Tony Pulis on a potential midfield selection crisis for Sheffield Wednesday

The veteran Owls manager - whose side were reduced to ten men on the half hour against the Royals following the dismissal of Liam Shaw - came up with a successful contingency plan at half-time to repel the Royals in the second half of Wednesday night's 1-1 draw and now he may be required to produce another masterstroke at Norwich City.

Wednesday face a potential crisis in central midfield, with Massimo Luongo being suspended after collecting his fifth booking of the season against the Berkshire outfit, with Shaw also sitting out the game following his red card.

To compound matters, midfield talisman Barry Bannan is a doubt with an ankle injury which forced him off at half-time, leaving the Owls looking seriously light of options in the engine room.

One option may be to push Callum Paterson back into midfield, with Pulis entrusted with coming up with something.

In typical Pulis fashion, do not expect him to moan about whatever happens, but just get on with it.

When questioned about it, Pulis quipped: "We are going to Norwich on Saturday and Massimo’s got five bookings so he can't play. Shawy ain't going to play.

"If you’ve got your boots, you’ve got a chance of playing!

"Barry Bannan has got a right kick on his ankle and we will have to wait and see what he is like with the games coming quick.

"He’s got some swelling and he’s very sore. There was no way I was going to keep him on, he wanted to stay on, but there was no way.

"We need him. He’s an important player for this football club."

Aside from the two suspensions blow and the potential injury to Bannan, Pulis was effusive in his praise of his side's attitude amid adversity against Reading as his players displayed the character, attitude, work ethic and fight which all are essential ingredients in any side successfully fighting their way out of trouble at the wrong end of the table.

For the Welshman, who has toughened up the Owls and made them harder to beat on the evidence of his tenure so far, it is a welcome sight.

He added: "I think everybody who is a Sheffield Wednesday supporter in and outside of the city should be really, really proud of the effort they have put in.

"There is good spirit in the dressing room. We have tried to pull them all together and we have done certain things as a group together to lift everybody. The players showed that spirit is there."