Sheffield Wednesday's reserve team suffered a heavy defeat in the Central League at Shrewsbury Town on Wednesday evening, losing 6-2 at the New Meadow.

The Owls found themselves 3-0 down at half time and matters soon got worse for the visitors, the scoreline being stretched to 5-0 within ten minutes of the restart.

Leon Clarke was one ray of light in an otherwise poor performance from the Wednesday side, the striker scoring from the edge of the penalty area midway through the second half and then setting up another for Rocky Lekaj.

However, coach Sean McAuley was left thoroughly underwhelmed by the performance.

"It was very disappointing all-round," McAuley said. "The performance fell well below the standard we expect and the only real plus to take is that the first team players we have at the club stayed in Sheffield - it showed that those players are a cut above what the reserves produced tonight.

"Nobody really put in a good performance apart from Leon Clarke, who worked hard, scored a good goal and set another one up. But on the whole it was very poor and the players have to realise that is not good enough," McAuley added.

SWFC reserves: O'Donnell, Halls, Liversidge, Hadfield, Gilbert (L Lekaj), Connelly (Tunnard), Boden, Lunt, Smith (Harrison), R Lekaj, Clarke.