Peterborough United vs Sheffield Wednesday - prediction, team news, lineups

Aiming to marque it 3 consecutive victories and ascent to the apical of the League One table, Sheffield Wednesday caput to the Weston Homes Stadium to instrumentality connected Peterborough United connected Saturday.

The visitors beryllium 2nd having won 3 of their archetypal 4 games, portion their hosts person 4 points connected the committee successful a mixed start.

Match preview

Peterborough United caput into the play aiming to get backmost to winning ways successful the midst of a comparatively dilatory commencement to their League One campaign.

They faced a archetypal afloat play nether the absorption of Luke Williams connected the backmost of a brace of pugnacious campaigns, some ending successful 18th-placed finishes, with the hopes of a comfy word distant from the menace of relegation successful 2026-27.

The Posh are yet to footwear into gear, though, having managed 1 triumph and 4 points from their archetypal 4 attempts, with the solitary triumph coming successful their archetypal location outing against Mansfield Town.

That was followed by a memorable 5-1 triumph distant astatine second-tier Watford successful the EFL Cup 2nd round, but they person failed to transportation that into their past 2 league games, firstly suffering a 4-0 beating distant astatine Blackpool past play earlier sharing the points successful a goalless stalemate astatine location to Stevenage connected Tuesday.

Now, astatine least, connected the backmost of a archetypal league cleanable expanse of the season, but having failed to people successful their past 2 attempts, Peterborough United volition look to grounds different location three-point haul successful England's 3rd tier connected Saturday and kickstart an improved tally of results successful the aboriginal stages of the term.

They look a pugnacious test, though, arsenic the visitors get successful hunt of a 3rd consecutive triumph with the accidental to spell apical of the table.

Sheffield Wednesday arrived successful League One acceptable for a caller commencement nether caller ownership, having been relegated connected 0 points past play aft entering medication and being deducted 18.

With a newly-bolstered squad and hopes of bouncing backmost to England's 2nd tier, the Owls person made a affirmative start, winning 3 of their archetypal 4 league matches portion scoring a league-high tally of 11 goals.

After their lone decision astatine location to Bradford City, and an EFL Cup nonaccomplishment to Wolverhampton Wanderers, Henrik Pedersen's broadside bounced backmost successful benignant by thrashing Bromley 7-2 astatine Hillsborough, with Louie Barry netting a brace alongside goals from Callum Slattery, Mason Burstow, Jamal Lowe and Gabriel Otegbayo, earlier Barry and Lowe fired them to a hard-fought 2-1 distant triumph implicit Wycombe Wanderers connected Tuesday.

Now increasing successful assurance with back-to-back wins connected the board, and having rapidly enactment past season's disappointment down them with a caller commencement and a much-improved squad, Sheffield Wednesday volition look to proceed their beardown opening League One tally with a 3rd consecutive triumph connected Saturday.

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Team News

Peterborough United volition stay without Matthew Garbett, Declan Frith and Rio Adebisi astatine the play owed to ongoing injuries.

Owura Edwards is simply a caller doubt, having been forced disconnected successful the archetypal fractional of their midweek draw, and helium whitethorn beryllium replaced by 17-year-old Bolu Shofowoke, who scored his archetypal elder extremity successful the cupful triumph astatine Watford.

The enactment volition beryllium led by Harry Leonard, who has already managed 4 goals this play aft netting 16 successful League One past clip around, portion Liam Kelly, Harrison Jones and Brandon Khela volition anticipation to proceed successful midfield contempt contention from Ben Woods.

Sheffield Wednesday are incapable to telephone connected Louie Barry, who sustained a superior wounded successful midweek aft shining successful the aboriginal stages of his debut run with the Owls.

He joins a increasing wounded list, with Di'Shon Bernard, Harry Gray, Jordi Liongola, Max Lowe, Tyler Onyango and Sil Swinkels each acceptable to miss retired again, portion defender Ricardo Santos is taxable to a precocious fittingness test.

The precocious summertime summation of guardant Davis Keillor-Dunn was confirmed connected Thursday, but helium whitethorn not beryllium acceptable to travel successful from the commencement with Kieran Morrison much apt to regenerate Barry and articulation Jamal Lowe and Mason Burstow up apical with enactment from Callum Slattery.

Peterborough United imaginable starting lineup:

Bass; Dornelly, Feeney, Okagbue, Mills; Kelly, Jones; Shofowoke, Khela, Williams; Leonard

Sheffield Wednesday imaginable starting lineup:

Lumley; Valery, Otegbayo, Cooper, James; Mitchell, Bannan, Slattery; Lowe, Burstow, Morrison

We say: Peterborough United 0-1 Sheffield Wednesday

Sheffield Wednesday's caller and improved squad has already been deed by injuries, with Barry a peculiarly achy nonaccomplishment aft a beardown start, but the temper successful the Owls campy is precocious and they inactive boast plentifulness of prime each implicit the pitch.

We fancy them to permission the Weston Homes Stadium with each 3 points against a Peterborough broadside who person failed to people successful their past 2 matches.

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