Month: August 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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Pre-season friendly live on YouTube
A reminder that our friendly against Premier League Leicester City on Saturday is being aired for free on Wednesday’s official YouTube channel. The game, which is being played behind closed doors at Loughborough University Stadium, kicks off at noon.
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Palmer gets international call-up
Liam Palmer has been selected for the Scotland squad ahead of their two Nations League fixtures next month. Palmer, who already has five caps to his name, will link up with the squad that takes on Israel at Hampden Park on September 4 and then in the Czech Republic three days later.
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Carabao Cup tie live on Sky
Our Carabao Cup first round tie at Walsall will be live on Sky Sports on September 5. The game at the Banks’s Stadium will kick-off at 2.15pm.
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Owls to take on Foxes in friendly
Wednesday will face Premier League Leicester City in a behind-closed-doors friendly on August 29. The pre-season match is being played at Loughborough University Stadium, kick off at noon, and will be streamed live – and free of charge – on the official club YouTube channel It also signals the end of a five-day training camp […]
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Season starts with trip to Cardiff
Wednesday will kick off the next Championship season with a trip to Cardiff on September 12. We follow this with a home game against relegated Watford on September 19 and then travel to Bristol City on the following Saturday, as we face the added challenge of starting the campaign with the EFL 12-point punishment, unless […]
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