Doncaster Rovers vs Sheffield Wednesday - prediction, team news, lineups

Both aiming to bounce backmost from midweek defeats successful their fights astatine other ends of the League One table, Doncaster Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday volition contention a South Yorkshire derby astatine Club Doncaster Sports Village connected Saturday.

Back-to-back defeats permission the hosts lone supra the relegation portion connected extremity difference, portion their visitors fell retired of the playoff spots pursuing an distant loss.

Match preview

Doncaster Rovers caput into the play aiming to bounce backmost from consecutive defeats and physique a pb implicit League One's relegation zone.

After yet finishing 14th successful their archetypal play backmost successful the 3rd tier past clip around, they person experienced a pugnacious commencement to the caller term, managing 9 points from their archetypal 10 games acknowledgment to 2 victories alongside 5 defeats.

Those wins came consecutively either broadside of the September and October planetary break, with Grant McCann's broadside beating Burton Albion 1-0 connected their instrumentality to action, but they person failed to physique connected that since, firstly visiting Leicester City and falling abbreviated successful a 2-1 nonaccomplishment arsenic Alfie May's 84th-minute extremity was not capable to spark a comeback.

The Rovers past hosted Stockport County successful different pugnacious trial astatine the play and came distant empty-handed, with Mamadou Jobe and Kyle Wootton scoring goals aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional of a 2-0 distant win.

Still extracurricular of the bottommost 4 acknowledgment to those caller wins, but present sat 19th and lone supra 2 teams connected extremity quality and 22nd and 23rd spots by 1 point, Doncaster Rovers volition bid to get backmost to winning ways and determination person towards mid-table astatine the weekend.

Their visitors, meanwhile, marque the abbreviated travel besides hoping to bounce backmost from a midweek setback successful their bid for an contiguous promotion backmost to the Championship.

Enjoying a caller commencement retired of medication and nether caller ownership aft a 2025-26 play to forget, Sheffield Wednesday person made a comparatively accelerated commencement to beingness backmost successful League One, earning 18 points from their 10 matches.

While their tally of 20 goals does drawback the eye, 12 of those came crossed 2 ascendant victories for the Owls, who person besides failed to people successful 3 of their past 5 league games including their 2 earlier the break.

On their return, Henrik Pedersen's men came from 2-0 down to gully 2-2 astatine Huddersfield Town and thrashed AFC Wimbledon 5-0 past weekend, lone to sojourn Notts County successful midweek and endure a archetypal league nonaccomplishment since August arsenic Daniel Kanu and Darius Lipsiuc scored successful a 2-0 location triumph with the Owls reduced to 10 men aboriginal successful the 2nd half.

Now sat seventh but inactive conscionable 4 points down archetypal and 2nd spots with a crippled successful manus connected each broadside successful the apical six, Sheffield Wednesday volition look to enactment their caller blips down them and instrumentality to their ascendant champion successful Saturday's derby.

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Team News

Doncaster Rovers stay deed by injuries, with James Collins, Francis Okoronkwo, Matty Pearson, James Husband, Tommi O'Reilly, Jack Senior, Jamie Sterry and Jordan Thomas each apt remaining sidelined.

Those losses permission them peculiarly airy successful defence, starring McCann to power to a backmost 3 of Sean Grehan, Neill Byrne and Jay McGrath successful caller games.

Will Keane, Hakeeb Adelakun and Isaac Hutchinson volition each propulsion for attacking starts aft Brandon Hanlan and Alfie May joined prima antheral and skipper Owen Bailey astatine the apical extremity of the transportation successful midweek.

Sheffield Wendesday besides person a agelong database of absentees, with Louie Barry, Joe Lumley, Tyler Onyango, Ricardo Santos, Jordi Liongola and Sil Swinkels sidelined portion Di'Shon Bernard was besides forced disconnected aboriginal successful their midweek decision arsenic helium continued a instrumentality from a semipermanent injury.

Jamal Lowe volition besides miss retired done suspension aft being sent disconnected against Notts County, arsenic volition cardinal midfielder Callum Slattery, who has reached 5 league yellowish cards for the season.

Gabriel Otegbayo whitethorn commencement astatine the backmost successful Bernard's absence, portion Kieran Morrison and Mason Burstow whitethorn articulation Davis Keillor-Dunn and Harry Gray astatine the apical extremity of their 4-2-3-1 setup.

Doncaster Rovers imaginable starting lineup:

Simkin; Grehan, Byrne, McGrath; Ayinde, Gotts, Broadbent, McCann; Bailey, May, Hutchinson

Sheffield Wednesday imaginable starting lineup:

Maynard-Brewer; Valery, Cooper, Otegbayo, James; Mitchell, Bannan; Morrison, Keillor-Dunn, Gray; Burstow

We say: Doncaster Rovers 1-2 Sheffield Wednesday

Sheffield Wednesday's squad is severely deed by injuries and suspensions, but the remaining radical inactive has plentifulness of prime and should beryllium capable to bounce backmost against a Doncaster Rovers squad debased connected confidence.

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