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Who replaces Bannan for Huddersfield trip?
Barry Bannan sits out the second match of his three-game ban when Wednesday get back into promotion-chasing action at Huddersfield on Saturday. Carlos Carvalhal has an almost fully-fit squad to choose from after the international break but has to decide how best to compensate for the continued absence of the influential Bannan. He selected Sam […]
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Winger keen on long-term deal with Owls
Ross Wallace is keen to pledge his long-term future to Wednesday. The winger joined us last summer on a one-year contract, with an option for the player to extend the deal if it suited both him and the club. Now Wallace has told the Sheffield Star: “Hopefully we will have something sorted in the next […]
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Pudil in action for Czech Republic
Daniel Pudil played the full 90 minutes for the Czech Republic in their 1-1 friendly draw away to Sweden on Tuesday evening. Marcus Berg shot the home side in front on 14 minutes but Pudil’s former Watford team-mate Matej Vydra headed the Czech Republic level 12 minutes later.
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O’Neill’s concern over Keiren for Republic
Martin O’Neill has indicated that a lack of reliability for squads is the reason why Keiren Westwood has not automatically figured in his Republic of Ireland plans for this summer’s Euro Championships. Westwood was left out of the slimmed-down Republic squad named last week for friendlies against Switzerland and Slovakia and O’Neill is quoted in […]
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Clubmates face each other in Euro friendly
Wednesday’s Daniel Pudil and Barry Bannan found themselves on opposing sides on Thursday evening when Scotland faced the Czech Republic in Prague. Bannan came on as a 58th minute substitute for the Scots and Pudil did likewise for the Czechs with 11 minutes remaining. Scotland won the friendly 1-0 with an 11th minute goal from […]
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Remaining fixtures for promotion chasers
With Wednesday’s promotion push on hold for the international break, we thought you might like to take a look at the remaining fixtures for ourselves and the other eight clubs chasing the automatic promotion and play-off places. Such is the nature of the Championship that the rundown probably doesn’t make it any easier to predict […]
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Matias goal on shortlist for top award
The tremendous strike from Marco Matias at Leeds early in the season has been shortlisted in the Football League Goal of the Season competition. Matias’ cracker was announced on Channel 5’s Football League Tonight show as one of the top ten strikes of the season and Wednesday fans can now vote for the goal by […]
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Westwood left out of Republic squad
Keiren Westwood has been left out of the Republic of Ireland squad to face Switzerland and Slovakia in Dublin later this month. Westwood is one of seven players omitted from the original squad of 40 for the games on March 25 and 29, with the three remaining keepers being West Ham’s Darren Randolph, David Forde […]
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The Carvalhal verdict on Charlton victory
Carlos Carvalhal was pleased with Wednesday’s second-half display against Charlton after the team, not for the first time this season, struggled to stamp their authority on a game at Hillsborough in the first 45 minutes. The head coach talked about the difficulty of playing on the far from perfect surface early in games, when visiting […]
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Owls boost play-off hopes
Wednesday took another step towards the play-offs with a three-goal second-half scoring burst against Charlton. Few in the near 30,000 crowd would have predicted the eventual 3-0 scoreline after a lifeless first-half display. However, Carlos Carvalhal introduced Alex Lopez and Atdhe Nuhiu at the break and the changes paid dividends with Wednesday immediately looking a […]
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