'We were staring down the barrel of another defeat'
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Former Sheffield United forward Carl Asaba told the Blades Heaven podcast that Paul Heckingbottom's side only managed a point away at Brighton because of an unfortunate injury to Vinicius Souza which forced the manager to make tactical tweaks: "It’s a positive but if I’m going to be super critical, I want us to get the wins but I don’t want the wins to be coming from an enforced substitution. That’s what happened there.
"Vinny [Souza] was staying on, but because he got his injury the formation changed, the substitution was made and we went on and got the point. Unless Vinny came off, that was going to persist until they got a second or third.
"But we got a point, it’s another point, we’re keeping a bit of momentum going and hopefully now during the international break we can get some injuries back. Hopefully McBurnie will come back because he really will transform the attacking and the defending.
"The manager now will be getting a pat on the back for getting a point away from home but I felt unless we had that injury, we were staring down the barrel of another defeat because he wasn’t changing the problems we could see from the start."