Fleetwood Town 2-2 Sheffield United: result and report

League One · Saturday 5 March 2016

Result

Fleetwood Town 2-2 Sheffield United

League One · Saturday 5 March 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Fleetwood Town 2-2 Sheffield United: match report

Fleetwood Town drew with Sheffield United 2-2 in the League One on Saturday 5 March 2016. The half-time score was 1-1.

Fleetwood Town's goals came from Ashley Hunter (31') and Marcus Nilsson (60'). Sheffield United scored through an own goal by Marcus Nilsson (29') and Ché Adams (90+3', penalty).

Discipline: Fleetwood Town received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Sheffield United received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Fleetwood Town were 17th on 39 points from 33 and Sheffield United 8th on 50 points from 34. Fleetwood Town went on to finish that season 19th with 52 points, and Sheffield United 11th with 68.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Fleetwood Town wins, 0 draws and 1 for Sheffield United.

Going into the match Fleetwood Town's last five read W-W-L-W-D and Sheffield United's L-L-W-L-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 29'Own goal · Marcus NilssonSheffield United · 0-1
  • 31'Goal · Ashley HunterFleetwood Town · 1-1
  • 60'Yellow card · Dean HammondSheffield United
  • 60'Goal · Marcus NilssonFleetwood Town · 2-1
  • 74'Yellow card · N. HaughtonFleetwood Town
  • 88'Second yellow · N. HaughtonFleetwood Town
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Amari'i BellFleetwood Town
  • 90+3'Penalty goal · Ché AdamsSheffield United · 2-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Fleetwood Town 0, draws 0, Sheffield United 1.

Team news

Fleetwood Town line-up

Chris Maxwell, Victor Nirennold, Marcus Nilsson, Joe Davis, Eggert Gunnthor Jonsson, Amari'i Bell, Jimmy Ryan, Wes Burns, Shola Ameobi, Ashley Hunter, David Ball

Sheffield United line-up

George Long, John Brayford, Chris Basham, Alex Baptiste, David Edgar, Ryan Flynn, Florent Cuvelier, Dean Hammond, Matt Done, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Ché Adams