Sheffield Wednesday take on Plymouth Argyle this weekend.

Plymouth Argyle are approaching their date with Sheffield Wednesday with ‘excitement’, with boss Tom Cleverley having suggested the fixture is one they looked out for at the start of the campaign.

The Owls sit alongside Leicester City as perhaps the biggest scalp in the division and a number of managers have already spoken about the experience of visiting a stadium averaging an attendance of over 30,000 supporters this season. Wednesday’s home record has been poor of late and while punctuated by a 7-2 win over Bromley and a 5-0 win over AFC Wimbledon, they are otherwise winless in their seven league home outings.

Alongside their own battles in terms of fluency and availability, the Owls must find a way to battle beyond sides coming to Hillsborough with extra motivation and swollen away attendances.

Plymouth boss Tom Cleverley said: “It’s a game that always stands out in the fixture list. It’s a really historic stadium, a historic football club, and one that will have the same ambitions as us – to finish in the top six this season.

”It’s a very exciting fixture for us. We’re coming into it off the back of a really tough period in the league where we’ve faced all the teams in and around us, and this game concludes that run of fixtures, so it’s a really important game for us. We want to back up the win against Cambridge and the draw with Reading with a really positive result this weekend.”

New Owls boss Dave Challinor has overseen two cup outings. In terms of analysis of his Wednesday side, Cleverley admitted there was little to go on - though the Pilgrims will have some idea having faced his sides before.

He said: “We will go back to the memories of playing against his Stockport team last season and what they looked like in terms of style. Certainly, we go back and look at the Oldham game at the weekend, and a little bit on their Jersey Mike’s Trophy game – but that team was a hugely changed one.

”It’s a really interesting preparation when it’s a new manager. We’ve not got a lot to go off, so you do go into the archives a little bit, but the most important thing is to not lose sight of what we are. We are intense, aggressive, attacking, robust and resilient. We will look to impose our stamp on the game.”