The Owls rescued a dramatic point on Saturday

Henrik Pedersen stopped short of using expletives when describing how he felt when Sheffield Wednesday conceded one minute into the second-half in their dramatic 2-2 draw at Huddersfield Town.

After a goalless first 45, Joe Taylor, who was earlier denied by an outstanding save from Joe Lumley, pounced on an error to put the hosts deservedly in front just 60 seconds after the break.

Pedersen had made a change at the interval, replacing Kieran Morrison with Davis Keillor-Dunn, but his half-time team-talk went up in smoke just moments after the restart.

When asked how he felt about that, the Dane stopped short of turning the air blue, smiling as he replied after a short pause: “Not very good,” before adding: “We spoke about how they (Huddersfield) will try to press hard in the beginning, so we don't need to play romantic football in our own half now. Now we want to start simple, come into the game because there was still 45 minutes - there is a lot of time to come back in this football game - and of course, then when you concede after one minute, then you think (shakes head and smiles). But then again, the reaction from this group was strong, and to play the last 35 minutes that we did, yeah, it's a step in the right direction.”

Some might disagree with Pedersen’s assessment of the second-half. Wednesday’s first shot did not come until the 58th minute. But to their credit, they rallied late on and forced an own goal before they were awarded a penalty in added-time when Liam Cooper took a boot to the head from Marcus Harness. Jamal Lowe then stepped up to emphatically finish in the 98th minute to secure an unlikely point.

Asked why it took to going 2-0 down to spark a reaction, Pedersen disagreed and told The Star: “I think the reaction was there from the second- half. Yeah, after the goal, we had not started before this action was there. But we work a lot with this, to open up the heart earlier. So, we have the courage to play more with more speed, with more tempo, with more forward mindset, with more positive mindset. We're working a lot with the dynamic of the run against the defending line for the opponent. I'm not happy with the first-half, but I'm happy that we saw as much of this in the second-half, especially the last 30-35 minutes.”