Sheffield Wednesday v Aston Villa: Pre-Match Thread

[SoccerHQ]

Whatever happened to Forestieri? He caused us no end of grief last season.

He fell out with Carvahal start of the season and also had a training ground fight so was in exile for a few weeks. In that time he picked up a season ending injury.

[SoccerHQ]

If we were gaining victories based on what percentage of the opposition players I've heard of, we would finish the season with forty-six wins, and probably get about thirty wins on our way to romping next year's Premier League title.

Jordon Rhodes, Steven Fletcher, Gary Hooper, Barry Bannan and Kieran Lee, I'm sure you've heard of a few of those. All injured/unavailable for them atm and they're all regular players.

[Three Spires Villa]

Draw, not happy

[AsTallAsLions]

Whatever happened to Forestieri? He caused us no end of grief last season.

He fell out with Carvahal start of the season and also had a training ground fight so was in exile for a few weeks. In that time he picked up a season ending injury.

Bloody hell. Fair enough so.

[SoccerHQ]

This is from a few weeks ago but still very relevant:

Jos Luhukay has revealed none of Sheffield Wednesday’s injured stars will return for Saturday’s visit of Cardiff City.

 The owls are missing 10 first-team regulars with long-term injuries, including strikers Gary Hooper, Steven Fletcher and Fernando Forestieri, defenders Tom Lees and Joost van Aken, plus midfielders Sam Hutchinson, Kieran Lee and Barry Bannan.

 Midfielder Almen Abdi faces a fortnight on the sidelines after picking up a muscle injury in training, while goalkeeper Keiren Westwood has been ordered to rest for “two or three weeks”. New Owls manager Luhukay inherited a squad full of crocked players, and says the club’s overworked medical team are putting in up to 12-hour shifts to treat the injured players.

They're also missing their first choice keeper Kieran Westwood who's one of the better ones at this level and one of the players I know nothing about Thorniley apparently picked up a bad injury at Millwall last night.

Word of warning though, that Cardiff game they drew 0-0. They also beat Derby 2-0.

They're tough to beat. I can see it being 0-0 if SB dosen't start putting out more attacking teams from the start.

[Des Little]

We need to find a way of playing without Jack and Albert otherwise we'll get more of the same as we saw last night, ie zero creativity.  Play Grabban up top with Hogan, put Lansbury in for Onomah and Elmo at RB for Tuanzebe until he can last the 90.

[Ads]

Their number 32 sounds like a serious illness.

[SoccerHQ]

Their number 32 sounds like a serious illness.

He scored last night so trying to inflict the Pelupessy plague at the Den.

[Ads]

This is from a few weeks ago but still very relevant:

Jos Luhukay has revealed none of Sheffield Wednesday’s injured stars will return for Saturday’s visit of Cardiff City.

 The owls are missing 10 first-team regulars with long-term injuries, including strikers Gary Hooper, Steven Fletcher and Fernando Forestieri, defenders Tom Lees and Joost van Aken, plus midfielders Sam Hutchinson, Kieran Lee and Barry Bannan.

 Midfielder Almen Abdi faces a fortnight on the sidelines after picking up a muscle injury in training, while goalkeeper Keiren Westwood has been ordered to rest for “two or three weeks”. New Owls manager Luhukay inherited a squad full of crocked players, and says the club’s overworked medical team are putting in up to 12-hour shifts to treat the injured players.

They're also missing their first choice keeper Kieran Westwood who's one of the better ones at this level and one of the players I know nothing about Thorniley apparently picked up a bad injury at Millwall last night.

Word of warning though, that Cardiff game they drew 0-0. They also beat Derby 2-0.

They're tough to beat. I can see it being 0-0 if SB dosen't start putting out more attacking teams from the start.

They drew with Sheffield United too.

Its a game where if get one goal, we will probably win it. But whether we're capable of scoring depends on whether we have the likes of Grabban, Angela, Elmo on the pitch and Onomah, Jedinak etc not.

[Damo70]

Their number 32 sounds like a serious illness.

He scored last night so trying to inflict the Pelupessy plague at the Den.

I thought Pelupessy was one of the later and poorer Roger Moore Bond films.

Wednesday are 16th in the league and 18th in the Championship home form table from the last ten games. W2 D4 L4. They were seven without a win at home until they beat Derby in their last home game. Add in their injuries and this this is one we should be capable of winning. Although my gut feeling is a 1-1 draw.

[UK Redsox]

Johnstone

McRoberto Carlos
Chester
Terry
Elmo (was not impressed with Axel)

Snoddy
Bjarney
Jedi
O'Hare

Grabban
Davis

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Snoddy
Bjarney
Jedi
O'Hare

You need to choose one between Jedi and Bjarney. If teams like to hoof it, play Jedi as he'll win almost every header. If teams can play a bit, like Wednesday (at least at Villa Park where the picked us off at ease), then we need the legs of Bjarney. Both is just too negative.

O'Hare deserves a chance to show what he can do though listening to Bruce, he sounds like he's betting the farm on experience.

[AsTallAsLions]

Snoddy
Bjarney
Jedi
O'Hare

You need to choose one between Jedi and Bjarney. If teams like to hoof it, play Jedi as he'll win almost every header. If teams can play a bit, like Wednesday (at least at Villa Park where the picked us off at ease), then we need the legs of Bjarney. Both is just too negative.

O'Hare deserves a chance to show what he can do though listening to Bruce, he sounds like he's betting the farm on experience.

Experience of what? He's choosing to play Tuanzebe and Onomah, neither of whom have been anywhere near a Championship dogfight, rather than starting the more experienced players that he himself bought.

He does give off the impression of someone who favours experience but at the moment none of his choices are making a huge deal of sense to me.

[UK Redsox]

The experience move would be to bring Taylor in at left back and switch Alan to the right. Elmo could then play on the wing rather than Airport-boy

[preston28]

Draw. More lost ground on 2nd.

Not necessarily.  Cardiff have to play Ipswich and Bristol City, Fulham have Bristol City and Wolves whilst Derby have Leeds and Reading!  Who can predict who will get what!

Anyway I'm going for a Villa win! 2-1.  UTV