Sheffield United were the trickiest team we've come up against so far this season, which was quite surprising considering their faltering form in recent weeks. They completely overran our five-man midfield and caused our defence a huge amount of problems. Luke Chambers, who arguably had one of his best games in a Forest shirt on Saturday against Swansea, gave one of his worst performances as a centre back last night. He looked incredibly nervous as if he'd never played in that position before. I know Billy Davies is very fond of him, but I can definitely see Kelvin Wilson being recalled at Doncaster this weekend.
United took the lead just six minutes into the game thanks to a Richard Cresswell header which came as a result of an in-swinging free kick. That dented Forest's confidence somewhat as the Blades sliced their way through the midfield and came close several times to making their lead more comfortable. Forest were indebted to Lee Camp that the scoreline remained respectable at half time, and as Forest had at least looked threatening going forward there was good reason to be hopeful of a second half turnaround.
Forest continued to struggle to create clear-cut chances after the break as United remained resilient, out hustling the midfield which seemed a bit too overcrowded with three central players in there. Davies finally realised that his system was not working and brought on Dele Adebola for the remaining half hour to support Dexter Blackstock who had been really struggling as a lone striker. And less than ten minutes later the Reds found themselves back on level terms when captain Paul McKenna unleashed a fierce 25-yard shot into the back of the net. That goal really rejuvenated Forest and with the crowd behind them they suddenly looked the team more likely to go on to win the game. But their final ball was still deserting them despite the change in formation and they settled for just a point, which on reflection was a very fair result.
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