The game of the weekend in the Championship could be the one that decides the fate of the highest ranking Yorkshire clubs in the Championship at present.

Neither Sheffield United nor Leeds can boast much in the way of top flight experience in the last fifteen years, with just one season between them at the top table.

This time out, one of them is almost certain to be in the top two, looking forward to trips to Old Trafford and Anfield.

Which of the two clubs goes up could be largely decided this weekend, as second plays third in a match that's not quite winner-takes-all, but almost.

 

The two met at Bramall Lane earlier in the season where a Pablo Hernandez goal separated the two sides.

His effort beat Dean Henderson, the stopper currently looking after the nets for the Blades. We look at his performance in that earlier encounter in our latest spotlight piece.

Unsurprisingly, Henderson played all 90 minutes of the encounter in December. It was an evenly matched affair, with his side have 12 shots at goal, Leeds managing 11.

Six of the Leeds efforts were on target, one went in. Henderson managed to save the other five, making him busier than opposite number Bailey Peacock-Farrell on that occasion. However, Peacock-Farrell kept a clean sheet and Henderson did not.

He was kept busy in other areas too, being forced to collect two crosses that came into the area. He also won one aerial duel with an attacker.

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United, who boast three centre halves, have been known to play out from the back and Henderson made an unusually high number of passes for a stopper, playing it out 42 times. Of those 42 passes, 57% went to a teammate.

The stats of a keeper can tell two stories, in this instance Henderson had a good game and made plenty of stops, but didn't come out with a clean sheet, nor all three points. He'll be hoping to turn that around when they visit Elland Road this weekend.