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Sheffield Wednesday v Plymouth Argyle: Championship – live
By Rob Smyth,
3 hours ago
Brendan Galloway (right) inadvertently directs the ball home to double Sheffield Wednesday’s lead. Photograph: Nigel French/PA
5.41pm BST
Windass pushed the ball into the area for Musaba and kept running. Musaba wriggled to the byline and cut the ball back for Windass to finish first time at the near post. A nice goal to complete a superb performance from Windass and Wednesday.
5.40pm BST
GOAL! Sheff Wed 3-0 Plymouth (Windass 82)
Edit: as 3-0 wins go, this has been utterly emphatic.
5.39pm BST
80 min Almost a third for Wednesday, with Windass and Kobacki both having shots blocked desperately by Plymouth defenders. As 2-0 wins go, this has been utterly emphatic.
5.36pm BST
77 min Windass’s driven corner is headed vaguely towards goal and claimed comfortably by Hazard.
5.34pm BST
75 min: Double substitution for Wednesday Marvin Johnson and Olaf Kobacki replace Max Lowe and Djeidi Gassama.
5.33pm BST
73 min Musaba misses an excellent chance, sidefooting over from 15 yards after being teed up by Windass. It was a fine break from Wednesday, who moved the ball neatly across the field from right to left before Windass put Musaba through.
5.32pm BST
72 min Wednesday are in complete control, as they have been throughout. It would be absurd to judge Wayne Rooney on one game, so that’s exactly what will happen.
5.30pm BST
70 min Musaba moves infield from the left, beats three players during a thrilling run and shoots just wide from the edge of the area. That would have been a lovely goal.
5.29pm BST
Drinks break
Incidentally, at least two Plymouth players, Forshaw and Cissoko, have their names spelt incorrectly on the back of their shirts: Foreshaw and Issoko. Thank goodness Wayne Rooney didn’t sign Zanka from Brentford.
5.27pm BST
67 min: Plymouth substitution Freddie Issaka replaces Cissoko, who faded after a bright start.
Updated at 5.27pm BST
5.26pm BST
66 min Nothing much to report. Plymouth are huffing and puffing but without much success.
5.22pm BST
62 min Valery makes another buccaneering run down the right and is fouled by a combination of Galloway and Cissoko. Windass curls a brilliant free-kick into the corridor of uncertainty which bounces up and is headed over by Bernard at the far post. That was a better chance than the one a few moments ago.
5.19pm BST
60 min Wednesday take a corner short to Bannan, whose inviting cross is headed over by Bernard. Half a chance at best.
5.19pm BST
60 min Windass’s free-kick is hooked way crucially by Hardie at the far post. There was a player waiting behind him who would have had a good chance.
5.15pm BST
57 min: Triple substitution for Plymouth Ryan Hardie, Callum Wright and Bali Mumba replace Tijani, Bundu and Ogbeta.
5.15pm BST
56 min Lowe almost creates space before a shot despite being completely surrounded in the area. Plymouth are really struggling.
5.13pm BST
54 min Musaba misses a great chance to make it 3-0, volleying wide at the far post after an excellent run and cross from Valery. He’s been a constant threat on the right.
5.13pm BST
It was an unfortunate own goal from Brendan Galloway. Musaba (I think) lifted a routine cross towards the far post, where Jamal Lowe – who might have been offside – won the aerial ball too easily against Ogbeta. His header back across goal hit Galloway, who had no time to react, and flew past Hazard.
Updated at 5.14pm BST
5.11pm BST
GOAL! Sheff Wed 2-0 Plymouth (Galloway og 52)
Wednesday have picked up where they left off at half-time – and now they lead by two.
Updated at 5.32pm BST
5.07pm BST
48 min Two corners in quick succession for Wednesday. The first almost led to a chance for Musaba, who just couldn’t reach a header back across goal; the second is headed away at the near post.
5.06pm BST
47 min Valery picks out Bannan on the edge of the area with an excellent cutback. He mistimes his shot, which is blocked, then nails the rebound, which is also blocked.
Updated at 5.06pm BST
5.04pm BST
46 min Peep peep! Sheffield Wednesday begin the second half.
Wednesday lead after a dominant first-half performance against Wayne Rooney’s Plymouth™. Jamal Lowe scored the goal after fine work from the two central midfielders Barry Bannan and Svante Ingelsson. This is the first time they’ve played together in a competitive game. You wouldn’t know it; they complement each other beautifully and have totally dominated the midfield.
Plymouth have defended well, and Ibrahim Cissoko looks lively on the left wing. But overall they’ve been outplayed.
4.48pm BST
45+2 min Cissoko is booked for an absurd foul on Ingelsson (I think).
4.46pm BST
45 min Jamal Lowe is booked for flattening Galloway.
4.44pm BST
43 min At the other end, Whittaker curls over from the edge of the box after a good run from Cissoko. He’s been bright; the other Plymouth attackers have not.
4.44pm BST
42 min Musaba beats his man on the left and crosses low. The ball takes a slight touch off a defender and rolls towards Gassama, who slips in the act of shooting! That would have been a good chance had he not slipped.
4.41pm BST
40 min Here’s that goal from Jamal Lowe. The two passes to create it were terrific.
4.40pm BST
39 min Replays show it hit Forshaw’s arm, but it was down by his side so even with VAR that wouldn’t have been given.
4.40pm BST
38 min Ingelsson appeals for handball in the area after cutting back inside Forshaw. The referee, who didn’t have a great view, waves play on.
4.39pm BST
38 min Gassama runs through on goal and is denied superbly by Hazard. Turns out he was offside, but Hazard didn’t know that.
4.39pm BST
Bannan found Ingelsson in space on the right edge of the area with a penetrative pass. Ingelsson waved a beautiful low cross into the corridor of uncertainty with his left foot, and Lowe ran on to finish gleefully from six yards.
34 min Cissoko, who has been Plymouth’s most purposeful attacker, tries a one-two on the edge of the area but is crowded out.
4.32pm BST
31 min Bannan runs onto an inviting pass 22 yards out but slices his shot high and wide. Nothing educated about his left foot on that occasion.
4.31pm BST
30 min Wednesday are starting to apply some pressure again. Jamal Lowe’s shot is blocked, with the loose ball booted behind for a corner. Nothing comes of it.
4.29pm BST
28 min Wednesday win the ball high up the field, which is when they’ve been most dangerous. Valery’s early cross evades Jamal Lowe at the near post and is put behind for a corner by by Palsson.
4.27pm BST
26 min Free-kick to Plymouth on the left wing. Forshaw overhits it/goes for goal [delete depending on positivity accentuation levels] and Beadle makes an easy save.
4.24pm BST
24 min In fact Forshaw is fine; he just had a problem with his boots. As you were.
4.23pm BST
22 min Adam Forshaw has a problem and has walked off the field; he must have pulled something. Bad nes for Wayne Rooney, though the game has at least been more evenly contested in the last five minutes.
It’s a hot day so the referee is taking a drinks break.
4.19pm BST
18 min Plymouth are starting to get on the ball a little bit. Cissoko gets away from Valery in the area, thinks he’s won a corner and is entirely unimpressed when the referee gives a goalkick.
Updated at 4.37pm BST
4.18pm BST
17 min A rare Plymouth attack leads to their first corner. It bounces around the Wednesday area for a bit before being cleared.
4.17pm BST
16 min Musaba charges infield from the left, away from Palsson, but mistimes his shot through to Hazard.
4.14pm BST
13 min A deep corner is headed back by Iorfa and hooked over on the volley by Musaba. Not much of a chance.
4.13pm BST
12 min Musaba plays a short pass to find Ingelsson in space onthe left side of the area. He pokes a fairly tame shot that is pushed round the near post by Hazard. But it is all Wednesday.
4.09pm BST
9 min Wednesday are smothering Plymouth, with almost all of the play so far taking play in one half.
4.08pm BST
7 min “Rooney’s appointment in the summer was announced the same week as Kompany’s hiring by Bayern Munich, and both appointments were widely discussed as cases of ‘failing upward’,” says Phil Podolsky. “Which I suppose tells us that everything is relative. Personally speaking, I’d rather take a nice job in the West Country than having to answer to the kind of types who sit in the executive seats at the Allianz Arena. Whenever Bayern lose, the camera always zooms in on the facial reactions of former players who you’d rather admire from afar than have as your boss.”
4.06pm BST
5 min The corner is cleared, but Wednesday come again. They’ve made a superb start.
4.06pm BST
4 min Max Lowe cuts a sharp cross back towards Windass, whose blocked shot leads to Wednesday’s first corner.
4.04pm BST
2 min Wednesday have started well. Gassama appeals unsuccessfully for a penalty after going down near the byline. Gibson was up his backside but there’s no immediate evidence of a foul.
4.01pm BST
1 min Peep peep! Plymouth kick off from left to right as we watch.
3.56pm BST
A reminder of the teams , who are about to take the field on a lovely summer’s afternoon in Sheffield.
Both teams include five summer signings in the starting XI: four new, one returning for a second loan spell (Beadle and Gyabi).
Wednesday James Beadle, Yan Valery, Max Lowe, Jamal Lowe and Svante Ingelsson.
Plymouth Nathanael Ogbeta, Victor Palsson, Darko Gyabi, Muhamed Tijani, Ibrahim Cissoko.
Updated at 3.56pm BST
3.00pm BST
Preamble
The big man is back in town . Wayne Rooney’s first competitive game as Plymouth manager is a trip to Hillsborough to face Sheffield Wednesday. These teams finished 20th and 21st last season, though that only tells part of the story.
Sheffield Wednesday had a brilliant second half of the season under Danny Rohl; Plymouth got most of their points before Stephen Schumacher left for Stoke in December. His replacement Ian Foster struggled and was sacked in April, which is why Rooney has a new job.
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