Pair close on Sheffield Wednesday return - Coventry City man's injury 'could put you off your dinner'

Michael Smith and Josh Windass have both missed recent matches through muscle issues, though Owls boss Danny Röhl has expressed a hope that one or both could be ready to feature at Coventry having made a return to training last week.

Careful monitoring and consideration will be taken over both players, with the German keen to avoid any unnecessary extended absences as the side continue to look to claw their way out of relegation strife. Wednesday will be without the likes of Dominic Iorfa, Mallik Wilks, John Buckley and Juan Delgado who are all missing through longer-term injury. Momo Diaby is stepping up his involvement but is unregistered and won't be eligible to play until the turn of the year.

Coventry have fewer injury headaches but could be without former Doncaster Rovers midfielder Ben Sheaf, who was taken off during their impressive 3-0 win over Sunderland at the weekend with a gash to the forehead.

Former Owls player Mark Robins, now manager of last season's beaten play-off finalists, said: "He’s got a fairly big flap of skin where the cut was like a V-shape on the top of his forehead. The doctors have done a good job on it. It was sort of touching whether he needed some different stitches. So not to put anybody off the dinner, or anything like that, but it was a bad deep cut.

"The doctor looks like he's got that back together and hopefully he can get on with it. There's no concussion. So, he's not having to go through that protocol."