Chris Wilder on Rhian Brewster's Sheffield United role

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00:00You touched on Rhian there, a nice moment for Van Avera and the Kop for him, 2-2 now.

00:04In that No. 10 role, it's a good option there, isn't it? Is that perhaps what you see him as an option long term?

00:09Yes, he can play nine, but we feel that's his position.

00:16He's got to be smart. If teams are on the halfway line, he's got to be able to spin and run down the side.

00:21And if teams are deep, he finds pockets and he's an intelligent footballer.

00:25He's strong, he links the play and he's keeping some good players out.

00:28Callum was extremely unfortunate to be not starting. I've got Kiefer Moore.

00:34Tom Cannon absolutely banged the door down and other players right the way through.

00:39But we felt it was right for Rhian to start the game because of what he did and the level that he's stepped forward.

00:48I talked to Dan the other day about, don't underestimate the importance of that goal scoring a winner in a local derby.

00:57I'm not name-checking the other team, but I'm just saying that to score a big goal,

01:03the belief and the confidence that it can give him and the team.

01:06And we've certainly took it up another level from that win.

01:11You found Hamza eventually?

01:13We found Hamza, yes. I don't know who found him, but we ended up finding him.

01:18There was some effort, wasn't there, to play 18 minutes after the game?

01:20He's not trained. He's not done anything from a tactical point of view.

01:24It's all been done remotely. He landed late last night.

01:29He's coming this morning and we've given him a quick MOT and a rub down and we've chucked him out there.

01:36As I said, I've got two centre-halves.

01:39Gus will take the limelight, Rhian will take the limelight, the boys at the top of the pitch.

01:43Ty will take the limelight, but really two centre-halves were outstanding and Hamza just in front of them,

01:49breaking the game up and allowing us to play when we had the time and chance to dictate the tempo of the game.

01:57I thought he was outstanding at Illsborough a couple of weeks ago and his effort tonight was amazing.

02:04We have Vinny back on Monday, which is big for us.

02:07We've got Tom Davies coming back now, so we're in a good place.

02:10But I think the thing that he said at the start, we never get ahead of ourselves.

02:16We're a humble football club.

02:17We're a hard-working football club and we know there are some huge challenges ahead of us.

02:22There's a huge challenge ahead of us tonight and we've got over that hurdle against an incredibly consistent side.

02:27It's going to take a big effort now between now and the end of the season,

02:34but if we show what we've shown tonight and be consistent with our approach and our attitude,

02:40then we feel we can win some games of football.

02:45Cheers, Dan.