Championship

WEDNESDAY FEELING NOT SO LUHUKAY

by
The LeaguePaper Team
25 February 2018

Match Verdict

STAR MAN
ROBERT SNODGRASS Aston Villa
SHEFFIELD Wednesday must feel like demanding a recount. Did this game really finish 4-2 to Aston Villa?
Embarrassed for 45 one-sided minutes, Steve Bruce would have been elated to escape with a point at the break. But for some profligate finishing and sheer, blind, luck, the promotion-chasers would have been marmalised by an Owls side that spectacularly vindicated Jos Luhukay’s decision to deploy two up top.
Defeat was incredibly harsh on a home side full of verve and invention, the last-ditch nature of it even more so.
This, thou...

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