Sheffield United vs Wolves Premier League Match Preview or Key Statistics 👁🗨
👁🗨Sheffield United have lost only two of their last 13 home games against Wolves in league competition (W7 D4 L2), winning each of the last two, including this exact fixture in the Premier League in 2019-20.
👁🗨Wolves are looking to avoid losing consecutive league games against Sheffield United for the first time since September 1996, losing 1-2 in both matches on that occasion.
👁🗨Sheffield United are yet to lose on the opening day of a Premier League season, winning two and drawing two.
👁🗨Wolves are unbeaten in their opening league match in each of the last seven seasons (w3 D4), last losing on MD1 against Leeds United in 2012-13.
👁🗨Sheffield United lost their final three league matches of last season. They last lost four games in a row back in September 2013 when they were in League One, losing six in a row with their final game in that run a 0-2 defeat to Wolves.
👁🗨Wolves have lost 12 of their last 15 top-flight matches in Yorkshire (W2 D1), last winning there back in March 1981 against Leeds United.
👁🗨Last season, British players played 26,009 minutes in the Premier League for Sheffield United, the second-most behind Burnley (28,919); Wolves gave the fewest minutes to British players in 2019-20 (4,336) and didn't have a single goalscorer from Britain.
👁🗨Last season, Sheffield United recorded just 114 shots on target, fewer than any other Premier League side. It's the fewest shots on target in a season for a side finishing in the top half of the table since 1997-98 (when we have this stat available).
👁🗨Wolves striker Raúl Jiménez scored 27 goals in all competitions last season, the third-most of any Premier League player after Raheem Sterling (31) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (29); however, he failed to score in both appearances against Sheffield United, managing just one shot on target across 180 minutes.
👁🗨Chris Wilder has won 99 of his 195 games as Sheffield United manager in all competitions. Victory here would see him become the first Blades manager to reach 100 victories in fewer than 200 games.
COMMENTS