Man of the minute Marcus Tudgay took his recent tally to five goals in the last four games as Wednesday made it ten points from the last 12 available with victory over Leicester City.

Tudgay continued his recent burst of red-hot form with goals either side of the break, contributing two clinical finishes following smart work from Deon Burton.

That brace ended City's eight-match unbeaten run after an impressive Owls display saw them run the game for the first 70 minutes, though Matt Fryatt's strike made for a more tense finale which Wednesday had to weather.

After a lively start in which both sides looked sharp, Tudgay propelled himself forward to meet a Chris Brunt corner but sent his header over the top, moments before testing Conrad Logan with a shot from the edge of the box. October's Player of the Month also saw his overhead kick blocked by Darren Kenton - with a tentative Owls appeal for handball - and Yoann Folly failed to connect when Brunt returned the ball to him 15 yards from goal.

Wednesday had constantly looked the more likely to open the scoring - Richard Stearman miscued the Foxes' clearest sight of goal - and it came as little surprise when Tudgay slammed them ahead 11 minutes before the break. Burton put the ball into his fellow frontman's path with a clever chested pass and Tudgay walloped his shot low past Logan to give the Owls first blood.

The Owls maintained control until the break, then extended their advantage with 56 minutes played as Tudgay and Burton teamed up to dangerous effect once again. Burton got free down the left and slid the ball across for Tudgay to sweep past Logan and into the far corner with his left foot.

Burton was only an inch or two too high with his left peg after dashing onto the box down the left channel while Lee Bullen was in the right place to calm the panic after Andy Welsh headed goalwards following Brad Jones' punch. However Leicester were given hope despite being dominated since the off when Fryatt's shot appeared to have been stopped by Jones but looped over the line to get the Foxes on the scoresheet in unorthordox fashion.

The former Walsall man was close to what would have been an even more bizarre equaliser when his block on Bullen's attempted clearance saw the ball fly just over the crossbar off his foot. City's goal had renewed their belief and they set about pumping balls at the Owls defence in their search for an equaliser. However Wednesday's rearguard stood tall and Patrick McCarthy's header, comfortably saved by Jones, was their closest call despite enduring four minutes of injury-time.

Wednesday: Jones; Simek, Bullen, Bougherra, Hills; Small (Talbot 71), Lunt, Folly, Brunt; Tudgay (MacLean 88), Burton.

Subs: Adamson, Whelan, O'Brien, MacLean, Talbot.

Leicester: Logan; Kenton, McCarthy, Johansson, McAuley: Stearman, Hughes, Johnson (Welsh 60), Tiatto (Sylla 67); Hume, Hammond (Fryatt h-t).

Subs: Henderson, Maybury, Fryatt, Welsh, Sylla.