Svante Ingelsson hopes versatility helps him at Sheffield Wednesday but goals are needed too

But the Swede is hoping the versatility which has seen him play a variety of roles in his career can help him adapt to manager Danny Rohl's fluid style of play.

Like his team, Ingelsson showed what he could do on his debut last month, excelling as a central midfielder happy to cause "overloads" by peeling out to the right. From there he made the opening goal which set his side on their way to a 4-0 victory over Plymouth Argyle.

Unfortunately since then things have not been the same for the 26-year-old or his team, who have lost their subsequent three Championship matches without scoring. Ingelsson was on the bench for the last of them, with debutant Shea Charles preferred in midfield at Millwall.

A 3-0 defeat at the New Dean highlighted how Rohl is still looking for the right formula from his revamped squad but whatever he lands on will almost certainly require players who are comfortable switching positions and goals from midfield, the latter of which has not been a strength of Ingelsson's thus far.

The 26-year-old Swede has just eight in senior football, although there have been 24 assists.

That is surprising given the career arc of a player who has appeared in the Swedish, Italian, German and now English leagues.

"When I was younger, from around six or seven years-old until I was 15, 16, I almost always played as a striker and after that I moved out to the wing and made my Serie A debut (for Udinese) as a winger," he recalled. "It was like that in my first two years there.

"Then we had a different coach (Luca Gotti) and we played 5-3-2 without wingers so I was more of a No 8 (box-to-box midfielder). I played there a lot, and in the national (junior) team in a No 8/double-six (one of two deeper midfielders) position.

"Then I've been going back and forth from 10 (in the hole behind a striker), 8, 6, a little bit everywhere in Germany (where he played in Bundesliga 2 for Paderborn and Hansa Rostock).”

His first real role model was one of the Premier League’s greatest goalscorers.

"I had a lot of different players to look up to but in my early years it was Henry at Arsenal, for sure, when I looked at a striker,” he says.

Ingelsson admits he would like his goal tally to be higher, but insists it is not his primary focus.

"I have different positions, sometimes more offensive, sometimes more defensive," he pointed out. "I've always been more of an assist player but of course I would like to get more goals. As long as the points are coming, I'm happy."

But the flexibility Rohl demands suits Ingelsson, and was an extra attraction when the chance of joining the Owls came up in the summer.

"I'm comfortable in almost every position on the pitch, so I think that helps a lot," he says.

"It doesn't really matter where I am on the pitch, I still have a feeling of what I have to do.

"I've played left-back, right-back, played everywhere. I'm pretty comfortable in that so I try to use this in a good way to ask questions of the opposition team and how they want to handle it.

"The whole picture of how he (Rohl) wants to play and how he wants his team to behave really suits me, my mindset and how I want to play football, with an attacking style and a lot of transitions – high-paced football going forward when the opportunity’s there and a high-pressing defensive line who always want to attack the opponent and not give them time

"This is how I want to play and I think it's how we are playing.”

As an Henry fan, the thought of playing in England was something that had long appealed to Ingelsson, and Scandinavians have a good track record in English football as the likes of his compatriots Roland Nilsson and Niclas Alexandersson can attest after successful spells at Hillsborough.

"I was always looking forward to playing in England one day,” admits Ingelsson.

"I'd been in Italy and Germany and I wanted to try England as well.

"When I was younger we had a pretty easy option to go to Italy and we didn't really consider other options.

"From the football perspective it's a lot how I expected it, a lot of fans and it's been good.

"I think it suits my attributes well with the running and lots of duels, breaking through with the ball at our feet."

The Championship is on an international break, giving Rohl the time to iron out the flaws which have presented themselves recently.

With Charles, who is on loan from Southampton, in the Northern Ireland squad for their Nations League games against Luxembourg and Bulgaria, Ingelsson will have a chance to impress at Middlewood Road.