Sheffield Wednesday make the trip to Huddersfield Town this weekend.

Sheffield Wednesday may well head into a greater than usual atmosphere at Huddersfield Town this weekend after the Terriers announced a section of its ground had sold out.

The Owls are hoping to bounce positively back into League One football after three weeks away, with back-to-back Jersey Mike’s Trophy wins arriving during an extended international break. The two clubs share both a history and an ambition to be in the promotion mix come the end of the season.

Huddersfield confirmed that the ‘Cowshed’ of 4,000 or more supporters was sold out heading into the clash, though further tickets remained available throughout the ground. Wednesday’s allocation of nearly 2,400 fans has been sold out entirely.

Speaking to club media, Wednesday boss Henrik Pedersen said on his side’s progress so far: “Oh, it’s a big question. I think from the results side, it has been a good, very, very solid beginning, with two points on average. From the playing side, I think we had a really strong beginning, and then I think we lost a little bit of the identity. And this is what we want to have back again and train really, really hard for. But overall, a good beginning, but we are still very early in the journey.”

On paper at least, a trip to Huddersfield will provide one of the sterner tests in a League One campaign, with the West Yorkshire side having developed a style and identity under boss Martin Drury, who stepped up from the club’s backroom staff to take control back from Liam Manning, who left the club initially on compassionate leave back in March. It is the instilling of a uniformed identity throughout the club that Wednesday will be looking to build moving forward.

“We have a big dream for this,” Pedersen said. “This is fundamental to build something big, and we are still early in the journey. But both clubs, you have seen if you’re building year by year, then you will get good teams, you will get a clear style of playing. And we have to speed up our process because we are still early in the process, but we are working every day for all our process to get this clarity, this clear purpose, this consistency in all what we are doing for our team, for our individual players, for everything we are doing.

“We want to rebuild, or we want to build bigger, bigger clarity for our game model, for our style of play, for our identity. So this is where we are using all our energy, to get this clarity for how we want to press, how we want to be aggressive in our pressing, how we want to be when we are winning the ball, how we want to be when we are losing the ball, and of course how we generally are on the ball. So identity, identity, and identity.”

Drury, a Huddersfield lad who spent some time as a player at Wednesday in his younger years, leaned into the need for a rising atmosphere at the ACCU Stadium and challenged the home supporters to bring the noise on Saturday.

He said: “We've had five away games including the cup game, and we've lost one of those five, and we've picked up points in every other game, so I've been really pleased with the players that I've challenged. We've been challenged around picking points up away from home, I think the players have responded to that really, really well, and the fact now that we get to come back and play in front of our own fans and our own stadium, where we know they're like a 12th man for us on most occasions.

“Hopefully tomorrow night we can have a good atmosphere, then that will lead us nicely into the weekend, in what poses to be a really tough game and an exciting game for us against Sheffield Wednesday, again in front of our fans, so hopefully we can get this place rocking on Saturday.”