Chris Wilder's verdict on the impact of Sheffield United youngsters Andre Brooks and Will Osula after they were given chances to impress against Liverpool and Brentford recently
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00 If I could just ask about Will and Andre as well, what was the decision behind them?
00:04 I thought they had a really fearless performance from them, wasn't it?
00:07 Well, that's what we have to.
00:08 That's a great word to use because that's what we've talked to the players and
00:12 especially the young guys.
00:13 And we talked before about young players sometimes not feeling what's going around you,
00:18 whereas experienced players sometimes have felt that.
00:21 That was no disrespect to the experienced players that we left out, but we wanted that.
00:26 For me, Brookesy's watched them for a long time and Will as well,
00:30 and I thought they were outstanding.
00:32 We talk about the work the academy does and the two of them.
00:36 To go toe-to-toe with the players at Liverpool,
00:39 I've got Will going toe-to-toe with Kenaughty and Van Dijk is good.
00:44 He just ran out of gas.
00:46 Brookesy ran out of gas and then late on, if you want to know regarding the tactical changes,
00:51 we went two up front for the last 15, 10, 15 minutes.
00:55 We brought Oli on because Vinny was done and Oli's got that one ball,
01:00 that one searching ball that possibly can end up in a finish.
01:05 So that was the game plan, but like I said, Brookesy was fabulous and so was Will.