Carry us home says Carvalhal Owls fans told to roar the side to Wembley
the first leg away from home then it’s positive.
“Are we now the favourites? There are no favourites because all four teams are very similar.”
Wednesday have not lost to the Terriers since 2013 and won both league meetings this season without conceding a goal.
The tactics employed by Carvalhal worked perfectly as Huddersfield, for all their possession and high-tempo approach, struggled to create meaningful goalscoring opportunities.
Chelsea loanee Izzy Brown hit a right-foot shot which clipped the top of the bar in the first half and Nahki Wells, a Wembley play-off winner with Bradford four years ago, was a menace throughout. But Wednesday, who failed to test Terriers goalkeeper Joel Coleman, defended resolutely to keep their goal intact. In the second half, Keiren Westwood tipped over a delightful chipped effort from Bermuda striker Wells then denied him again from close range. Huddersfield have been out of the top flight since 1972 but David Wagner has steered them to their best campaign in years. The German has constantly played down their hopes of winning promotion and denied they had wasted a golden opportunity to take an advantage into the second leg. Wagner said: “We are the underdogs and all the pressure is on Sheffield Wednesday. I have no idea what they will do at Hillsborough but I don’t worry about that. If they play deep, like they did today, I’m not sure how their supporters will react.
“We will be active, not passive, like we were over the whole season. I’m not sure, with the pressure at Hillsborough, if this result is a disadvantage for us. This could be an advantage.
“I wish we had got a victory because, if there was one team who deserved it, it was my team – but we couldn’t take one of those two or three chances we had.
“The result is absolutely OK because it’s game on.”
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put the result beyond doubt with City’s fourth.
Wembley is a happy hunting ground for American star Lloyd, who won an Olympic gold medal here in 2012.
“It was good to come back and have the opportunity to play here again,” she said.
“It’s a fantastic stadium and pitch. To come here and claim two wins from two is pretty good.”
Birmingham manager Mark Skinner said: “We were slow out of the blocks and the damage was done in the first half.
“Man City were excellent and made very good use of the width of the pitch.
“We lost out on too many second balls and some of the goals we conceded were unlike us. That is a big disappointment.”
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