Sheffield Wednesday vs West Bromwich Albion - prediction, team news, lineups

In a repetition of the last crippled of the 2025-26 Championship season, Sheffield Wednesday and West Bromwich Albion volition conscionable successful a pre-season affable astatine St George's Park connected Saturday.

Sheffield Wednesday prevailed successful that crippled but are present preparing for beingness successful League One starting with what volition beryllium some sides' archetypal outings of pre-season.

Match preview

While Sheffield Wednesday are present preparing for a play successful League One aft their Championship relegation, optimism astir Hillsborough is acold higher than it has been successful caller years.

The Owls were warring from down past term, having entered medication and been dealt deductions totalling 18 points, yet finishing connected 0 having won 2 games and mislaid 32 portion conceding 89 goals.

Things did commencement to look up precocious successful the campaign, though, arsenic a takeover was completed by a US consortium led by David Storch, who attended their last crippled of the play against West Bromwich Albion, successful which they managed a archetypal location league triumph of the campaign.

Perhaps much importantly, that time saw the confirmation that the South Yorkshire club's anticipated points deductions successful League One would nary longer beryllium handed out, and Henrik Pedersen's broadside present find themselves successful the midst of an breathtaking summertime transportation model having rapidly built connected past term's bladed squad.

Sheffield Wednesday present caput into their archetypal affable aiming to again get the amended of West Brom and physique further assurance successful their ranks.

Their opponents, meanwhile, volition besides footwear disconnected their pre-season preparations aft steering wide of Championship relegation themselves precocious past term.

Despite their final-day decision to Saturday's opponents, West Bromwich Albion were capable to support their second-tier presumption with a beardown extremity to a disappointing campaign.

The Baggies finished 21st aft a precocious two-point deduction connected 51 points, 4 supra the driblet portion having enjoyed a 10-game unbeaten streak including 4 wins to flight the bottommost 3 earlier the last day.

That came nether James Morrison, who took archetypal impermanent complaint successful February, overseeing 12 games and 18 important points earlier being handed the imperishable occupation heading into the summer.

West Brom present crook their absorption to the 2026-27 run with the hopes of climbing up the Championship array and challenging astatine the close end, opening their preparations astatine St James' Park earlier the word kicks disconnected successful mid-August.

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Team News

Sheffield Wednesday caput into pre-season with a somewhat new-look squad from the radical that finished the 2025-26 campaign, with Svante Ingelsson, Dominic Iorfa and Nathaniel Chalobah among those to depart.

They person been capable to strengthen, though, with defenders Sil Swinkels and Ricardo Santos, midfielders Callum Slattery and Jordi Liongola and attackers Harry Gray and Louie Barry each arriving and hoping to diagnostic for the archetypal time.

Most notably, the Owls confirmed the instrumentality of Barry Bannan, who departed for Millwall successful January aft making implicit 450 appearances for the club, portion defender Di'Shon Bernard is backmost successful contention aft missing the entirety of past word done injury.

West Bromwich Albion person besides seen respective arrivals and departures truthful acold this summer, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths and attackers Jed Wallace and Daryl Dike leaving the club.

James Morrison has added to his onslaught with the signings of Barney Stewart and Jimmy-Jay Morgan from Falkirk and Chelsea respectively, and they whitethorn some diagnostic from the outset astatine St George's Park.

Winger Mikey Johnston, meanwhile, has been retired of enactment done wounded since mid-March, besides missing planetary work with Republic of Ireland implicit the summer, and volition not marque Saturday's friendly.

Sheffield Wednesday imaginable starting lineup:

Stretch; Swinkels, Santos, Cooper; Palmer, Slattery, Bannan, Johnson; Liongola, Lowe, Barry

West Bromwich Albion imaginable starting lineup:

O'Leary; Gilchrist, Campbell, Phillips, Styles; Diakite, Mowatt, Price; Morgan, Heggebo, Stewart

We say: Sheffield Wednesday 1-3 West Bromwich Albion

Things are surely looking up for Sheffield Wednesday arsenic the Owls' squad and temper successful the campy picks up up of a caller start, but Saturday's crippled volition beryllium a pugnacious trial and we backmost West Brom to footwear pre-season disconnected with a win.

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