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Chris Wilder: Plenty of time for 'classy' Darren Moore to mount promotion charge

Chris Wilder says there is still plenty of time for 'classy' Darren Moore to have a say in the promotion race.

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The Sheffield United boss was impressed with Moore's insistence on waiting to shake his players' hands after Saturday's 1-0 win for the Blades at The Hawthorns.

Although he was delighted to exact revenge from the 2-1 defeat at Bramall Lane earlier in the season, he's not ruling Albion out of the top two yet.

"Our season is not done and dusted because we've won here and it wouldn't be if we'd lost, and the same goes for Darren," said Wilder.

"He showed a touch of class waiting for our players after the game and shaking their hands. And his team as well, it wasn't their best performance but they kept going to the end."

"There's 12 games to go," added Wilder. "A lot of teams have got to play each other and even those teams people see as relatively easy to turn over, won't be. They've all got something riding on it."

United moved four points clear of Albion thanks to Kieran Dowell's 14th-minute header, which proved enough to separate the teams.

"We tried to get off the back of Gareth Barry," revealed Wilder. "Get around him or off the back of him.

"We did that quite well, but we needed to be a little bit more tidy in possession and we could have hurt West Brom a little bit more than we did.

"We stuck in there, and had a couple of big moments. Kieran's goal and Dean Henderson's save has won us a valuable three points."

Wilder, who is a Blades fan, was particularly pleased with his side's staunch defensive work off the ball.

"We tried to stop them lifting their head because they've got good players," he added. "I didn't think after we broke it up we controlled the game as much as we should have done.

"If it had been roles reversed and we were chasing and West Brom had those opportunities to break they would have hurt us more.

"But it was a tight game, we're delighted we've won a tight game. It was not our best with the ball, but we were at our very best without it."