The Owls beat Plymouth Argyle 3-0 on Saturday

Dave Challinor said he felt ‘amazing’ to win his first game but admitted that there was still loads of work to do.

Sheffield Wednesday beat Plymouth Argyle 3-0 on Saturday but the Pilgrims wasted a number of good chances, including a couple of sitters, which could have given the game a different look had they been taken.

But a deflected strike from Billy Mitchell and goals after the break from Davis Keillor-Dunn and Di’Shon Bernard sealed a first victory for Challinor, who admitted they rode their luck at times.

“It feels amazing,” Challinor said. “We'd love to have won last Sunday and won on Wednesday but when you go into your first home game, league game, you, I suppose, dream that it will look a certain way. It's never going to be going to be smooth but to come here, score three goals, keep a clean sheet, was at times, maybe luck more than judgment. Certainly in the first half with some of the opportunities we gave away.

“I am super happy for the players because they've really bought into what we've asked of them and tried to do, and some of it's outside of the comfort zones, and sometimes you need reinforcements for that to hit home. If they don't get on the back of that, then they never will.”

Challinor said that the performance was ‘okay’ and accepted Plymouth had some big chances to go in front. He continued: “I think we've got loads to do. I think you look at the first half, and I was really open with the players and asked them what they thought. Any game of football, you sit in the dressing room, you say we need to earn the right. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes to earn the right. Sometimes it takes 60 minutes. Sometimes you never earn the right.

“Plymouth are really good at asking questions of you, and in the first half, I don't think we dealt with them questions well enough at times, Probably got away with it a little bit at times. They were really honest about that and said that was the case.”

Two of Wednesday’s three goals came from set-pieces - something they have been working on. Challinor added: “The second-half was much better. I thought we dealt with their threats and then we were able to make the game look a little bit more like what we want it to look like. It hows the importance of set-pieces at any level, but especially at this level to score from two.”