Sheffield Wednesday vs Charlton Athletic - prediction, team news, lineups

With a accidental to each but warrant their Championship safety, Charlton Athletic volition caput to Hillsborough to instrumentality connected Sheffield Wednesday connected Saturday.

The visitors pb the bottommost 3 successful the Championship table by 4 spots and 5 points with 4 games remaining, portion their hosts are confined to relegation and a 24th-placed decorativeness owed to their struggles this term.

Match preview

Sheffield Wednesday caput into their penultimate location crippled of the Championship play connected Saturday with their impending driblet to League One looming, capping disconnected a hard play connected and disconnected the pitch.

They faced a adjacent intolerable task from the commencement owed to fiscal issues and a threadbare squad, with immoderate endurance hopes seen disconnected by entering medication successful October, starring the Owls to beryllium deed by deductions totalling 18 points.

With 4 games remaining, they present beryllium connected -4 points, failing to flooded those deductions, with their lone league triumph each word coming successful September and having since gone connected a shot league grounds agelong winless tally of 36 games, portion they person conceded a league-high tally of 82 goals and scored a league-low 25.

Henrik Pedersen's broadside bash find themselves with immoderate optimism for the future, though, having lifted spirits with a brace of creditable draws successful the past 2 outings, firstly being held precocious connected to a 1-1 gully by Leicester City having led aboriginal done Jerry Yates earlier visiting league leaders Coventry City connected Saturday and denying the hosts the confirmation of their promotion having kept the crippled goalless.

Now facing the past 4 games earlier their drop, with a power to caller ownership and an exit from medication seemingly nearing, Sheffield Wednesday volition bid to physique connected those affirmative results and get wrong touching region of escaping antagonistic points with a archetypal location league triumph of the play connected Saturday.

Their visitors, meanwhile, caput to South Yorkshire successful hunt of a instrumentality to winning ways which would each but corroborate their second-tier presumption for adjacent season.

After winning promotion from League One past clip around, Charlton Athletic person experienced a mixed Championship run but inactive find themselves conscionable astir successful the combat for survival, having earned 49 points from their 42 games to beryllium 18th.

The Addicks looked harmless with back-to-back 1-0 wins implicit Birmingham City and Middlesbrough successful mid-March, but they person since gone winless successful 5 games portion lone adding 2 points to their tally, opening with a gully against strugglers Oxford United and a brace of consecutive defeats.

Then connected the backmost of an distant gully against Watford connected Easter Monday, Nathan Jones hosted Preston North End connected Saturday and again failed to determination retired of scope of the driblet zone, arsenic they fell to a 2-1 decision astatine the Valley contempt starring done Joe Rankin-Costello with Lewis Dobbin levelling the scores earlier Brad Potts sealed each 3 goals for the visitors successful the 2nd half.

Now boasting a five-point pb implicit the bottommost 3 with 4 games remaining, Charlton Athletic caput to Hillsborough knowing a archetypal triumph successful six games would beryllium astir capable to unafraid their Championship spot adjacent season.

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Team News

Sheffield Wednesday stay without Murphy Cooper, Liam Cooper, Di'Shon Bernard, Ernie Weaver, Ike Ugbo and George Brown connected Saturday owed to ongoing injuries.

The Owls whitethorn beryllium unchanged from the goalless gully with Coventry City, though full-back Tayo Adaramola is an wounded uncertainty aft coming disconnected successful that game, and if helium is not deemed acceptable to feature, Cole McGhee whitethorn instrumentality his spot astatine the back.

Marvelous Nakamba is successful contention for a midfield spot having featured disconnected the seat past weekend, portion Yates volition pb their onslaught having netted 4 goals since his January indebtedness arrival.

Charlton Athletic are inactive incapable to telephone connected first-choice goalkeeper Thomas Kaminski, who is confined to the attraction country alongside Josh Edwards and Collins Sichenje, portion Conor Coady besides missed past week's decision to Preston.

Harvey Knibbs has besides been sidelined recently, though determination remains contention for midfield and attacking spots with the likes of Luke Berry and Conor Coventry warring for returns to the starting XI.

Charlie Kelman, Matt Godden and Miles Leaburn volition besides vie for spots up front, though Jones has preferred Lyndon Dykes successful caller weeks with the Scottish planetary having netted 3 league goals since his January arrival.

Sheffield Wednesday imaginable starting lineup:

Charles; Palmer, Otegbayo, McGhee; Fusire, Ingelsson, Chalobah, Heskey, M Lowe; J Lowe, Yates

Charlton Athletic imaginable starting lineup:

Mannion; Ramsay, Jones, Bell; Carey, Docherty, Rankin-Costello, Chambers; Berry, Campbell; Kelman

We say: Sheffield Wednesday 0-1 Charlton Athletic

Sheffield Wednesday person shown combat successful abundance successful caller weeks to play retired back-to-back draws contempt their struggles, but Charlton Athletic caput to the basement broadside needing to instrumentality their accidental to unafraid Championship presumption and we backmost them to get implicit the enactment astatine Hillsborough.

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