Sheffield Utd boss Wilder: Players' efforts deserved Chelsea draw

Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder insisted that his team deserved a draw against Chelsea.

The Blades managed to net an equaliser in the last moments to draw 2-2 in the Premier League on Sunday.

Even though Wilder acknowledged that his team need more to avoid relegation, he was pleased to see his players' efforts rewarded.

He stated post-game: "I think everybody in the ground would have been incredibly disappointed if we'd not got a result.

"I didn't like the first 15 minutes of the performance. We looked leggy, it looked like that third game in a week after the effort physically and emotionally we put in to run Liverpool deep, which we did on Thursday.

It looked as if we were a little bit one-paced and passive but we got ourselves going and I thought the midfield three, especially Blaster (Oliver Arblaster) got us passing positively and moving it forward.

"I'm disappointed with their first goal. It was a little bit of a block but i's something we have to do a lot better with because it's an opportunity for them to score. But the reaction off the back of that was good. I'm delighted with the last 75, 80 minutes of the performance.

"We were calm and composed and the only time I can be supercritical is their second goal where Gus [Hamer] takes two touches when it comes out. The press was good second half and especially after 15, 20 mins we pressed a bit tighter.

From there Gus really should take two touches but I can't be too critical of that because the mentality of the team was to go and win the game. Unfortunately off the back of that they scored from a counter-attack."