Wilder's verdict on Brighton defeat and Holgate's red

Chris Wilder's verdict on Sheffield United's defeat to Brighton and Mason Holgate's red card

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00:00 It's going to be difficult with 11 men but I imagine with 10 it makes it a million times more difficult doesn't it?

00:06 Better managers than me, quite a lot of them around at the moment I should imagine.

00:14 Bigger, better clubs than Sheffield United would have found it difficult.

00:18 I think if they were playing one of the top sides, you play as your Man City, your Liverpool, your Arsenal.

00:26 I think they would have, when you go down to 10 because of the way they play.

00:30 So I've got a lot of admiration for the way they play and what they do.

00:35 It's a real difficult task to try to come up with something.

00:40 It's difficult when you lose players like we have done in the week, like we have done over the last couple of weeks.

00:44 It's really difficult then.

00:46 For us to have to be at our best tactically we have to get it absolutely spot on.

00:50 Timing, timing is a press. Selection wise, competition for places and your best players being available.

01:02 You have to have all those things going for you.

01:04 So all those things have not gone for us.

01:08 I'm torn between this because I'm a competitor, I understand that.

01:18 It was a very, very strong challenge and the game has moved on.

01:25 Some people won't want the game to move on, will expect physical contact, excessive force or whatever you call it.

01:33 Winning the ball and challenging in that way is deemed not acceptable.

01:43 So we have no excuses, no where to hide.

01:48 The referee gave a yellow card straight away.

01:50 So he thought it wasn't straight away but when he went over to the monitor it got slowed down.

01:57 Which never makes it good viewing.

02:01 Which is always something I'm not sure they should do because there are loads of other challenges.

02:08 Not that there are a lot of those challenges today Dan but it gets slowed down, gets looked at the monitor.

02:14 Somebody in his ear at Stockley Park saying potentially that's a red card.

02:21 So after 12 and a half minutes against one of the outstanding, well it's not for a fight.

02:26 They pass the ball more in the Premier League than any other team.

02:31 And they keep possession, the second most possession based team in the division.

02:38 They're going to do that to better teams than us with 11 on.

02:42 They're certainly going to find it a little bit more easier to do that with 10.