Sheffield Wednesday vs Plymouth prediction and team news

How it settled

Sheffield Wednesday 3–0 Plymouth Argyle, full time on Saturday 14 November. Wednesday were slight favourites in the market and won comfortably, a wider margin than a 2.25 price implied.

Our call before the match

Written on 11 Nov 2026, before the match. The prices, team news and any "tonight" or "next week" below are as they stood then.

Sheffield Wednesday are slight favourites to beat Plymouth Argyle at Hillsborough on Saturday: the typical price across 42 bookmakers was 2.25 for Wednesday, 3.60 for the draw and 2.80 for Plymouth when we read them on Wednesday morning, 11 November. That is about 44% Wednesday, 28% draw and 36% Plymouth with the margin left in. Plymouth are fifth, three points and three places above Wednesday, and arrive with three players hurt; Wednesday have a new manager and a long injury list of their own.

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Kick-off and the table

Saturday 14 November 2026, 15:00 UK time, Hillsborough. It is one of the League One games that survived the international break. Wednesday had their Stevenage and Cambridge games postponed during the September break, and this one was in doubt until Dave Challinor said on 6 November that it "looks like going ahead". Clubs can ask for a postponement with three players on international duty, but only players who meet the EFL's appearance criteria count, and of Wednesday's call-ups only Kieran Morrison (Northern Ireland) did, per OneFootball.

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
4	Luton Town	14	7	3	4	+6	24
5	Plymouth Argyle	14	7	2	5	+2	23
6	Reading	14	6	4	4	+10	22
7	Bradford City	13	6	4	3	+2	22
8	Cambridge United	14	5	6	3	0	21
9	Sheffield Wednesday	13	5	5	3	+8	20

Wednesday have a game in hand and the better goal difference. A home win takes them level with Plymouth on 23 points and into the play-off places on goal difference if the results around them fall right.

Sheffield Wednesday: team news

Challinor took over this month after Henrik Pedersen left in October. He spent nearly five years at Stockport County, taking them from the National League to League One. His first game was Sunday's FA Cup tie at Oldham, lost 2–1 after extra time, and Saturday is his first league match.

He goes into it short of bodies. Against Oldham, Harry Gray hurt his hip in the warm-up, goalkeeper Ashley Maynard-Brewer went off early after a collision, and Jordi Liongola, Ricardo Santos and Liam Palmer could not last 90 minutes. Max Lowe "felt something" late on; Challinor hopes it is nothing, because the side looked unbalanced without a left-footer at left-back. Di'Shon Bernard has not played 90 minutes in 18 months. Morrison is away with Northern Ireland, and Ali Al-Hamadi has had another injury setback. Yan Valery is available, per The Star.

Plymouth Argyle: team news

Tom Cleverley confirmed after Tuesday's 2–1 EFL Trophy win over Swindon that Michael Baidoo and Bim Pepple are out of the trip to Hillsborough and that Alex Mitchell is a major doubt, all with muscular problems. Baidoo had only just come back from a long hamstring injury and scored in the 4–0 FA Cup win over Alvechurch on Saturday; the hamstring has gone again, though Cleverley says it is "nowhere near as serious". He blamed a run of heavy travel.

Form and the head to head

Team	Last five (newest first)
Sheffield Wednesday	L 1–2 Oldham (FA Cup, aet), D 1–1 Blackpool, D 1–1 Cambridge, L 0–2 Doncaster, L 0–2 Notts County
Plymouth Argyle	W 2–1 Swindon (EFL Trophy), W 4–0 Alvechurch (FA Cup), D 0–0 Reading, W 3–2 Cambridge, L 0–3 Stevenage

Wednesday have not won in five, and their last league win was 5–0 against AFC Wimbledon on 17 October. Plymouth are unbeaten in four, two of them cup games against lower-league sides.

The head to head favours Wednesday: five wins in eight meetings since 2021 against three for Plymouth, no draws. The last four: Plymouth 0–3 Wednesday (March 2025), Wednesday 4–0 Plymouth (August 2024), Wednesday 1–0 Plymouth (March 2024) and Plymouth 3–0 Wednesday (October 2023). Old meetings carry little weight with two different managers in charge, but they are the only direct evidence there is.

What the odds say

The prices barely separate the sides, and the range is wide: from 2.05 to 2.37 for Wednesday and 2.55 to 3.05 for Plymouth across 42 bookmakers. A gap that wide on a League One game usually means the books disagree about team news, and both sides have plenty of it. A new-manager bounce is the other unknown; how a change in the dugout can move a price is worked through in Braga changed coach on Tuesday: what it does tonight. For how to read a three-way price like this one, see what the draw is worth in football odds.

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What this does not tell you

It does not know either line-up, whether Lowe or Mitchell make it, or whether another call-up changes the fixture before Saturday. The odds are a snapshot of a moving market, and the table is from SmartBet's standings, not the EFL. It carries no BAI8 number: that is on the match page.