Sheffield Utd v Sheffield Wednesday

The Steel City Derby delivers a cracking friday night game, and it's sure to be a hotly contested fixture, with both clubs needing results for different reasons.

Sheffield United rode their luck in the early part of the season, to top the table back in October, but results have turned since and they have now won just twice in 10, so will strike the same fear into the Owls that they may have done ahead of their 4-2 win at Hillsborough.

Things still don't look great for Wednesday, and since the departure of Carlos Carvalhal the Owls have won just the one honeymoon match for Lee Bullen, and have failed to score in their last three outings.

The Blades moved to strengthen their squad on Wednesday with Lee Evans joining from Wolves and James Wilson coming in on-loan from Manchester United. The youngster did well in a spell at Brighton, so with another year under his belt, should be a good prospect.

Six of the past 18 derby matches between these two have ended in draws, which isn't unexpected given the bragging rights at stake and the importance of this to the fans. Loss aversion comes out kicking hard in this sort of fixture

Despite the obvious fact that the Blades are the better side this season, we'll overlook the home advantage and trust Wednesday to make a decent fist of this to share the spoils.

1pt Sheffield Utd v Sheffield Wednesday to be a draw at 5/2

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