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Norwood masterminded a dominant Blades performance, sitting deep and prompting his team’s best work.

And he came up with an inspired goal on 31 minutes to reward his team’s superiority. John Fleck won a free kick with a driving run to the edge of th usatimes.cc e box and Norwood magnificently curled and dipped his shot over the defensive wall and beyond keeper Thomas Kaminski, rooted to the spot.

Norwood’s confidence was clearly coursing through his veins after that wonder strike as he fizzed another shot over the bar from 35 yards and even tried his luck from the second half re-start, hoping to catch Kaminski with the lowe usanews.cc ring sun in his eyes – the attempt drifted over.

McBurnie had seven chances, three of them one-on-ones with Kaminski, in which the keeper came out on top every time.

But the Blades were not to be denied and after Ndiaye’s unconventional rear-end finish, he came up with a solo stunner to make it three. Robbing Lewis Travis on halfway, he tricked his way past Harry Pickering, swerve news d past Daniel Ayala, and placed his shot in off the post.

For Rovers, just three days after their 100 per cent record was wrecked by the same scoreline at Reading, there was little joy.

They attempted a fightback early in the second half after manager Jon Dahl Tomasson abandoned his ploy of matching Sheffield’s three at the back, but Travis’ 30-yarder, which flashed past the post, was their only reasonable goal attempt.