“We must’ve run over quite few black cats…” – Garry Monk believes things will turn for Sheffield Wednesday
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The Owls picked up 10 points over the course of a few days last week, starting with the 1-0 win over Bournemouth which was followed by a huge boost as they successfully appealed their 12-point reduction and had it halved.
Wednesday probably deserved three points against the Lions rather than just the one, having eight shots on target compared to the visitors’ zero, but they couldn’t get a lucky break as Bartosz Białkowski kept them out time and time again.
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Hide AdSpeaking after the game, Monk said, “We set out what we intended to do and that was to put them under pressure and we could have scored in the first couple of minutes.
“We’ve gone on to dominate the game, Joe hasn’t had a save to make, and the only thing missing was a goal… How we haven’t hit the back of the net I will never know. Their goalkeeper has had a great game so credit to him. But on another day we win that game and we win it comfortably.”
And he went on to say, “We’ve had a 10-point week, two clean sheets, a win and a draw and we’re off the bottom of the division so that has to been seen as a real positive.
“I feel sorry for the players in that changing room, though, they have given absolutely everything today and deserved a win.
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Hide Ad“But it will come, it will turn, it might take a lucky goal, a scruffy goal or something like that and we have to keep that belief.”
Now the Owls have a couple of weeks to get everybody back fit again prior to their trip to Preston North End on November 21, with Liam Palmer and Callum Paterson the only two that will be leaving on international duty in the coming days.
The Scots will face Serbia on Thursday for a place at the 2020 European Championships.