Plymouth Argyle welcome Sheffield Wednesday to Home Park this weekend, with the Pilgrims looking to earn valuable points in the battle against Championship relegation.
The writing has been on the wall from the opening weekend of the season for the Greens, when they travelled to the home of Saturday’s visitors in Wayne Rooney’s first match in charge, and were promptly dispatched 4-0.
The warning signs were there right from the off under the former Manchester United man, with the Green Army experiencing the ultimate humbling as the Owl ran riot in front of the TV cameras.
The upcoming reunion gives the Greens a chance to put the record straight this weekend, with Miron Muslic now the man in the dugout after Rooney’s dismissal on New Year’s Eve.
Plymouth Argyle will still feel raw from Sheffield Wednesday demolition
The hopes and dreams of the 24/25 campaign were abruptly smashed to smithereens at Hillsborough on the opening weekend of the season, as a lacklustre Argyle side capitulated in dramatic fashion.
With five new signings forced into the starting lineup, the Greens looked like a bunch of strangers in their first competitive showing under their new boss, with the Owls rampaging forward time and time again.
It was only a matter of time before the Yorkshire side opened the scoring, and Jamal Lowe duly obliged ten minutes before the interval, with the only surprise being it had taken so long to break the deadlock.
A Brendan Galloway own goal quickly made it two after the restart, before Josh Windass and Michael Smith rubbed salt into the wounds late on, in what would turn out to be the first of many trouncings on the road during the current campaign.
Heading back to Devon with their tails between their legs, all the expectations from the summer had quickly vanished into thin air for the Green Army, with plenty of focus on their new man in the dugout given his struggles in previous roles.
