BBC: Sheffield Wednesday earned their first away victory of the season as Connor Wickham grabbed the only goal in their game at Watford. Wickham scored with a 20-yard free-kick for his fifth goal for the Owls since joining on loan from Sunderland.

BHappy: You really have to wonder how we got here.  Even those who didn’t expect this season to be a cakewalk, who anticipated difficult games at home as attitudes towards us changed and we had to adapt to new circumstances and a different squad, can’t have anticipated this.  It stands to reason, of course, that last season’s flamboyant style was never something that was going to succeed in moderation;  we’re not equipped to grind out results when the going is rough, less so given the summer departures.  The viability of playing open, confident football is kinda dependent on the “confident” bit.  Otherwise you’re just “open”, with the inevitable consequence that you’re rather easy to score against without the verve to overturn a side with something to cling on to.  Nonetheless the chasm between the performances that yielded so many goals last season, goals that didn’t entirely desert us as we were finding our feet again early this, and performances that have yielded no goals in the last four at Vicarage Road is vast and would have been all but inconceivable even in the wake of the Wembley disappointment six months ago, a result that arguably did neither manager any favours at all.