Carling Cup First Round
Wednesday 11th August 2010, 7:45pm
All the big match reaction:
Match highlights (7m00s), on BladesPlayer
Match report
Blackwell reaction
Match gallery
Yellow: Leon McSweeney (85m) unsporting behaviour
Sub: Kyle Bartley on (82m) for Richard Cresswell
Yellow: Jamie Ward (81m) unsporting behaviour
Yellow: Jon Andre Fredriksen (78m) unsporting behaviour
Sub: Denis Behan on (74m) for Adam Boyd
Sub: Stephen Quinn on (73m) for Mark Yeates
Sub: Jon Andre Fredriksen on (71m) for Paul Murray
Sub: Jamie Ward on (66m) for Kingsley James
Goal: Adam Boyd (62m) penalty
Goal: James Brown (6m)
Sub: Leon McSweeney on (53m) for James Broan
Confirmed Teams
Youngsters Kingsley James and Jordan Chapell are given their first competitive starts as the Blades face Hartlepool United in the Carling Cup, first round.
Mark Yeates and Rob Kozluk also start with Matt Lowton suspended and Mihkel Aksalu, Ched Evans and Daniel Bogdanovic on international duty.
Amongst the substitutes is Academy product Phil Roe as well as first team coach Gary Speed and goalkeeper coach Paul Crichton, who make the bench up to six
Hartlepool include former Blade Evan Horwood.
Hartlepool: Flinders, Haslam, Liddle, Collins, Horwood, Sweeney, Gamble, Murray. Brown, Boyd, Monkhouse.
Subs: Rafferty, McSweeney, Larkin, Fredriksen, Bjornsson, Behan, Hartley.
Blades: Simonsen, Montgomery, Morgan, Ertl, Britton, Yeates, Taylor, Cresswell, Kozluk, James, Chapell.
Subs: Ward, Bartley, Quinn, Roe, Crichton, Speed.
All the big match build up:
Blackie's preview, on BladesPlayer
Team news
We expect a test
Gaffer's preview
Hartlepool United - four in focus
Skipper's Cup preview, on BladesPlayer
