Darius Henderson accepted two responsibilities at Barnsley on Monday night and came up trumps on both counts.

With the team shorn of experience and natural leaders he wore the captain's armband and helped stopped the rot of losing results, as well as keeping a cool head to convert two penalties - his first for the Blades.

He comprehensively beat Luke Steele from the spot after fouls on Ched Evans and Kyle Walker in the second-half and afterwards acknowledged that the players know that things must improve:

"Obviously our form hasn't been great and we are fully aware that we have got to start winning games.

"Barnsley is a good please to come and get a point even though we did it without testing their goalkeeper too much."

Chances were few and far between but the big target-man put his penalties away with confidence despite his team being behind on both occasions:

"I felt I should have scored in the first-half but I am confident in my ability and was glad to tuck away the penalties in the second period."