Another Saturday home game and today it's the might of the Owls that will be turning up to provide the opposition.
Like last season Sheffield Wednesday are pretty useful thanks to spending a bit of money on some quite impressive and fairly consistent performers. Possibly, therefore, they are the best side Reading will have played in the last couple of months so another "not going to be easy" war of attrition should be expected.
Reading will be missing Daniel Williams (suspension and not back until Boxing Day), Deniss Rakels, Stephen Quinn and John Swift while Yann Kermorgant and Anssi Jaakkola are still not fit enough to be considered. Given all those selection headaches expectation will be that Reading with field pretty much the same side that made a complete embarrassment of itself at Fulham last week with the only change being Liam Moore replacing Mr Williams. Therefore expect : Habsi, Gunter, Moore L, Blackett, McShane, Obita, Beerens, McCleary, Berg, Evans, Samuel to form the starting line up.
Sheffield Wednesday have a few players facing late fitness tests; Steven Fletcher, Glenn Loovens, Will Buckley and Ross Wallace so perhaps one or two of them maybe missing (well we can hope) The one player definitely out through suspension though is Fernando Forestieri
Providing entertainment with a whistle and a smile will be Cleveland's very own Tony Harrington
Previously with Mr Harrington
06 Feb 2016 > Reading 0-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
26 Sep 2015 > Burnley 1-2 Reading
01 Oct 2014 > Leeds United 0-0 Reading
Historically
Not really very many league games played with Wednesday since 1920. Only 18 games in total, pointing at just 9 seasons together in the same division, and no league games at all played before 1976. In fact 14 of those 18 games have been played since 2002 so Sheffield Wednesday have been reasonably regular opponents since then.
Reading's home record against them is usually a decisive one with only 1 game (last season's 1-1) ending all square. Before that Reading had won 5 and lost 3 of the previous 8 scoring 18 and conceding 7 in the process. Uninteresting facts to note from those games, so far, is that if Reading score they don't lose, also in those 9 games both teams have only scored in the same match on 2 occasions.
