Sheffield Wednesday team news: Experienced figure returns at Hull City, international available
Max Lowe has handed Sheffield Wednesday an important boost ahead of Saturday's Championship game at Hull City.
The versatile left-sided defender has not featured since injuring his calf in the final match before Christmas, at Ipswich Town.
The Owls are light on experienced players, particularly with centre-back Liam Cooper's season ended by injury whilst Di'Shon Bernard's will never start, so the 28-year-old's return is especially welcome.
"It's fantastic that he's back," said manager Henrik Pedersen of Lowe, who was a wing-back at Sheffield United but was converted to central defence by his predecessor Danny Rohl.
"Max has been a very important part of the last years and of course it's a big asset to the squad that he's back again.
"First he's strong for the culture so it means something to have Max back in the daily training and in the dressing room. And of course for our back line it's a good asset to put into this so we also can change a little bit. So it's positive."
Sean Fusire is also expected to feature in East Yorkshire despite pulling out of international duty this week.
The Zimbabwe player established himself as a key figure late in 2025 after being converted from a midfielder to a wing-back but was called up for the African Cup of Nations. Fusire did not feature at the tournament, and until the last four games had not started for the Owls on his return.
He withdrew from March's games for "personal reasons".
"He is fine for this weekend," said Pedersen. "He left to the Africa Cup of Nations and he didn't play.
"It took three or four games after he came back (to get up to speed). Now he starts to be strong again. He has, again, made a new jump in his development."
The hope is that striker George Brown can make his return from a hamstring injury suffered in December.
"It's going really well and we hope that Tuesday after the Leicester game that he can play his first game minutes in the under-21s," explained Pedersen. "Everything is going in the right direction and we hope we can bring him up to this level so he could get maybe 45, 60 minutes in this game and then after that soon be a part of the first team again."
The Owls have eight games left this season, and are on minus six points, with relegation to League One confirmed last month.