Bristol City battle back twice to deny Sheffield Wednesday victory

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Bristol City battle back twice to deny Sheffield Wednesday victory

Bristol City twice came from behind to earn a 2-2 draw with fellow Championship play-off contenders Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough.

Wednesday were dominant before the interval and scored through Djeidi Gassama’s fourth league goal of the season, but Max O’Leary denied him on another occasion to keep the deficit at one heading into half-time.

The visitors cleaned up their act in สมัคร UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีสำหรับสมาชิกใหม่ the second period and Nahki Wells headed home an equaliser but Di’Shon Bernard restored Wednesday’s lead two minutes later.

However, Wednesday were again unable to hang on and were force to share the spoils courtesy of Ross McCrorie’s late header.

Neither team had anything to shout about in the opening quarter but clinical Wednesday had their noses in front with their first real threat.

Josh Windass broke forward and fed a ball out wide for Yan Valery. His lovely low cross was expertly tuck into the far corner by Gassama.

City failed to make an impression in a disappointing first half and the Owls looked to threaten a second – Barry Bannan aimed to bend one in from 25 yards but O’Leary was there to comfortably meet it and make his first save of the game.

The hosts continued to push and some neat link-up play between Bannan and Gassama allowed the latter to get his shot off but he was denied by the outstretched O’Leary who was able to palm wide of the target.

Just 36 seconds after the interval, Bannan tried his luck with an audacious effort from 35 yards to see if O’Leary was alert but the City keeper produced an easy save.