Alan Irvine sticks with the same X1 that finished the game at Preston in midweek as the Owls face Derby at Hillsborough.

With Luke Varney ineligible for the game against his parent club, Leon Clarke returns to the starting line-up to partner Marcus Tudgay up front.

Owls: Grant, Nolan, Beevers, Purse, Spurr, Soares, O'Connor, Potter, Miller, Clarke, Tudgay

Substitutes: O'Donnell, Simek, Hinds, Palmer, Gray, Esajas, Jeffers

Derby: Bywater, McEvevely, Green, Hulse, Porter, Barker, Pearson, Tonge, Hunt, Anderson, Sunu

Substitutes: Martin, Leacock, Savage, Buxton, Davies, Moxey, Martin