JOHN BRADLEY: It's 13 years since Liverpool were last at Bramall Lane
in the Premier League, and the old place hasn't changed too much since then,
a little facelift and a lick of paint here and there.
Joel Matip with a bit of a miscue.
And perhaps a chance to break.
Two on two here.
It's Oliver McBurnie.
And straight at Adrian.
GARY GILLESPIE: Liverpool dominating possession early on,
but it's United that get the first shot at goal.
Cuts inside on his right foot, inside Matip,
all credit to Adrian, who moves across with the play.
Straight down the pipe for the goalkeeper.
JOHN: That's Matip, lovely take by Gini Wijnaldum, on towards Salah.
Again the cover was good, there was enough red and white in there.
And it comes to Gini Wijnaldum.
It was a horrible miscue anyway.
GARY: It's a great ball by Matip, I think that really is the way to get the better of United,
if the two centre-backs can break the lines with their passes,
it certainly creates a far more attack-minded movement.
JOHN: That's Fleck, and here's Robinson!
That's perhaps a better chance than he made of it in the end,
the shot was well wide.
GARY: They've managed to split the two centre-backs quite well there,
it's an opportunity, the one thing you would say is he's not troubled the goalkeeper,
I think he has to make Adrian make a save.
But as I said before, Liverpool's defenders have got to keep high levels of concentration,
they can't go to sleep just because they have the majority of possession.
JOHN: Mane does now, lovely darting run.
Ball just kicked up, but here's Salah winning it back.
He just almost tried to almost cushion it and bend it round the goalkeeper.
Couldn't come round enough.
GARY: Well, probably Liverpool's best opportunities have come
when Mane's made that little diagonal run.
He finds himself in a central position, ball coming in from the right,
and eventually it's fallen to Salah.
How often do we see the ball nestling in the bottom corner
after Salah gets it with this left foot?
JOHN: Still 12 minutes to go till half-time,
but they haven't troubled Sheffield United or Dean Henderson as of yet.
Maybe they will now, it's a brilliant ball for Sadio Mane.
And him of all people at the moment,
you would have put everything on him scoring.
GARY: We talked about it earlier on, that has been Liverpool's best route into goal.
That little diagonal run in between the three centre-backs,
and, well, he won't want to look back on this too often.
JOHN: Beautifully created.
For once, not beautifully finished by Sadio Mane.
And Salah will spin, and get there.
Alexander-Arnold, touch, cross, towards Wijnaldum.
Egan with the header away, Andrew Robertson...
Not troubling the goal.
GARY: Well, he does have options,
he could have clipped it back in or just laid it to the outside,
I think it was Roberto Firmino that was outside him.
But I don't think you can have any complaints about him taking a pot at goal.
JOHN: Wijnaldum. Just finding a little bit of space, but...
..in that half a second when he found it, it was soon gone.
Here come Sheffield United down that left side again, it's been profitable for them so far.
Fleck's touch lets him down and Salah will set off on the break.
Wijnaldum is there, Salah's still got it, here's Firmino for Liverpool,
and now Mane!
Back to Roberto Firmino, and Sheffield United survive.
GARY: Well, how they've survived I'm not 100 per cent sure,
that should have been the goal Liverpool wanted just before the half-time interval.
Very unselfish from Firmino, and Mane, instead of going across the goalkeeper,
tries to squeeze it in on the narrow side,
and in doing so it cuts down his angle.
It's a gilt-edged chance for Liverpool to take the lead.
JOHN: Liverpool have gone to a 4-2-4,
with Mane on the right and Origi over on the left,
Salah through the middle.
Divock Origi has nicked it, his first involvement in the game...
Salah trying to clip it towards goal, got it all wrong.
And Mousset on the charge at the other end.
The defenders coming back to help, Alexander-Arnold dangled a leg out there.
Mousset didn't take the invitation.
Norwood.
It has to be helped away by Adrian.
GARY: It's an awkward one, it bounces right in front of him,
I think it might have been going wide,
but very tight, there's no way Adrian can take a chance.
As I say, the bounce in front, it's never an easy one for goalkeepers.
Safety is probably the best policy.
JOHN: Stevens.
And again, that's really well worked.
And Van Dijk doesn't come, and Fleck's in here!
And still John Fleck!
Robertson with the block, and then Van Dijk saves Liverpool again.
Well, no-one went to John Fleck, and eventually Robertson got there
and made what could be a telling block.
This is Baldock.
Good take by Adrian.
GARY: He probably just delays it a little too long, Fleck.
In saying that, he still gets the time and space to shoot at goal.
JOHN: Bit of pinball, eventually ends up where the ball wanted to end up,
with Wijnaldum. Salah.
Firmino for Robertson. Robertson for Origi.
Origi's cross. Comes to Gini Wijnaldum!
Oh, and the goalkeeper's lost it! He's spilled it into the back of his own net.
And for the second time in a matter of days, Liverpool profit from a huge goalkeeping error.
GARY: The one thing you can say about Gini Wijnaldum's shot -
it's decent, it's powerful enough, but it certainly shouldn't go through the goalkeeper.
He's caught totally unawares, as we saw midweek at MK Dons.
Liverpool get a real slice of luck, I'm trying to defend the goalkeeper Henderson here,
I don't know if there is any defence, the fact that it comes through a crowd of players,
but he'll look at that and think he should have done better.
I don't think it was even that difficult,
and it's a goalkeeping error that's given Liverpool a vital lead.
JOHN: The Manchester United loanee, who has had some high-profile errors
in his time at Sheffield United,
I remember one at Leeds,
but that is a horror moment for
a very bright and talented young goalkeeper.
Origi with a lovely flick, in goes Egan.
Origi towering above Basham.
And it breaks for Salah, and this could kill it.
That's an outstanding save.
Well, if he's culpable for Liverpool's goal, he's saved a goal there.
GARY: That'll do his confidence no end of good, it's one on one,
you want your goalkeeper to make it as difficult for the forward as possible,
that forward being Mohamed Salah.
And it doesn't matter how you save them,
in situations like this it's a case of stopping them going in the back of the net,
and he just about does enough, Henderson.
But that could really have sealed the game for Liverpool.
JOHN: Fleck. Oh, it's a lovely ball!
And Clarke put everything into it, but perhaps got too much on it.
GARY: How does he not score? I can't believe it.
A fantastic pass by John Fleck, you just think that with any kind of contact he's got to score.
I don't think the contact's with his boot, I think it comes off his shin,
hence the reason he's got absolutely no control of it whatsoever.
JOHN: Salah.
Wijnaldum.
Delayed the pas to Robertson,
and then gave him a pass that was a little behind him.
This is Divock Origi!
I thought that was made for a little bend into the far corner, and it probably was.
GARY: It was, I'm not sure he tries to sneak it in the near post, lovely bit of skill,
you can see the players work on that all the time, the little stepover.
JOHN: It was always going to be a tough, tough trip to Yorkshire for Liverpool.
But still their 100 per cent Premier League record is intact,
it was a horrible Henderson error that gave Liverpool the victory,
spilling Gini Wijnaldum's shot through his legs and into the net,
and in spite trying to come back, they just didn't quite have the firepower,
and Liverpool win again.