Wednesday turned in another below-par home display and slumped to a single goal defeat against Blackburn at Hillsborough tonight.
Once again, we looked short of confidence and belief in front of our fans with the build-up play often too slow and hesitant and no cutting edge up front.
Blackburn looked well organised, showed more belief than us and once they had taken a second-half lead we rarely looked like getting back in the game, leaving us with just three wins from 11 home league games.
It was another frustrating evening for the S6 faithful, following on from Saturday’s fortunate 1-1 draw with Preston and just one point from two home games inside three days sees us drop back to 12th place in the Championship.
It took 21 minutes for either side to get an effort on target, Dominic Iorfa’s header saved by Aynsley Pears before the Rovers keeper pushed away a Josh Windass free kick soon afterwards.
However, Blackburn went closest to scoring in the first half when Lewis Travis’ 25-yarder crashed back off the underside of the bar on 35 minutes.
Wednesday retaliated with a Yan Valery header against the bar and then Di’Shon Bernard nodded over the top from Barry Bannan’s cross.
The game continued in a largely low-key manner after the interval with neither side really threatening before Blackburn grabbed the all-important goal midway through the half.
Sloppy defending saw us allow Rovers to cross from the left and, when it was reworked into the box from the right, sub Makhtar Gueye beat Bernard to the ball inside the six-yard box to head past Beadle.
We rallied late on, Smith seeing his header saved by Pears and then his close-range effort in the box being blocked before Bannan curled a 20-yard free kick wide to complete another disappointing result for the Owls.
Beadle, Valery (Valentin 62), Iorfa (Paterson 77), Bernard, Johnson, M Lowe, S Charles, Bannan, Musaba (Ugbo 77), J Lowe (Smith 69), Windass (Gassama 69). Unused subs: P. Charles, Palmer, Ingelsson, Chalobah. Attendance: 22,703.