Sheffield United are RELEGATED from the Premier League after successful simply THREE video games all season… as their woeful marketing campaign ends in a 5-1 whimper in opposition to rampant Newcastle

Sheffield United‘s return to the Premier League has lasted only one season after their relegation was confirmed on Saturday afternoon.

Needing a victory at Newcastle to maintain their faint hopes alive, the Blades had been blunted at St James’ Park as they had been overwhelmed 5-1. 

The Blades took the lead simply 5 minutes into the sport by way of Anel Ahmedhodzic, earlier than Alexander Isak levelled midway by way of the primary half.

The Blades’ slim hopes of survival had been extinguished within the second half as Bruno Guimaraes put Newcastle forward, earlier than Isak accomplished his brace by changing a penalty seven minutes later.

The guests conceded once more shortly afterward as Ben Osborn’s deflected one into his personal internet, earlier than Callum Wilson added a fifth solely minutes later.

Going into the sport, Chris Wilder’s facet had been 10 factors beneath the protection zone with 4 matches left and now they can’t mathematically overturn that.

The Bramall Lane outfit have 16 factors from 35 matches in what has been a season of battle.

Talking forward of Saturday’s conflict, Wilder stated: ‘Via good occasions, all of us get pleasure from it and we’re all prepared to take that credit score when it occurs.

‘And you must personal and endure and take duty for the occasions when there’s a little little bit of ache.

‘As a membership, there may be humility. Plenty of humble individuals. We have had a poor season, that is there for all to see.’

Wednesday evening’s 4-2 defeat at Manchester United meant they’ve conceded essentially the most targets ever in a 38-game Premier League season.

The Blades might nonetheless threaten the undesirable file set in 42 video games.

Again-to-back defeats conceding 4 targets, with the Previous Trafford sport approaching the again of a 4-1 loss to Burnley, is not the bottom ebb of a tough marketing campaign – which features a 5-0 defeat on the Clarets in December.

They’ve additionally misplaced 5-0 to Aston Villa, Brighton and Arsenal, with the Gunners moreover beating them 6-0 final month, whereas they had been most memorably thumped 8-0 by Newcastle in September.

They’re solely the third group in Premier League historical past to concede 5 targets or extra on six events in the identical season and are maintaining harmful firm in that class.

Derby’s 11-point season in 2007-08 lives on in Premier League historical past – their file low factors whole was accompanied by the worst ever objective distinction, -69, whereas the 89 targets they conceded was the file for a 38-game season till the Blades hit 92 with Wednesday evening’s loss. Derby misplaced 6-2 and 5-0 to Arsenal, 6-0 to Liverpool and Aston Villa, 5-0 to West Ham and 6-1 at Chelsea.

Wilder’s facet are solely targets away from being the second Premier League group to concede 100 in a season, after Swindon in 42 video games in 1993-94. The Robins misplaced 5-0 to Liverpool and Villa, 5-1 at Southampton, 6-2 at Everton and 7-1 at Newcastle. Ipswich conceded 93 in 42 video games in 1994-95.

United’s common of two.77 conceded per sport has them on target for a file 105. Their objective distinction, at a median of 1.8-. per sport, tasks to return in at -68, above Derby’s file at -66. 

At lower than half a point-per-game, they want no less than 4 from their remaining three video games to keep away from changing into the seventh group to complete with lower than 20. Sunderland managed simply 19 in 2002-03 and 15 in 2005-06, Portsmouth 19 in 2009-10, Villa 17 in 2015-16, Huddersfield 16 in 2018-19 and Derby the file 11.