Owls boss prepared for tough afternoon

HENRIK Pedersen accepts it will be difficult for his Sheffield Wednesday players to focus on tomorrow's task at hand after a chaotic past few months.

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HENRIK Pedersen accepts it will be difficult for his Sheffield Wednesday players to focus on tomorrow’s task at hand after a chaotic past few months.

Wednesday are under a number of Football League-imposed embargos for various financial breaches, including the payment of wages to players and staff being delayed for the last three months.

There are just 15 senior players left on the books at Hillsborough ahead of their season-opener at Leicester tomorrow, with the Owls red-hot favourites to be relegated from the Sky Bet Championship.

Pedersen told the PA news agency: "Of course it’s not easy right now, it’s not easy for our boys coming in every day. If it was easy then everyone would make a top performance in a difficult environment.