Team news is in from Hillsborough

Preston North End manager Paul Heckingbottom has made two changes against Sheffield Wednesday this afternoon.

Captain Ben Whiteman and Thierry Small come into the side as Stefan Thordarson and Jamal Lewis drop to the bench. There is no return, as hoped, for Everton loan man Harrison Armstrong.

Former Owls, Pol Valentin and Michael Smith, are both substitutes. The visitors remain without Andrija Vukcevic, Robbie Brady, Lewis Gibson, Ali McCann, Brad Potts and banned centre-forward, Milutin Osmajic.

It’s three changes for the home side, who are without defender Max Lowe all together along with the suspended Dominic Iorfa. Liam Cooper drops to the bench as Gabriel Otegbayo and Liam Palmer come into the defence. Jamal Lowe is back in the Owls starting XI with new signing Nathan Redmond named as a substitute.

PNE starting XI: Iversen; Storey, Lindsay, Hughes, Offiah, Whiteman (c), Thompson, Small, Devine, Dobbin, Jebbison. PNE starting XI: Walton, Cornell; Valentin, Lewis, Thordarson, Frokjaer, Mawene, Keane, Smith.

Sheffield Wednesday starting XI: Horvath; Fusire, Palmer, Otegbayo, Amass, Valery, Bannan (c), Ingelsson, J. Lowe, McNeill, Cadamarteri. Sheffield Wednesday subs: Stretch, Alao, Emery, McGhee, Cooper, Thornton, Redmond, Ugbo.