Sheffield Wednesday star who left for £0 is now outscoring Smith & Bannan

With only one win picked up from their final 5 Championship video games, Danny Rohl‘s Sheffield Wednesday proceed to fall in need of the second-tier playoff spots.

If the Owls had been to string collectively a patch of optimistic outcomes, they may nonetheless leap into these coveted prime six spots, with the South Yorkshire outfit solely three factors off Blackburn Rovers who maintain that ultimate place within the playoff image.

For now, Rohl will simply should make do with how inconsistent his facet may be, with the potential for promotion to nonetheless be on the playing cards if a variety of his prime performers activate the fashion between now and the shut of the marketing campaign.

The numbers behind Sheffield Wednesday’s prime performers

The obvious place to start out right here is with prime scorer Josh Windass who’s having fun with one in all his best seasons so far donning Wednesday blue and white.

Windass has already surpassed his second-tier objective tally from final season this time round, with the previous Rangers man now as much as ten league strikes from 29 video games, in comparison with a lesser complete of six when Wednesday had been battling towards the drop.

A type of targets even noticed the entertaining 31-year-old rating from inside his personal half on New 12 months’s Day, with Rohl hopeful that extra moments of magic like this audacious strike from his quantity 11 can see the Owls sneak into playoff rivalry.

He can even be effectively conscious that different attackers must step on top of things too, with Michael Smith one other face that has been a supply of targets this marketing campaign up to now.

Regardless of being regularly linked with a move away from South Yorkshire, the skilled EFL head boasts a powerful document of seven goals and four assists from solely ten league begins.

There may be additionally Barry Bannan in fact who’s a spectacular star on his day with four goals from 29 league encounters, however the Scotsman might now face a very long time out on the sidelines owing to harm.

So as to add additional insult to harm, there may be one attacker who left Hillsborough in the summertime and he’s now outscoring each Bannan and Smith in League One environment.

The ex-Sheffield Wednesday man now outscoring Smith and Bannan

Throughout Wednesday’s current promotion heroics as much as the second tier, the aforementioned Smith was typically helped up prime by an equally lethal accomplice.

Lee Gregory now finds himself again on the degree the place he shone with the Owls and it is as if the 36-year-old has by no means been away judging by his deadly marketing campaign so far with Mansfield City.

Wanting on the desk above, Gregory is ageing like a high-quality wine underneath Nigel Clough’s wing on the Stags, with a elegant ten targets coming his means from 20 League One encounters.

Amazingly, which means the veteran centre-forward has already matched his 2022/23 output for Wednesday from 18 fewer clashes, while additionally managing to raised each Smith and Bannan’s 2024/25 numbers when lining up with confidence at Subject Mill.

He was the division’s leading goalscorer through the fledgling levels of the season, with the “outstanding” 36-year-old – as he was as soon as heralded by Rohl for his perspective behind the scenes – persevering with to point out there’s life in his legs nonetheless after strolling away from Hillsborough on a free switch.

It is unlikely that Wednesday maintain many lingering regrets over the way in which Gregory departed the membership although, contemplating the ageing striker was in dire want of game-time.

The German will simply pray there’s sufficient in his group’s tank to problem for the playoffs for the remainder of the marketing campaign, while Gregory goals to maintain placing in some prime goalscoring shows within the division under.

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