Key Sheffield Wednesday figure shares mixed fitness update on influential attacking duo

Darren Moore has revealed that Josh Windass may return for Sheffield Wednesday in opposition to Exeter subsequent weekend, though Lee Gregory might not characteristic till later within the month.

The attacking pair each missed out as a toothless Owls facet have been held to a 0-0 draw in opposition to Derby County at Pride Park on Saturday afternoon.

And, speaking to the Yorkshire Post after the sport, Moore gave a blended replace on the pair as consideration turns to the fixture in opposition to the Grecians subsequent weekend.

“We’ll hopefully get him (Windass) up and out onto the pitch this week. Hopefully he can proceed to make strides and he’ll be alright for subsequent week. He had a little bit of a pressure and so we’d like that to settle it down. He’s within the technique of that settling down so hopefully he’ll be again on the market and we’ll be able to assess him within the week.

“We don’t anticipate Lee’s damage to be that lengthy, he’s one other we’ll check out this week and we’ll do a full evaluation on him, however we undoubtedly anticipate him again effectively earlier than the 12 months is out.”

Wednesday may have gone high of the desk with a win in opposition to Derby after each Plymouth and Ipswich dropped factors on Friday night time.

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The verdict

Even although Moore is working with a really huge squad, there are some key gamers that he would’ve have needed to lose and Windass particularly falls into that bracket as he has loads of high quality at this degree.

However, as talked about, there’s power in depth and while the attackers didn’t shine in opposition to the Rams, that was all the time going to be a troublesome recreation.

Now, consideration turns to Exeter as Wednesday look to increase their unbeaten run within the league which stretches again to early October.

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