Day: August 29, 2020
Why Bannan has taken captain’s armband
Barry Bannan has been given the captain’s armband at Hillsborough … in a challenge from Garry Monk to take his overall performances to the next level. Monk, who said he had talked the decision through with Bannan and former skipper Tom Lees, explained: “I just feel Barry needs that challenge, he’s at a stage here […]
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Monk: We played with good intensity
Garry Monk was pleased with Wednesday’s performance in today’s 0-0 friendly draw with Leicester City at Loughborough. The Owls manager said afterwards: “Leicester came to us at full strength, it was a really good test for us and I thought we did really well. “We grew stronger and stronger as the game went on. “There were […]
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Goalless draw in ‘closed doors’ friendly
Wednesday completed the week’s pre-season training camp with a goalless ‘closed doors’ friendly against Leicester City at Loughborough University Stadium on Saturday lunchtime. Both sides made several changes at half-time and in the second period, with Wednesday giving runouts to a cluster of youngsters during that time, in a match played in cold and blustery […]
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Owls v Leicester – 2nd half line-up
Wildsmith, Penney, Borner, Shaw, Iorfa, Odubajo, Hunt, Pelupessy, Dele-Bashiru. Reach, Rhodes.
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Owls v Leicester starting line-ups
Wednesday starting line-up for friendly v Leicester: Dawson, Van Aken, Lees, Iorfa, Palmer, Harris, Bannan, Luongo, Brown, Reach, Rhodes. Leicester starting line-up: Schmeichel, Justin, Morgan, Soyuncu, Thomas, Mendy, Praet, Tielemans, Albrighton, Barnes, Vardy.
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