Championship · Matchday 11 Match report

Bristol City 0-1 Sheffield United: Result, Match Stats and Our Prediction

Bristol City

0-1Full time

Sheffield United

Saturday 17 October 2026, 14:00 UTC Ashton Gate Stadium, Bristol

Our picks against the result

6 of 12 right

Result Bristol City win43% 0-1
Double chance Bristol City or Sheffield United (12)73% 0-1
Goals over/under 2.5 Under 2.554% 1 goal
More corners Bristol City63% Sheffield United (3-5)
Yellow cards Around average 0 yellow cards · league 3.0
Yellow cards 0 yellow cards 3.5 Under67% 4.5 Under83% 5.5 Under93%
Corners Around average 8 corners · league 10.5
Corners 8 corners 8.5 Over62% 9.5 Over51% 10.5 Under59%

Match stats

Bristol City Sheffield United

0 Goals 1
0 Yellow cards 0
0 Red cards 0
3 Corners 5

Goals, yellow and red cards and corners of each club.

Before kick-off

What this page showed before the match: our reasons, form, ratings and records as they were then.

Match summary

Bristol City vs Sheffield United meet at Ashton Gate on Saturday 17 October 2026, a Championship Matchday 11 fixture in which our model favours the home side, and for the double chance it sees either team winning without a draw.

Why this pick?

Our model leans towards a Bristol City win, and the strongest argument is playing at Ashton Gate, where home advantage carries more weight than anything on the other side. It is not a clean call: Sheffield United come out slightly ahead on our strength rating, which looks further back, and Bristol City sit below the Championship average there. What offsets it is recent form. Over their last five matches Bristol City have been shooting and getting into the box more than the division's norm, while Sheffield United's attacking output in the same spell has been clearly below average. The model still lands on the home side, though narrowly.

Form guide

Bristol City

L 0-1 vs Blackburn Rovers (H) Championship · 13 Oct
D 1-1 at Charlton Athletic (A) Championship · 10 Oct
W 1-0 vs Watford (H) Championship · 18 Sep
L 0-1 vs Lincoln City (H) Championship · 15 Sep
L 1-4 at Southampton (A) Championship · 12 Sep

Sheffield United

L 2-3 at Portsmouth (A) Championship · 14 Oct
W 3-0 vs Lincoln City (H) Championship · 10 Oct
L 1-2 at Stoke City (A) Championship · 19 Sep
L 0-1 at Fleetwood Town (A) EFL Cup · 16 Sep
L 0-1 vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (H) Championship · 13 Sep

Last five competitive matches before kick-off, all competitions, results after 90 minutes.

Attack and defence ratings

Bristol CitySheffield United

Attack 35 74 1.2 goals per match this season1.4 goals per match this season

Defence 43 52 1.4 conceded per match this season1.4 conceded per match this season

0 to 100 against this season's Championship clubs (100 = best). The rating is our model's long-run strength before this match: it uses the last three years and counts recent matches most, so a few results do not move it at once. Under each rating: this season's actual goals per match.