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Sheffield Wednesday needed late heroics to ensure that Garry Monk’s start to life at the club continued in unbeaten style.
After defeating Huddersfield for his first game in charge, the Owls faced a much sterner test in the form of Fulham, who weren’t sitting in the relegation zone like the Terriers.
The visitors actually took the lead right before half time when Keiren Westwood spilled a cross straight into the path of Tom Cairney, who couldn’t miss from close range.
With less than 15 minutes to go, Monk threw on the big man Atdhe Nuhiu, and he was rewarded in the last seconds of the game as the 6 foot 6 striker headed home a Kadeem Harris cross to salvage a point.
Wednesday were quite sloppy in spells and the failure to convert their chances ultimately put them at risk from losing this game.
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Fulham played the Owls off the park, statistically speaking, as the visitors recorded a vast 70.8% possession which is quite extraordinary for an away team – but that’s just how Scott Parker sets up his team.
They rank first in the league for possession percentage at 63.8%.
Wednesday had more shots at goal with 12, though, just five of those were on target with the only goal coming in injury-time – that’s quite clearly an issue, but it has an easy solution.
Monk’s favoured formation at Birmingham City was 4-4-2 which saw the strike pairing of Che Adams and Lukas Jutkiewicz rack up 36 goals between them, in a side that finished 17th in the Championship.
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A simple switch to a similar style at Hillsborough could pay dividends – there are certainly more than enough forwards at the club to do so and it would surely help the team garner more end product.
Steven Fletcher, who wins 6.5 aerial duels per game, and Nuhiu offer a target man-type player while Sam Winnall and Fernando Forestieri can be the sort to feed off that.
And then there is Jordan Rhodes if we’re getting desperate.
The Owls also have talented wing players in Harris, Adam Reach and Newcastle United loanee Jacob Murphy, which would allow the number of crosses into the box that makes this system tick.
Harris showed signs of that in his assist, so the formation could well work if given a go. It certainly did so under Monk at Birmingham.