All hands to the pump as stricken City face some smarting Owls
Not many teams will have felt quite as glum as City at around 5pm on Saturday, but it’s fair to say Sheffield Wednesday would be one of them.
Danny Rohl’s men went into their home match with Watford with a bang average record of four wins, three draws, and five losses, and were taking on a Watford team flirting with a play-off place, so they knew it would be tough going.
However, I’m guessing not too many at Hillsborough were expecting a 6-2 defeat, and Rohl afterwards pulled no punches in stating that his side had no chance against Norwich if they kept making errors in that fashion.
Fortunately for Rohl, the treatment room at Colney currently looks like a particularly gruesome deleted scene from Platoon, with groaning bodies strewn everywhere. It’s anybody’s guess as to what combination of kids, half-crocks, and not-yet-settled summer signings from abroad Johannes Hoff Thorup can patch up and cobble together for tonight, but the fact that they got so close to getting three points on Saturday despite the absence of so many key players gives us hope.
Wednesday have mostly used a 3-4-2-1 system this season, although on Saturday they switched to a 4-2-3-1. Given the success of that experiment, I’d hazard a guess they will either move back to 3-4-2-1 or throw the dice on an entirely new formation.
