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The race in the Premier League took another turn: a referee was at the center of a key incident almost too bizarre to explain in a crucial relegation clash and a team scored virtually every attack for about 10 minutes.
The theme of Saturday's EFL action was the goals – keep them on the outside, do not score them, break a record, go crazy and score a rather crazy goal.
Here are some of the things you may have missed.
Sheffield United – clean kings
Sheffield United have three points in winning Leeds 1-0, beating their opponent and finishing second in the championship.
They did it with the help of a seventh consecutive white sheet. What is perhaps even more impressive is that this sequence was triggered by the tragic end of their trip to Aston Villa on February 8th.
That night, Chris Wilder's men were 3-0 after 82 minutes, but shot 3-3.
Since then, they have played football for 10 1/2 hours and conceded no goal. It's a hell of a lot of time – you can fly to India or the Bahamas while having one free hour to play.
Just a few ideas out there, if you fancy a getaway during the international break.
Stoke just can not score
Sheffield United would be Stoke City's worst nightmare. The potter's matches have become a bit like garlic for vampires in terms of goals scored, after a third consecutive stalemate in the championship.
Their last shutout matched Reading, after touching the wood twice in the space of a few minutes in the first 45 minutes.
No team in the top four divisions has suffered a goaller draw than the seven Potters, and their total of 37 goals is the lowest of the second.
What makes the whole thing more mystifying (and frustrating) is that they spent a lot on the attackers – Benik Afobe (£ 12m) and Sam Vokes – to add to an attack that already included Bojan, James McClean and Tom Ince.
Over the three years in Luton Town, Nathan Jones turned the Hatters into a real goalscorer – they scored 94 goals in 46 promotional games in the final quarter – and he scored a 51% win rate.
However, despite the defensive tightening and the rapid arrest of seven defeats, the goals remain the sticking point.
"It's hard to understand why we are not scoring," he told BBC Radio Stoke. "We do not play defensive football, it would be so different if we could literally try our luck."
"We are working a lot more on our attacking game, and we have wonderful attacking players, so I'm going to ask them a little bit more now."
"We have Tom Ince, James McClean, Sam Vokes, Thibaud Verlinden, Bojan Krkic and Mame Biram Diouf, we have enough attacking players, and realistically, we can not pick any attacking players anymore."
Bowen Record Record
When Jarrod Bowen made his Ligue 1 debut in Tottenham's 7-1 home defeat by Tottenham on the final day of the Premier League season in May 2017, he probably did not see breaking records club in less than two years.
He had scored only one goal in professional football at that time, and that was for Hereford in the National League.
His two goals against QPR on Saturday meant that it was the eighth consecutive home game he had scored, beating the club record set by Bill Bradbury in the 1958-1959 campaign.
And there was a Tigers fan there to witness Bowen's feat who also watched the previous record holder in action – and a whole bunch of other forwards before him.
Albert Cavill has been following Hull City since 1936. He turned 90 this week and, to emphasize his unwavering support, he was on the training ground and was a guest of honor against QPR.
Crazy goal Crewe
When you are late on a goal at home, the fans can quickly become disgruntled and the pressure can then intensify.
When Crewe conceded against Crawley, this pressure lasted for about 20 minutes, before actually exploding.
Jordan Bowery unleashed an 11-minute spell on one side or the other of the half, during which Alex scored FIVE goals.
Not that Crewe boss David Artell was caught in the hype.
"If we were a recipe, we would preheat the oven for the first 25 minutes," Artell told BBC Radio Stoke.
"We were slow," I told them at half-time, "four goals in seven minutes masked substandard performance." Goals change the game.
"They had seven sticky minutes and we took advantage of it, it does not surprise me that we were beating somebody by [scoring] six."
Crewe won 6-1 in the end, by the way.
Choose the bones of this
There is the drama and then there is this – five minutes of total confusion as to whether an Oxford goal in stoppage time would be maintained or whether it is excluded to award a penalty to Bradford.
Here is our best understanding of the situation:
- 90 + 3 minutes – Bradford calls for a penalty but Liam O 'Brien falls under a six-meter challenge as he rushes away.
- 90 + 4 minutes – Oxford takes a quick goal kick and goes down the other side to score thanks to Jamie Mackie.
- 90 + 5 minutes – After consulting his badistant, referee Andy Davies decides to score and will return to Bradford for that he will punish.
- 90 + 8 minutes – A few minutes later, Davies changes his mind and finally badigns the goal to Oxford.
The result means Bradford stays at the bottom of Ligue 1, seven points behind Oxford, who will come out of the dropping zone as a result of the decision.
Needless to say, Bantam boss Gary Bowyer was not thrilled.
"I've never seen anything like it – not just as a footballer, but in my life – I'm not funny, but I still do not understand what happened."
His correspondent, Karl Robinson, sympathized: "If I were Gary, I would be devastated – I do not know what happened.
"We must talk to you [the media] within 30 minutes, but we can not talk to the referee for 30 minutes. How stupid is it? "
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