sheffield wednesday’s run of recent form hit a highflying speed bump over night with a 2-1 loss to promotion-hopefuls, nottingham forest. a dexter blackstock (cool name) double, including the winner ten minutes from time, was enough to see off the owls and dent their survival hopes.
with an uneventful first quarter, blackstock opened the scoring from the penalty spot after darren pooter, for reasons beyond all sanity, raised his arm to black a shot from the aforementioned blackstock.
the rest of the first half was forest putting pressure on the owls’ defence, steadfastly held by lee grant. at the other end, the other lee, forest’s keeper, lee camp, was hardly troubled by attempts by tom soares and tommy spurr.
a scrappy second half saw wednesday score a scrappy goal as the in-form luke varney slotted home a etienne esajas cross to level the scores. it didn’t last long though as blackstock finished off a parry by grant to put forest back in front for good.
the loss brings wednesday back towards the relegation zone as some other results did not go their way. nottingham forest, at the other end, are now one point away from automatic promotion.