Sheffield Wednesday will look to give departing Chairman Milan Mandaric a positive result when they host Cardiff at Hillsborough on Saturday. Mandaric, who bought the Owls when they were on the brink of financial ruin, has sold the club to a Thai business consortium for around £30M and he will address the crowd prior to kick-off.
Stuart Gray has new options available to him following a busy transfer deadline day. Striker Segiu Bus, defender Marnick Vermijl and midfielders Lewis McGugan and Filipe Melo will all hope to be involved.
Jose Semedo missed last weekends defeat at Reading and remains a doubt and central defender Glenn Loovens will serve a suspension having reached 10 yellow cards for the season.
Cardiff are without Anthony Pilkington and goalkeeper David Marshall but the visiting team could feature former Wednesday loan favourite Kenwyne Jones up front. The Welsh side are also likely to include Eoin Doyle following the strikers deadline day move from Chesterfield.
Cardiff have lost their last 3 Championship matches though they were all against promotion chasing sides, Wednesday have only taken 1 point from their last 3 matches.
The Owls poor home form has seen them win only 3 out of 14 league games at Hillsborough while Cardiff have an equally poor away record with 1 win and 6 draws from their 14 matches on their travels.
Wednesday were defeated 2-1 at Cardiff when the two teams last met in September.