Wednesday: Dawson, O'Grady, Aken, Baker, Williams, Nelsen, (West 52), Hughes (Waldock , KIrby, Borukov, Forestri, (Lonchar 61), Preston. Subs: West, Wallis, Lee,
Coventry City U23's went down to a 2-1 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday this afternoon.
Max Biamou was in the City squad which also featured Dion Kelly-Evans who played City's last visit to Hillsborough in 2016.
On a sunny but not warm afternoon, Wednesday kicked off and went straight on the attack with Corey Addai having to make two excellent reaction saves before Forestri fired wide.
Josh Barrett had a run and shot saved but Wednesday were the stronger team going forward and after Preston had headed over and Addai saved from Forestri, Neil Thompson's side were awarded a penalty when Fernando Forestri was pulled down and the referee Leigh Doughty awarded a penalty which Forestri duly converted.
Addai had to make another save before City started to get back into the game.
Max Biamou won a corner, Maycock volleyed at Dawson, Camwell fired wide and Barrett won another corner.
Josh Eccles who had an excellent game in midfield for City, helped to clear a 39th minute free kick for Jason Farndon and Andy Crabtree's side, who were attacking the Kop end.
Then in the 43rd minute, City had a free kick which Barrett took and struck lovely, forcing Dawson in the Owls goal to dive to his right to push away.
City attacked again and won a corner. The ball came over and Max Biamou headed down for Lewis Green in a crowded penalty area to volley past Dawson on his right from twelve yards.
City nearly went in front two minutes into the second half when a Jordan Ponticelli volley from twenty plus yards, flew inches over the crossbar.
The referee was keen to spot and take action against all the petty fouls but in the 64th minute, he missed an absolute blatant handball which allowed the ball to be played to West. The substitute, played a neat ball to Preslav Borukov who beat Addai from an acute angle.
Max Biamou went off applauding the City supporters and parents to be replaced by Kyle Finn and Callum Maycock was replaced by Bilal Sayoud.
City worked and got in their tackles but ran out of ideas up front and went down to a defeat.