This is Sheffield Wednesday’s best performance in the League Cup since making it to the semi-finals in 2001-02, losing to eventual winners Blackburn Rovers.
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Before all that it’s off to the Britannia Stadium for tonight’s Capital One Cup quarter final where I, family and friends will be in the away end while my partner Sophie and her dad, who is a massive Stoke fan, will be in the home end with more friends.
Carlos Carvalhal’s side have eliminated Newcastle United and Arsenal on their way to the last eight, and Hughes feels the Championship outfit’s confidence means they could cause his team problems.
“We won’t underestimate Sheffield Wednesday in any way, shape or form, if you look at their progression in the competition they have beaten two Premier League sides already”, Hughes said. If we could do the same on Sunday, we’d definitely get first on the BBC highlights show. Wedensday have a strong side with Nuhiu, Foresteiri, Wallace, Hooper and Bannan the latter three have plenty of Premier League experience and Wednesday played really well against Arsenal in the last round.
Paul Tisdale has been at Exeter for nine years and likes them to get the ball down and play, in fact he’s got a very similar philosophy to Rob Page.
I think this will be a good game, tough to call here and I am going to take both teams to score here. We’ve got to be ready and not be surprised by anything they can produce. “Jack will play, we’re missing Shay Given at the moment”.
But on Monday, manager Mark Hughes revealed: “Peter has got a slight hamstring pull, so isn’t available”.
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“Phil Bardsley missed the weekend because he got a bang on his calf in training but hopefully he might be OK”.
