• Bristol City have won three of their last four at home, with each victory being by at least two goals

• Wednesday have lost their last five matches to nil

• Recommended bet: Bristol City -1 goal handicap

Bristol City’s 2-0 defeat at Ipswich on Tuesday evening was a third straight Championship game in which Gerhard Struber’s side have failed to score, but a visit from rock-bottom Sheffield Wednesday is expected to signal a turning point.

Despite the recent dip in form, Bristol City are still within three points of the play-off places and they have impressed in recent outings at Ashton Gate.

The Robins swatted aside Watford 5-1 in their last home outing in the FA Cup third round and they also put five past Portsmouth in a league victory at the beginning of January.

Visitors Sheffield Wednesday, who are rooted to the foot of the Championship table on -7 points following their 18-point deduction, are already resigned to the fact that they will be playing League One football next season.

The Owls have won only one of their 27 league games and five defeats in their last six away matches suggests more misery could follow on their trip to Bristol.

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Team news

Bristol City remain without the services of midfielders Max Bird and long-term absentee Joe Williams while defender Luke McNally has yet to feature this season.

French forward Fally Mayulu has not played since his 17-minute cameo from the substitute’s bench in a 2-0 win at home to Middlesbrough in December and is also still out.

Sheffield Wednesday’s struggles are not being helped by a busy treatment room and Di’Shon Bernard, George Brown, Nathaniel Chalobah, Pierce Charles, Liam Cooper, Olaf Kobacki, Ike Ugbo and Max Lowe remain sidelined.

The stats

Sheffield Wednesday have won just one of their 27 league games, suffering 18 defeats.

The Owls have failed to score in six games, losing their last five outings to nil.

Wednesday have fired blanks in three of their last five meetings with Bristol City, losing September’s reverse fixture at home 3-0.

The Robins have recorded six wins in their last 10 matches at Ashton Gate, keeping four clean sheets.

The visitors have lost four of their last six away games by at least a two-goal margin.

Bristol City have lost only one of their last seven meetings with Wednesday.

Prediction

Struber said that his Bristol City side need to be more ruthless following their three-game goal-drought and they can turn on the style at home to Sheffield Wednesday.

The Owls have failed to score in their last six games, with Tuesday’s 2-0 loss at home to Birmingham a fifth straight defeat to nil, and they have conceded exactly three goals in each of their last three away trips to Ipswich, Preston and QPR.

That suggests that the Robins can run riot and, having scored five goals in wins over Watford and Portsmouth within their last three outings at Ashton Gate, that should be the case.

Bristol City were easy 3-0 winners away at Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough in September and they can prove at least two goals too good for the Owls again.

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