Month: February 2017
Owls double TV date inside five days
Wednesday’s home game with Newcastle on April 8 will now be screened live on Sky Sports, with the kick off moved from 3pm to 5.30pm. That means we will be playing in front of the Sky cameras twice in five days with our trip to Rotherham on April 4 already scheduled as live game, kick […]
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Carlos looks for home comfort after defeat
Carlos Carvalhal immediately turned his attention to the upcoming games after the narrow defeat at Leeds. The head coach said: “Now we have four games, three at home and one away and next month will be very important month to us. “We must be 100 per cent focussed and put a lot of energy into the […]
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Spot of bother as Owls lose out in derby
Wednesday suffered a second successive defeat and a further setback to our play-off hopes when we lost the Yorkshire derby 1-0 at Leeds. A defensive error for their goal and a missed penalty from Jordan Rhodes proved the decisive moments in a game where we had enough of the play, particularly in the second half, but lacked […]
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Westwood, Hunt, Loovens, Sasso, Fox, Wallace, Hutchinson, Abdi, Reach, Rhodes, Forestieri. Subs. Wildsmith, Palmer, Semedo, Bannan, McManaman, Fletcher, Winnall
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Join fellow fans for Leeds TV clash
If you’re not part of the sellout Wednesday following at Elland Road on Saturday then you can join fellow London Owls to watch the match against Leeds on Sky. We’ll be gathering at our usual London meeting place – Mabel’s Tavern – for the clash with our Yorkshire rivals and fellow play-off contenders and, don’t forget, kick off […]
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‘Ref was disaster in first half’ says Carlos
Carlos Carvalhal was highly critical of referee Darren Bond’s first-half performance after our disappointing 2-1 home defeat to Brentford. Carvalhal acknowledged that Wednesday were poor in the first 45 minutes but said of Bond: “The referee in the first half was a disaster. A very poor performance, he made everybody nervous, he made the fans […]
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Owls miss chance to pressure top six rivals
Wednesday’s play-off push took a setback when we paid for another lacklustre first-half display at Hillsborough and went down 2-1 to Brentford. We went into the game knowing that victory would have taken us up into fourth place and 10 points clear of seventh-placed Norwich. Instead, Wednesday ended up staying in sixth place, still seven points […]
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Westwood, Palmer, Loovens, Sasso, Reach, Wallace, Abdi, Hutchinson, Bannan, Forestieri, Rhodes. Subs. Wildsmith, Pudil, Jones, Semedo, Fletcher, McManaman, Winnall.
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Victory would mean fourth spot for Owls
Wednesday go into Tuesday night’s game with Brentford at Hillsborough knowing that a fifth successive win would lift us from sixth place to fourth in the Championship. Victory would take us three points ahead of fifth-placed Leeds and, with third-placed Huddersfield hosting Reading in fourth, success for ourselves will ensure we move up two places … whatever the result at […]
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Carlos hails teamwork … and stunning goals
Carlos Carvalhal was delighted with Wednesday’s teamwork – and two cracking goals – after the win at Forest. The head coach felt the 2-1 scoreline was a fair one, talking about how the home side caused some problems early on before we managed to take control. He said: “It was a difficult game but we […]
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