Sheffield Wednesday host the Championship’s form side, Fulham, on Saturday.
Jos Luhukay hopes Sheffield Wednesday can build on their three straight victories and carry that momentum into next season.
The Owls have benefitted from the returns of Tom Lees, Barry Bannan and Fernando Forestieri in recent weeks, and are looking up the table rather than down it as they enter the campaign’s final six matches.
Automatic promotion hopefuls Fulham are next up at Hillsborough, however, where they will seek to extend the 18-match unbeaten run which has propelled them to third in the standings.
Despite their recent improvement, Wednesday will be far from full strength against Fulham, and won’t be now until the start of next season at the very earliest, after Joost van Aken – and potentially Keiren Westwood – was added to a list of long-term absentees comprising Morgan Fox, Sam Hutchinson, Kieran Lee, Sean Clare, Ross Wallace and Steven Fletcher.
They should, however, have Daniel Pudil fit again after he missed Monday’s 3-1 win at Sunderland. And while Jordan Thorniley impressed after replacing Pudil’s replacement, Morgan Fox, eight minutes in at the Stadium of Light, the Czech is perhaps slight favourite to start against Fulham.
Wednesday are likely to remain unchanged elsewhere, after Luhukay deemed Forestieri not yet fit enough to make his first XI at Thursday’s press conference.
Here’s how the Dutchman’s side should look:
Can Sheffield Wednesday end the campaign on a high?
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