Chris Wilder on crucial VAR decision in Sheffield United's Sunderland loss

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00:00Of course, you know, the game of football, you know, we started off really well on the

00:07front foot, found our moment with Ty. You know, there'll obviously be a lot of talk

00:14about the VAR. I think, you know, I'm being consistent in terms of what Regis said as

00:21well. We played 46 games, two playoff games and then all of a sudden, it's a subjective

00:27decision by the referee. I've got to say, I don't think the goalkeeper saves it. I don't

00:31mean it gets anywhere near it. It means it's gone past him. But listen, that's by the by.

00:39Although it gave them a lifeline and some real energy, but without really hurting us, goalkeeper

00:48has really had to save to make and we started getting back in control of the game 10 minutes

00:53into the second half. We've had a couple of chances. Disappointed in terms of when a team

01:01has to open up and go for it, which they do, and we'd have been the same. I think we talked

01:05about it. They leave opportunities for you to go and punish them. And we were too loose

01:09in transition. We were too loose on the counter-attack. We gave up some really good, clean opportunities

01:17to go and punish them. And if we get the second, then I think we win the game. It's not seeing

01:24the game out, but you keep a decent shape. And as I said, I thought they, it was, I never

01:29felt on the sidelines sort of worried and we needed to do something. Two goals from our

01:35point of view are really poor. They found the finishes, but before that, the first goal, a

01:41couple of decisions that we made. And the second goal, you know, you look at it, we secure the

01:48ball at the top of the pitch. We don't, the middle of the park is wide open and it's amazing

01:56what the stories sort of bring up. A local lad who's on his way to Brighton, counters and

02:03finds a, finds a fabulous position and a finish. And then the game's, game's gone past us. It's

02:1197, 98 minutes. So fairytale stuff for the boy and Sunderland and from us, as I said, it's going

02:18to take quite a while to get over.