In the fight for automatic promotion to the Championship this season, Sheffield Wednesday find themselves in a particularly impressive run of League One form, having recently broken into the top two after remaining hot on the heels of Plymouth Argyle and Ipswich Town in the first half of the term.
Darren Moore’s side have now gone unbeaten in their last 15 third-tier matches, dating back to their last meeting with Saturday’s opponents as they fell to a narrow 2-1 defeat on the South coast at the beginning of October, with the Owls winning five and drawing five of the following 10 league matches in the lead up to Christmas.
They then built on that run with five further victories on the bounce in League One, and six in all competitions, having firstly beaten Fleetwood Town and Port Vale before leapfrogging Ipswich
with a 5-0 thrashing of Cambridge United after the turn of the year and advancing to the fourth round of the FA Cup with a memorable 2-1 victory over Premier League high-flyers Newcastle United at Hillsborough courtesy of a Josh Windass brace.
Having gained further momentum from that eye-catching triumph, the Owls would further strengthen their claim for a top-two finish with victories in their last two league outings following the Newcastle contest, beating Wycombe Wanderers and Fleetwood
Town away and at home respectively, before the Owls again met the latter at Hillsborough in the FA Cup fourth round last weekend, settling for a draw on that occasion as a Josh Earl own goal drew them level and forced a replay.
Before they travel to the West coast for that replay on Tuesday, Moore’s men will turn their attention back to the fight at the top of League One, and now leading third-placed Ipswich by
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four points and only trailing Plymouth by three, with a game in hand on each, they can move into pole position with what would be an 18th third-tier win of the season on Saturday.
They meet a Pilgrims side who will aim to extend their lead at the summit of the division, after making an important return to winning ways last time out in the midst of an unbeaten run of their own.
Steven Schumacher’s men have called top spot home for the majority of the campaign thus far and have maintained that position with a streak of eight league matches without a defeat, with their total of three third-tier losses all season only matched by Saturday’s hosts
