We face
Sheffield Wednesday tonight at the DW Stadium in what is surely a must win
game. Six points and a five goal swing away from climbing out of the relegation
zone it’s surely now time to throw the shackles off and go for it.
A seven game
winless run at the DW is very worrying and this needs addressing, but again turning
to the goals scored column, we are the divisions worst ‘home’ scorers with just
12 in 13 games, goalless in four of those games and scoring more than once in
just two, Cardiff and Charlton.
Something
needs to change.
Fortunately
Sheffield Wednesday are in the midst of a bad run themselves, losing four of
their last five Championship games and took an absolute drubbing off Blackburn –
5-0 at Hillsborough – last time out, though they do sit 10th and
just four points off a play-off spot.
Latics will
have both Kieffer Moore and Joffy Gelhardt available following injury and
illness and it will be interesting to see if either or both make the starting
line-up.
For
Wednesday, Gary Monk will be hoping to turn cup form into League form and get
back on the promotion trail. Serial Latics bogey man Steven Fletcher is out
injured but transfer target Jordan Rhodes could get a rare run out for the
Owls.
Monk has
never lost a league game against the Latics and there’s never been a draw
between the two clubs, interesting.
The referee
for tonight’s game is David Webb, who’s been a lucky ref for the Latics down
the years, you can get an insight on Webb with our ‘Meet The Ref’ article by
clicking HERE.
Possible Latics line-up:
Marshall
Byrne,
Kipre, Naismith, Robinson,
Morsy,
Williams, Evans, Lowe
Moore,
Garner.
Podcast Predictions:
Barry 1-1
Si 1-1
Young Adam
0-2
Paul 1-0
Old Adam 2-0
Grab a listen to the Big Preview with
Owls fan Kev Carpenter on this week’s Podcast, just click play below:
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