Sheffield Wednesday vs Stockport County - prediction, team news, lineups

Sheffield Wednesday volition invited Stockport County to Hillsborough connected Saturday successful hunt of a instrumentality to winning ways to fortify their presumption astatine the apical of the League One table.

The hosts had to settee for a gully past play aft 3 consecutive wins, portion their visitors dropped to eighth spot with a decision past clip out.

Match preview

Sheffield Wednesday volition purpose to proceed their beardown commencement to the League One play connected Saturday successful their instrumentality to enactment astatine Hillsborough.

After a 2025-26 play to forget, being relegated connected 0 points owed to administration, and a caller commencement implicit the summertime with caller ownership and ambitions for an contiguous instrumentality to the 2nd tier, they presently apical the 3rd tier having earned 13 points from their archetypal six matches.

The Owls person impressed astatine some ends of the pitch, with lone 1 squad topping their 13 goals portion conscionable 2 person conceded less than the six they person allowed, albeit with their archetypal league cleanable expanse of the play coming astatine the sixth clip of asking past weekend.

On the backmost of that solitary decision to Bradford City successful their 2nd game, Henrik Pedersen's broadside enactment unneurotic consecutive wins implicit Bromley, Wycombe Wanderers and Peterborough United, scoring 11 goals successful those, earlier hosting Wigan Athletic past Saturday and settling for a stock of the points arsenic they played retired a goalless stalemate.

Still with plentifulness of positives to instrumentality from their commencement to the season, having rapidly enactment past play down them and focussed connected a promotion bid, Sheffield Wednesday volition look to bounce backmost and instrumentality each 3 points astatine the weekend.

In their mode basal a visiting broadside keen to rejoin the Owls astatine the apical extremity of the part aft a setback past clip out.

Stockport County underwent a summertime of alteration connected the backmost of a 2nd consecutive third-placed League One decorativeness and playoff decision past clip around, replacing two-time promotion victor Dave Challinor with caller manager Jimmy McNulty.

From his archetypal six league games astatine the helm, the Hatters person managed 3 victories alongside 3 defeats, scoring a league-high tally of 16 goals successful the process portion conceding 10.

In the victories, 2 of which came distant from home, McNulty's broadside notched up 12 goals and lone conceded two, astir precocious thrashing Wigan Athletic 4-0 distant from home, earlier they hosted Leicester City astatine the play and fell 4-1 down earlier coming wrong 1 extremity of sharing the points arsenic Ollie Norwood and Kyle Wootton reduced the shortage to 4-3 successful the 2nd half.

With positives to instrumentality from that spirited show successful defeat, but origin for interest elsewhere having conceded 10 goals and not yet recorded consecutive league wins, Stockport County volition spell successful hunt of a connection triumph astatine Hillsborough and marque it 3 distant victories for the play successful League One successful the hopes of putting a much accordant tally unneurotic to found themselves arsenic frontrunners.

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Team News

Sheffield Wednesday proceed to contend with a agelong wounded list, with defender Di'Shon Bernard inactive not yet acceptable to articulation the archetypal squad portion Sil Swinkels, Max Lowe, Tyler Onyango, Jordi Liongola, George Brown and Louie Barry should besides stay sidelined.

Ricardo Santos returned from an wounded layoff past clip retired and should again spouse Liam Cooper successful the mediate of the defence, portion returning Reece James volition proceed astatine left-back successful Lowe's absence.

Pedersen has the enactment to marque changes successful attack, with Kieran Morrison, Jamal Lowe and Mason Burstow having started astatine the play portion Ali Al-Hamadi, Harry Gray and Davis Keillor-Dunn volition vie to travel in, portion Barry Bannan, Callum Slattery and Billy Mitchell should each support their places with Slattery having shifted retired to the left-hand broadside past clip out.

Stockport County are inactive incapable to telephone connected defender Brad Hills and attacker Adama Sidibeh, some of whom person missed the commencement of the play done injury.

The Hatters whitethorn beryllium unchanged from past week's constrictive decision to Leicester, with McNulty apt to support spot successful the backmost 3 of Kyron Gordon, Eoghan O'Connell and Ethan Pye.

Lewis Bate and Ollie Norwood are mainstays successful midfield, portion beforehand antheral Kyle Wootton has already scored 5 goals successful 7 games this play aft hitting 20 successful League One past clip around, with wingers Jack Diamond and Harry Wood having besides scored 4 and 3 of their ain respectively successful the league.

Sheffield Wednesday imaginable starting lineup:

Lumley; Valery, Santos, Cooper, James; Bannan, Mitchell; Morrison, Keillor-Dunn, Slattery; J Lowe

Stockport County imaginable starting lineup:

Whatmuff; Gordon, O'Connell, Pye; Glover, Bate, Norwood, Osborn; Diamond, Wootton, Wood

We say: Sheffield Wednesday 3-2 Stockport County

Stockport County's play frankincense acold has been denied by inconsistency and eventful matches, and portion we surely spot them causing problems for the hosts, we fancy Sheffield Wednesday to prevail successful a high-scoring encounter.

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