West Bromwich Albion vs Sheffield Wednesday Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

West Bromwich Albion

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West Bromwich Albion will be looking for an improved result here following a 2-1 Championship defeat last time out to Plymouth Argyle.

In that game, West Bromwich Albion had 69% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for West Bromwich Albion was Jayson Molumby (74'). Plymouth Argyle had 8 shots on goal with 4 on target. Ryan Hardie (77', 88') scored for Plymouth Argyle.

Fixtures with West Bromwich Albion have tended to be exciting affairs lately with a lot of goalmouth action expected. Over their past six games alone, the sum of 21 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 9 of those being chalked up by West Bromwich Albion.

Looking at the pre-match facts, West Bromwich Albion:

• have not registered a win against Sheffield Wednesday in their last 2 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 10 league matches at home. A very good run at home.

Sheffield Wednesday

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In their last game, Sheffield Wednesday drew 1-1 in the Championship tie with Luton Town.

In that match, Sheffield Wednesday managed 68% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for Sheffield Wednesday was Michael Smith (60'). For their opponents, Luton Town had 8 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Alfie Doughty (31') was the scorer for Luton Town.

The numbers tell their own story, and Sheffield Wednesday have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 9 goals overall. Defensively, Sheffield Wednesday just haven’t been too solid at all. It will be interesting to see whether or not that trend can be continued on here.

Going into this encounter, Sheffield Wednesday have left without a victory over West Bromwich Albion when having played them away from home in the previous 5 matches in the league. They really have not been travelling well at all.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 29/12/2018 shows us that West Bromwich Albion have won 3 of these and Sheffield Wednesday 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A total of 17 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 9 of them for The Baggies and 8 belonging to The Owls. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The last league fixture featuring the two was Championship match day 7 on 28/09/2024 which ended up with the score at Sheffield Wednesday 3-2 West Bromwich Albion.

On that occasion, Sheffield Wednesday managed 30% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The scorers were Josh Windass (23') and Anthony Musaba (86').

At the other end, West Bromwich Albion got 12 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Darnell Furlong (9' Own goal), Josh Maja (65') and Alex Mowatt (84') scored.

The match was refereed by Ben Toner.

🗞️ Team News: West Bromwich Albion

There is just a single fitness concern for the West Bromwich Albion boss Tony Mowbray to contend with thanks to an otherwise robust group. Daryl Dike (Achilles tendon surgery) misses out.

It’s our opinion that The Baggies will probably use the 4-4-2 formation, utilising Joe Wildsmith, Darnell Furlong, Mason Holgate, Torbjørn Heggem, Callum Styles, Tom Fellows, John Swift, Alex Mowatt, Mikey Johnston, Grady Diangana and Jed Wallace.

ℹ️ Team News: Sheffield Wednesday

From a largely available group of players, there is only a single fitness problem for the Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Röhl to be concerned about. Akin Famewo (Muscle injury) misses out for this game.

There’s a good chance that The Owls seem likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 formation, giving starts to James Beadle, Yan Valery, Michael Ihiekwe, DiShon Bernard, Max Lowe, Barry Bannan, Shea Charles, Callum Paterson, Josh Windass, Djeidi Gassama and Jamal Lowe.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Sheffield Wednesday will have to perform well to score against this West Bromwich Albion outfit who will likely gain the upper hand.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a hard-fought 1-0 winning score for West Bromwich Albion when the referee blows for full-time.

Hoping for a good game.

📚 ⚽️ What are the top odds for this match?

Regarding the latest bookmaker odds on the 90 minute result market, the win for West Bromwich Albion is available for 2.1, backing a drawn result is 3.3 & putting your money on the win for Sheffield Wednesday comes in at 3.3. They are the best of the prices available at this very moment.

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Renata Leite, 15:01 04/02/2025