Wilder's verdict on Blades' Man City defeat

Chris Wilder's verdict on Sheffield United's defeat at Manchester City

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00:00 How do you feel about the first time you've played against Chelsea?

00:04 It felt like we played football for about five hours there.

00:07 I think the start, when you're walking out and you see five trophies,

00:13 it's home to you, who you're playing against and what they've achieved.

00:17 First of all, congratulations from myself and everybody at Chef United

00:22 for the achievements that this football club, under the leadership of the best manager,

00:27 and one of the greats, has done.

00:30 Then it's game on and you realise how difficult it is, obviously, from our point of view.

00:35 We were light in terms of Premier League experience

00:39 and a few of the boys that were missing as well.

00:42 But what we weren't light was a fight of character,

00:45 and that's delighted me since I've walked through the door.

00:49 The players have shown that they want to learn.

00:52 We have to have a structure, we have to have an approach.

00:58 It's incredibly difficult, even for the top teams to come here,

01:03 and not being defeaters for a team that's obviously having a little bit of a struggle

01:10 and is not as strong from a selection point of view to come here.

01:14 We have to hang on in there, we have to ride out moments,

01:18 we have to take big moments.

01:20 Unfortunately we didn't, we had a couple of those just back end of the first half.

01:24 We still understand that it was going to be a difficult second half,

01:28 but they stuck at it.

01:30 Great experience for the younger players,

01:34 great experience for the likes of Trusty and Vinny Souza,

01:39 who have not played at this level and not played at this arena before.

01:43 Hopefully to learn and get better in the second part of the season.

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