Thomas Cannon returned to the bet365 Stadium to haunt former club Stoke as the Irish striker scored Sheffield United’s winner.
Cannon was starring on loan for Stoke last season before Leicester recalled him and sold him to the Blades for an initial £10m in January.
He has found goals harder to come by at United and his strike was only his third of the season as the visitors made it five wins on the bounce against Stoke to get over their Boxing Day bashing at Wrexham.
Jairo Riedewald had opened the scoring with his first United goal before Cannon’s effort but Ben Wilmot halved the deficit to set up a nervy finale, only for Stoke’s Ben Pearson to be dismissed late on for fouling Patrick Bamford when he was the last man.
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