Sheffield Wednesday man and Norwich City target gets league-wide praise for eye-catching performance against Portsmouth

The 21-year-old former Manchester City youth scored with two stunning strikes to rescue a point for Wednesday in what was a remarkable opening day clash.

And that effort notched up the Owls’ first ‘team of the week’ gong of the campaign in a side that is decided purely on statistics offered by data-crunching website whoscored.

The afternoon tripled Dele-Bashiru’s senior goals tally and makes good on a push between himself anf the club’s caching staff to become more of a threat in the opposition half.

He said: “Throughout pre-season I’ve been working on my shooting and I’ve had a couple of efforts from long range and not really caught them sweet but in training I have done.

“It’s definitely given me more confidence going into the rest of the season. I just have to stay confident, keep taking shots and hopefully I can carry on getting goals.”

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Discussing conversations around the midfielder’s future amid interest from the Championship, Owls boss Darren Moore said: “They’re ongoing.

“The good thing for Fiz is that he’s continuing to train and play games as he is. He’s not affected by it all, he’s such a wonderful and placid man and he goes about his work effortlessly.

“I really feel that the contractual position that he’s in will take care of itself and should we reach that mutual decision we’ll all be too pleased to see him put pen to paper and carry on from here.”

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