Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Brentford: result and report
Championship · Tuesday 12 September 2017
Result
Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Brentford
Championship · Tuesday 12 September 2017, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Brentford: match report
Sheffield Wednesday beat Brentford 2-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 12 September 2017. The half-time score was 1-1.
Nico Yennaris opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Sheffield Wednesday's goals came from G. Hooper (45+1') and Ross Wallace (70'). Brentford scored through Nico Yennaris (9').
Discipline: Sheffield Wednesday received 3 yellow cards; Brentford received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Sheffield Wednesday were 10th on 9 points from 6 and Brentford 23rd on 3 points from 6. Sheffield Wednesday went on to finish that season 15th with 57 points, and Brentford 9th with 69.
Sheffield Wednesday lined up in a 4-4-2 and Brentford in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Adam Reach of Sheffield Wednesday (8.4), ahead of Tom Lees (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Sheffield Wednesday wins, 2 draws and 1 for Brentford.
Going into the match Sheffield Wednesday's last five read W-D-W-D-D and Brentford's D-D-L-D-L.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Nico Yennaris
- 45+1'Goal · G. Hooper
- 70'Goal · Ross Wallace
- 89'Yellow card · Jack Hunt
- 90+1'Yellow card · Jordan Rhodes
- 90+2'Yellow card · Kieran Lee
Head-to-head
Team news
Sheffield Wednesday line-up (4-4-2)
Keiren Westwood, Jack Hunt, Joost van Aken, Tom Lees, Adam Reach, David Jones, Kieran Lee, Barry Bannan, Ross Wallace, Steven Fletcher, Gary Hooper
Brentford line-up (4-2-3-1)
Daniel Bentley, Rico Henry, John Egan, Henrik Dalsgaard, Yoann Barbet, Nico Yennaris, Ollie Watkins, Ryan Woods, R. Sawyers, Josh Clarke, Neal Maupay