Wednesday ended our run of three successive Championship defeats with a convincing 3-0 win at Plymouth this afternoon.
It could have been more than three against a very poor Plymouth side and takes us onto 48 points, still in 13th place, and seven points adrift of the play-off positions.
Plymouth had actually begun the game in aggressive fashion, Mustapha Bundu bringing a diving save out of James Beadle in the first minute and then Nathanael Ogbeta curling wide.
However, Wednesday survived the early pressure and Josh Windass headed wide before we took the lead on 15 minutes.
Svante Ingelsson sent a volleyed left-side cross into the six-yard box and Ogbeta, under pressure from Djeidi Gassama, could only turn the ball into his own net.
Shea Charles missed a clear chance to double the lead seven minutes later when he shot wide following a sharp Wednesday passing movement.
However, we did make it 2-0 three minutes before the break when Callum Paterson began a move down the left and was then on the end of Ingelsson’s ensuing cross, calmly sidefooting low past Conor Hazard from 10 yards.
Any possibility of a stronger Plymouth performance after the break never materialised and a third goal from Wednesday followed on 68 minutes.
Windass threaded a fine through ball to Gassama inside the box and he shook of the attentions of a defender to send an excellent angled effort across Hazard and into the far corner of the net.
With the home side still failing to pose any real concerns, we might easily have increased the lead twice in the last 15 minutes … and both times through Michael Smith.
With 15 minutes remaining, Smith took advantage of a defensive error and broke clear, only to see his effort blocked by the advancing Hazard, and then Pol Valentin’s cross in added time found the striker in space 12 yards out but he shot wide.
Despite Plymouth’s poor showing, it was a convincing Wednesday victory on the back of those three recent losses and also saw us chalking up an eighth win on the road this season.
Beadle, Iorfa (Palmer 69), Ihiekwe, M Lowe, Hatsuse, S Charles, Bannan (Chalobah 66), Ingelsson (Valentin 46), Gassama, Windass (Kobacki 69), Paterson (Smith 63). Unused subs: P Charles, Johnson, Cissoko, J Lowe.