MORAIS: THIS IS A TURNING POINT

sluggish Blades. John Fleck fired home the leveller before captain Leon Clarke lashed the Blades ahead only for Oli McBurnie to pounce when visiting keeper Simon Moore pushed out Adam Hammill’s bid to make it 2-2.

There was more to come, Kieffer Moore driving the ball across goal from the right where top scorer Bradshaw headed home his ninth of the season at the back post.

Head coach Morais believes it could be a pivotal moment.

“I want to see it that way, I want see it as a turning point as it is,” he said. “We didn’t win at home since long ago. This moment gave us the feeling that actually there is no reason why not to believe that at home we cannot win all the games.”

Barnsley were inches from an early lead when George Moncur smashed a shot against the bar with Moore rooted to his line.

They took a deserved lead through Gardner. Fleck levelled, before Clarke netted but McBurnie and Bradshaw had other ideas. Blades boss Possession 37% 63% Shots On Target 6 5 Shots Off Target 5 8 Blocked Shots 2 6 Corners 3 11 Fouls Conceded 10 7 Offsides 0 4 Yellow Cards 2 2 Red Cards 0 0 Chris Wilder bemoaned his side’s inability to finish off teams. He said: “One team wanted to stay in the division and one wanted to get out of it. I must say the team that wanted to stay in the division was better in the first half.

“Knowing what my team is about, we got into them a bit at half-time, made a couple of changes and then got into our stride, got into our rhythm, built pressure and momentum and took the game away from the opposition.

“From 2-1 we should go to 3-1 and 4-1 but yet again – boring everybody that interviews me after the game – is the clinical bit that kills teams off and demoralises them.”