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Lethal blades are a cut above

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The LeaguePaper Team
21 August 2022

Ndiaye double fires United to top

By Jon Couch

SHARP SHOOTER: Sheffield United’s lliman Ndiaye celebrates making it 3-0 to the Blades

PICTURE: Alamy

Sheffield United put the Championship on notice they mean business with a three-goal demolition of Blackburn Rovers.

Goals from Oliver Norwood and Iliman Ndiaye’s double saw Paul Heckingbottom’s side knock Rovers off top spot and climb to the summit themselves.

Heckingbottom said: “It’s too early to talk about who the best team in the league is, or anything like that. What I would say is that we’d give any team a game with a performance like that.”

Elswhere, West Brom thumped Hull City 5-2.

BOING, BOING: West Brom win

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