We have to put a run together - Wilder

Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder says his team "have to put a run together if they want to get something out of the season".

The Blades are nine points adrift of the play-off spots with 14 games remaining and face 14th-placed QPR at Loftus Road on Saturday (15:00 GMT).

"We need another big performance. We're at the business end of the season. We understand where we want to be," Wilder told BBC Radio Sheffield.

"The players understand that. We've got to put a run together. We did it last season."

United put together two lengthy unbeaten runs in the 2024-25 campaign - one which lasted nine games (W6 D3) and another 11-match streak (W9 D2).

Wilder has challenged the squad to do something similar if they are to have a late push towards the top six.

"It can happen and it can happen in this division," Wilder added.

"It's not the Premier League where all of a sudden the fixture list sticks an Arsenal in there or a Man City - or even other clubs - so you can do that.

"I think the difference maybe last season was that defensively in those key moments we saw teams off. So when we're suffering, we have to defend those moments a little bit better.

"But we've got the opportunity, we've got the ability in the group to go and win games of football and we understand that.

"If we want to get something out of season, we've got to go and attack the game [at QPR] and go and win it."