"If we say yes, we find ourselves in a final."
Chris Wilder has leant heavily on the freshness provided by some youngsters so far in his second spell as Sheffield United manager but he has called on his more senior figures to step up to the responsibility of getting out of the mess they find themselves in.
"We're hurting," said Chris Basham after Sheffield United's 1-0 lead turned into a 2-1 deficit at the back end of what turned out to be 15 added minutes at Tottenham Hotspur.
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