Alan Irvine makes one change from the side that lost narrowly at Middlesbrough last Saturday, with Leon Clarke returning in the final third. Tom Soares drops to the bench.

Owls: Grant, Nolan, Beevers, Purse, Spurr, O'Connor, Potter, Varney, Johnson, Tudgay, Clarke

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

Blades: Simonsen, Montgomery, Morgan, Nosworthy, Henderson, Williamson, Harper, Taylor, Cresswell, Quinn, Connolly

Substitutes: Bennett, Evans, Yeates, Bartley, Little, Seip, Camara

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