This weekend’s Hillsborough clash between Sheffield Wednesday and Plymouth Argyle may well be billed as ‘El Crockico’ - with both sides juggling a vast number of injuries.

The Owls have a list of possible returnees in their number, with important figures Joe Lumley, Liam Cooper, Billy Mitchell and Louie Barry all in touch-and-go status for involvement. A wider number are either injured or being managed, with Max Lowe the latest first team player to go down.

But Wednesday’s problems are not unique and the Pilgrims will head north with a raft of big players out. Eight-goal top scorer Bim Pepple will miss out with a short-term calf problem, while former club record signing Michael Baidoo - once linked with a switch to Hillsborough - is out for a month.

Plymouth boss Tom Cleverley confirmed that club captain Joe Edwards, Julio Pleguezuelo, Matty Sorinola and 17-year-old starlet Jared Rendle would also sit out the S6 trip through injury - while there will be late fitness tests for influential defender Alex Mitchell and midfielder Tyreeq Bakinson. Bakinson played 42 times for Wednesday across two years, the second of which was spent on loan with Charlton Athletic.

What is clear is that Plymouth will miss gnarled figures at S6. Cleverley said: “Pleggy (Pleguezuelo) and Joe Edwards, those guys will be missing for about a month. Two senior players and in stadiums like this (Hillsborough) you want as much as experience as you possibly can, but we will find the solutions.

“Some of our young players, some of our fringe players were outstanding on Tuesday. We are a small squad heading up to Hillsborough but we are not short of quality and I'm excited by that. It's a bit of a siege mentality, roll your sleeves up, bite down on the gum shield. We may have Caleb Watts returning, he will train today so that will be a boost for us, and into next week we should have Matty (Sorinola) a lot closer, so not all doom and gloom.”