Sheffield Wednesday welcome Plymouth Argyle to Hillsborough this weekend.

Sheffield Wednesday won’t be the only side facing availability issues when Plymouth Argyle come to Hillsborough this weekend.

The Owls will be without a host of players, with loanee forward Mason Burstow having been added to the injury list in the last week. Kieran Morrison is away on international duty with Northern Ireland, with Sean Fusire (Zimbabwe), Jordi Liongola (Burundi) and Will Grainger (Wales u19s) also absent.

Wednesday will enter the clash knowing a win would draw them level on points with the fifth-placed Pilgrims, who have one win in their last four league matches. Only table-topping Huddersfield Town have won more away points than their 13.

Asked on his side’s injury landscape heading into the weekend, Plymouth boss Tom Cleverley said: “It has not been an easy week from that side of things. We are picking up the pieces of what was a difficult Sunday for everyone in the technical, physical, medical teams. We are concerned with a few of them. We have had a good result tonight and whatever team we take to Sheffield on Saturday we will have full confidence that it can go and do a job and get a win.”

Among the absentees will be five-goal forward Bim Pebble, key man centre-half Alex Mitchell and Ghana international midfielder Michael Baidoo, who was linked with a move to Wednesday in the summer of 2024 before he made a club-record switch to Home Park reportedly worth £1.5m. Baidoo has been recovering from a serious injury and has hit a setback having made a comeback from the bench in their FA Cup win over Alvechurch over the weekend.

Cleverley continued: “Major doubts for this weekend for Mitch and Bim, and Michael has unfortunately had a bit of a recurrence of the hamstring injury. Not as serious, nowhere near as serious, but a player we were all excited about to see more of, unfortunately won’t be with us. So Bim and Michael, yes (will be ruled out). Mitchell has got a real appetite to play the game but we have concerns around that.

“It has been a tough week but we find solutions, not excuses, and as you can see we have some good strength in depth and you might see few of the under-18s who performed so well in the squad on Saturday as a reward at a place like Hillsborough.”