Di’Shon Bernard starred in a resolute defence as Sheffield Wednesday defied heavy Bristol Metropolis strain to earn a battling 0-0 draw within the Championship.
The centre-back was excellent in a recreation of few clear possibilities, which led to frustration for Liam Manning’s Robins and aid for the massed ranks of travelling Wednesday followers.
Metropolis had the higher of the exchanges for a lot of the match, however failed to show their possession into sufficient clear alternatives in opposition to Danny Rohl’s well-organised group.
Each managers made two modifications, Metropolis bringing in Cameron Pring and Joe Williams, whereas Wednesday’s beginning line-up included Bernard, again from suspension, and Anthony Musaba.
Neither aspect may create a lot in a gap 20 minutes that ended with Jason Knight taking pictures vast from Metropolis’s first worthwhile alternative.
Each groups tried to construct by midfield, however couldn’t summon up the correct last move.
Defender Zak Vyner introduced the primary save from Owls goalkeeper James Beadle with a low Twenty seventh-minute shot and moments later fired vast from a greater likelihood created by Anis Mehmeti’s cross from the left.
Metropolis have been utilizing the total width of the pitch with Mehmeti attacking down the left and Yu Hirakawa posing issues for Wednesday’s defence down the correct.
Mehmeti virtually broke the impasse within the thirty fourth minute discovering himself unmarked 10 yards out and bringing a flying save from Beadle with a agency, well-placed header.
The house aspect have been more and more dominant, however couldn’t make their strain inform as Scott Twine fired wildly vast with an bold Fortieth-minute volley from distance.
The sample stayed the identical in the beginning of the second half, with Metropolis’s Joe Williams having a shot blocked for a nook.
Wednesday have been struggling to characteristic as an attacking pressure, however with Bernard strongly marshalling a stable defence, they have been arduous to penetrate.
Each side had penalty appeals turned down and every supervisor made modifications across the hour mark.
Nonetheless the targets refused to return as Knight headed over for Metropolis and Barry Bannan shot vast from Wednesday’s finest likelihood within the seventieth minute.
That effort introduced the travelling followers behind the aim to life and their group responded by forcing two corners in fast succession.
For the primary time, the guests loved a spell of pressurising the house defence and Michael Smith headed straight at Metropolis goalkeeper Max O’Leary from one other Bannan nook.
But it surely was Metropolis who created the final, and among the finest, possibilities of the sport in stoppage time when substitutes Nahki Wells and Mark Sykes mixed just for the latter to see his shot from a slim angle saved by Beadle’s outstretched leg.
The managers
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