Sheffield Utd vs 10.10.26 14:003 – 0Full Time
Lincoln — Championship: stats, lineups & analysis
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- 26′Lincoln, yellow card:Foul
- 39′Sheffield Utd, yellow card:Foul
- 43′Sheffield Utd, goal:1–0assist
- Half-time1 – 0
- 52′Sheffield Utd, goal:2–0assist
- 62′Lincoln, substitution:off
- 62′Lincoln, substitution:off
- 62′Lincoln, substitution:off
- 67′Lincoln, yellow card:Argument
- 67′Sheffield Utd, yellow card:Argument
- 73′Sheffield Utd, substitution:off
- 75′Sheffield Utd, yellow card:Simulation
- 76′Lincoln, yellow card:Foul
- 77′Sheffield Utd, goal:3–0assist
- 78′Sheffield Utd, substitution:off
- 78′Lincoln, substitution:off
- 79′Lincoln, substitution:off
- 84′Sheffield Utd, substitution:off
- 85′Sheffield Utd, substitution:off
- 85′Sheffield Utd, substitution:off
- Full-time3 – 0
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Match report
Bamford double fires Sheffield Utd past Lincoln
Sheffield Utd beat Lincoln 3-0 at Bramall Lane in a Championship Matchday 9 fixture, ending a run of four defeats in their previous five league matches. Chris Wilder's side led 1-0 at half-time and added two further goals after the break to settle the contest.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
The opening goal arrived two minutes before the interval, when Patrick Bamford finished from Sam McCallum's assist in the 43rd minute. Seven minutes after the restart Tahith Chong doubled the advantage, with Joseph Rothwell providing the pass. Lincoln, managed by Tom Shaw, found no way back.
Bamford completed the scoring in the 77th minute, converting a delivery from Benjamin Brereton for his second of the afternoon. Referee Josh Smith issued four yellow cards to the hosts and three to Lincoln, with no sendings-off, and the win lifted Sheffield Utd to 12 points from nine games, two places above where their opponents sat at 11 points.
Patrick Bamford scored twice, in the 43rd and 77th minutes, and earned a rating of 9.08, the highest of any player in the match.
Lincoln had more efforts at goal, with 12 shots to Sheffield Utd's 10, yet only three of them were on target against five for the hosts.
Sheffield Utd beat Lincoln 3–0 (half-time 1–0).
Sheffield Utd met Lincoln in the Championship (Regular Season - 9). Kick-off was Saturday, 10 October 2026, 14:00 UTC at Bramall Lane. Referee: Josh Smith.
Team pages: Sheffield Utd · Lincoln · Championship
Key moments
- 43' Goal: Patrick Bamford (assist: Sam McCallum) — 1–0
- 52' Goal: Tahith Chong (assist: Joe Rothwell) — 2–0 · Watch Tahith Chong's goal video (52')
- 77' Goal: Patrick Bamford (assist: Benjamin Brereton) — 3–0
Starting line-ups
Sheffield Utd (4-2-3-1)
Lincoln (3-4-2-1)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Sheffield Utd 29%, the draw 29%, Lincoln 42%. It finished Sheffield Utd 3–0 Lincoln.
Lincoln's rating edge, but the draw is in play — Lincoln are the stronger side on our strength rating, and their cold finishing due to recover plus a weak Championship home advantage on top give Lincoln the lean. The draw at 29% is helped by a draw-heavy league.
Why Lincoln at 42%?
Lincoln sit 136 points higher on our strength rating — 1414 to 1550. Sides with a 80–160-point rating edge on the road won 39.9% of 13,810 such games. Lincoln sit -0.45 goals per game below chance-quality — cold streaks like this have bounced back. Finishing swings carry a receipt at this rating gap too: sides finishing this cold won 38.7% of 2,497 such games where the class table expected 35.9%. Championship home sides under-perform the global norm — and the difference mostly flows to draws (27.0% vs 25.4% norm). Championship homes won 43.0% of 8,451 games vs 44.6% across all 101,016 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly. The 300 most similar past games finished 33–30–37.
Why only 42%?
No scored evidence points the other way. 42% is what this rating gap has been worth in games like these; the rest is the draw at 29% and Sheffield Utd at 29%.
Why is the draw second, level with the Sheffield Utd win?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 27.7%. These teams' recent games average 2.4 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 26.5% of 28,284. Championship runs draw-heavy, adding 1.6 points. The goals environment adds 1.3 points to the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Lincoln are newly promoted — game 9 of their first ten at this level, where our rating knows them least. Promoted sides are said to struggle, but our rating already carries most of it: across 3,012 first-ten games since 2016 they won 26.8% where the rating expected 28.1% — inside the noise band, below it in six of the ten full seasons we hold and about level last season. Doubtful: Oluwafemi Seriki, an important player. This does not change our forecast yet: we are still measuring how much missing players like these cost a team.
Sirius probabilities, frozen at kick-off. Analysis, not betting advice. How Sirius is doing this season · Full breakdown, evidence cards and squad news in the Match Insights tab
About this match
On this page: the Sheffield Utd vs Lincoln final score and result, goal highlights and video clips of every goal, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this Championship fixture.
- Who scored and when — a goal-by-goal timeline of the match.
- Match stats — possession, shots, expected goals (xG), corners and cards.
- Starting lineups and player ratings for both teams.
- Head-to-head record and recent form for both sides.
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