📏 Form Guide

Preston North End

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Preston North End are hoping to win again following a 1-0 Championship victory vs Hull City.

In that game, Preston North End managed 45% possession and 8 shots at goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Preston North End was Brad Potts (60'). Hull City got 10 shots at goal with 4 on target.

Fewer than three goals per match were recorded in 5 of the last 6 fixtures where Preston North End have been involved. With regard to the goal split in this period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 5 and Preston North End managed the sum of 6. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this next game, however.

Leading up to this clash, Preston North End:

• have not registered a win against Sheffield Wednesday in their previous 2 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 5 league matches at home.

Sheffield Wednesday

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Last time out, Sheffield Wednesday drew 3-3 in the Championship match with Middlesbrough.

In that match, Sheffield Wednesday managed 43% possession and 16 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. For Sheffield Wednesday, the scorers were Svante Ingelsson (47'), Josh Windass (54') and Yan Valery (61'). On the other side, Middlesbrough got 7 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Ben Doak (5') and Finn Azaz (15', 30') scored for Middlesbrough.

The stats don’t lie, and Sheffield Wednesday have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 7 goals in all. At the back, Sheffield Wednesday just haven’t been too solid at all.

Going into this encounter, Sheffield Wednesday are unbeaten in their previous 4 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 08/07/2020 tells us that Preston North End have won 3 of these games and Sheffield Wednesday 2, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

A sum of 10 goals were produced between them in these games, with 6 of them for The Lilywhites and 4 netted by The Owls. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.67.

The last league clash between the two was Championship match day 19 on 07/12/2024 and the score finished Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Preston North End.

That day, Sheffield Wednesday managed 55% possession and 13 shots at goal with 4 on target. Their only player to score was Michael Smith (76').

Preston North End had 14 shots on goal with 7 on target. Emil Riis (14') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Bobby Madley.

ℹ️ Team News: Preston North End

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Preston North End manager Paul Heckingbottom to be concerned about from an otherwise complete squad. Josh Seary (Knee injury) is sidelined.

In all likelihood, The Lilywhites should use a 3-4-1-2 formation for this one and select Freddie Woodman, Jordan Storey, Jack Whatmough, Andrew Hughes, Brad Potts, Alistair McCann, Ben Whiteman, Kaine Kesler-Hayden, Sam Greenwood, Milutin Osmajic and M. Frøkjær-Jensen.

📰 Team News: Sheffield Wednesday

Owing to an otherwise full-strength squad, there is only the sole fitness problem for the Sheffield Wednesday boss Danny Röhl to be concerned with. Akin Famewo (Muscle injury) won’t be playing here.

There’s a good chance that The Owls seem most likely to make use of a 3-4-2-1 system, starting James Beadle, Dominic Iorfa, Gabriel Otegbayo, Max Lowe, Yan Valery, Shea Charles, Barry Bannan, Marvin Johnson, Josh Windass, Djeidi Gassama and Jamal Lowe.

💡 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Sheffield Wednesday and Preston North End may well end up cancelling each other out here.

It could well end in a draw. We therefore see a hard-fought 1-1 draw at the conclusion of the game.

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Peter Guest, 12:00 29/12/2024