Sheffield Wednesday travel to Middlesbrough on Saturday aiming to continue their positive start to the 2014/15 season. The Owls have taken 5 points from 3 games and had they managed to keep Millwall at bay for 30 seconds longer on Tuesday evening they would be joint top of the Championship table at this point.
Stuart Gray remains without the services of midfielder Kieran Lee due to a groin injury and fellow midfielder Sam Hutchinson may join Lee on the sidelines after he limped out of the midweek game during the second half.
Stevie May is still looking for his first goal following his recent move to Hillsborough and will be hoping to keep his place alongside Atdhe Nuhiu but with Wednesday struggling for goals Gary Madine will be hoping to get a change from the start.
Middlesbrough will be looking to in-form new striker Kike to fire them to a third league win but they do have a couple of issues at the back with experienced defender Jonathan Woodgate and fellow stopper Ben Gibson both expected to be facing lengthy injury lay-offs.
Boro have been pursuing young Chelsea striker Patrick Bamford to increase their attacking options this week but thankfully for Wednesday it appears as though any prospective deal will not come to fruition before the weekends match.
Wednesday conceded for the first time in four matches when Millwall equalised in the 5th minute of injury time at Hillsborough on Saturday. The Owls will be hoping to make it two wins from two on the road this season having kicked off with any away win at Brighton on the opening day.
Middlesbrough opened up with a home win against Birmingham and also won at Bolton in midweek. In between those two games they were defeated at Leeds though the defeat was a hash one with the home side having scored a late winner after Boro had what seemed a perfectly good goal chalked off by the officials in the first half.
The Owls have never won at the Riverside stadium, losing on six occasions. Last seasons 1-1 draw was the first point that Wednesday have won at Boro since they moved grounds in the mid-nineties.