What a thrill-a-minute goal-fest this meeting between Sheffield United and Brighton proved. Top billing was shared by João Pedro, whose hat-trick featured two penalties and took his team into Sunday’s fifth-round draw, and the bustling handful named Will Osula, scorer of the Blades’ second and creator of Gustavo Hamer’s first.
Jayden Bogle, too, had a lead part but in conceding both of the spot-kicks not for a reason he would wish. And while the Blades are eliminated, it is evident that, since replacing Paul Heckingbottom on 5 December, Chris Wilder has transformed them into a spirited proposition able to come back from 2-0 to 2-2 and remain in the tie even after João Pedro’s third (the visitors’ fourth). Danny Welbeck’s added-time strike, though, killed them off.
