Wednesday, February 12, 2020—200389 Sheffield Wednesday +110 (William Hill)
2:45 pm ET/11:45 am PT (INTERNATIONAL: iFollow, UK: SKY GO Extra, Sky Sports Red Button)—Luton Town Football Club (
7-3-21)
has L7 of 8 in the EFL Championship and sadly sit in 24th and last place with a horrific -29 GD (37 GF-66 GA) with the Hatters (
LWLLLL) scoring just 37 goals in 31 league games and allowing 66 heading into
Wednesday’s Week 32 match vs Sheffield Wednesday (12-8-11, 41 GF-34 GA) at Home at Kenilworth Road (Grass) in Luton, Bedfordshire and look destined for
relegation to League One.
Eleventh-place Sheffield Wednesday (DDLWLL) beat Luton Town, 1-0 at Home in the first meeting between these two clubs this season on Aug 20 with a Kadeem Harris (3 goals) goal at the 54-minute mark being the difference. Sheffield Wednesday is 12-10-8 vs Luton Town and in that last meeting, James Collins, Jacob Butterfield and the Hatters held the edge in ToP (55%) and Shots (11), but only put 2 on Target to the host Owls 3 with 1 in the net.
The Owls and Manager Garry Monk have fared pretty well on the Road of late, going 3-1-1 their L5—including a 1-0 Win over EPL side Brighton & Hove Albion in the FA Cup—despite an Injury to top-scorer Steven Fletcher (12 goals) with Jacob Murphy (4 goals), Josh Windass, Barry Bannan (7 assists) and Atdhe Nuhiu picking up the slack on the attack and GK Cameron Dawson solid in goal—Kieren Westwood has been nursing a Shoulder injury—although Blackburn did score on him 5 times in a 5-0 blasting on Jan 18 at Home.
With the Total here at 2½o -125 (
Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook), expectations of a Home goal for Collins and 2019 League One champions Luton Town is baked into the odds cake, as is a goal for Murphy and the Owls. But will there be a third? And can the Hatters possibly pull off the upset? I don’t think so here. The Hatters lack of firepower has been a real liability and Collins is in an apparent crisis of Confidence with just 1 score in his L8 matches while Sheffield Wednesday probably likes to play on
Wednesdays.
Luton Town 1 Sheffield Wednesday 2