'We can't start feeling sorry for ourselves' - Wilder
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Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder says they cannot allow morale to drop too low after missing out on automatic promotion to the Premier League.
Monday's 2-1 defeat at Burnley means the Blades will finish third in the Championship regardless of what happens in their final two regular season games and will go into the play-offs.
"We can't start feeling sorry for ourselves, I don't think people expect me to and the coaches and players," Wilder told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"We've got to raise ourselves, dust ourselves down and go again. We haven't disgraced ourselves, we haven't let ourselves down.
"Hopefully the majority of the supporters will see that and back us in the play-off games and if we get the better of four 45-minute halves, we have a trip to Wembley."
The Blades have notoriously struggled in the play-offs, failing to ever go up in eight previous attempts via that route in the EFL - five times in the Championship and three in League One.
But Wilder says he "doesn't subscribe to the play-off nonsense" or believe their poor record will have any impact.
"They will win play-off games and they will win a play-off final," he said.
"We've got to deal with the play-offs. We'll end up being 20-odd points clear of those teams that get in the play-offs, but we all know what the play-offs are like.
"The slate gets wiped clean and we have to go and prove ourselves but there's enough about us in that changing room to go and do that."
United have suffered four defeats in their past five games and Wilder has blamed the run of three losses at the start of April for missing out on a top two finish.
"The season didn't end here [at Burnley], it ended when we didn't put the form at Oxford to bed. You can't go and get beaten at Plymouth. Those are the games that have cost us."
