That triple save won the Blades the game and kept them firmly in the mix for a Champions League place.

Only Burnley’s Nick Pope, with 11, has kept more than Henderson’s 10 clean sheets in the league this season.

The 22-year-old wants to become No.1 at Old Trafford next term, but may become England’s main man for the Euros first.

He is in prime form, while current first choice Jordan Pickford has been iffy for Everton, and looks sure to be given a chance for this month’s friendlies with Italy and Denmark.

“It’s for others to decide if he’s ready for England,” says Wilder. “But he’s doing the absolute maximum he can to be the best he possibly can. His performances for us over the last season and a half have been fantastic.

“He’s made a few mistakes along the way but he’s matured and his concentration levels are fabulous. He has a huge desire to take his game to the very top.

“He’s a young goalkeeper with an enormous amount of learning and getting better in front of him, but he’s doing OK at the minute.”

As the Blades march on, Norwich continue to prop up the Premier League. They are six points from safety with nine games left and need top scorer Teemu Pukki to rediscover his early-season form. He hit a post at 0-0 and has just two goals from his last 11 games.

Boss Daniel Farke said: “Sometimes you have a period where you only have to look at the ball and it goes in. He can try to produce a piece of magic, but I was a striker and sometimes you need a dirty goal – it could deflecting one in. But you have to keep getting in the positions and I always encourage him to keep going.”