Fernando Forestieri is often the hero for Sheffield Wednesday, and is almost never the villain at Hillsborough, however, it was the Italian’s penalty that cost the Owls a place at Wembley this week.

After playing out a 1-1 draw with Huddersfield Town earlier this week in the Sky Bet Championship’s play-off semi-final, penalties were required to see who would meet Reading at Wembley on May 29^th.

Wednesday were trailing 4-3 when Forestieri stepped up to take his penalty, and needing to score to keep the Owls in the match, the forward’s lashed spot-kick was saved by Danny Ward, sending Huddersfield to Wembley.

It is the second successive year the Owls have failed to clinch promotion via the play-offs, and everyone inside Hillsborough on Wednesday evening was visibly gutted – particularly Forestieri.

The 27-year old has taken to Twitter to describe Wednesday’s play-off defeat as the worst feeling he has felt in his life, before thanking his teammates and the club’s supporters.

With Forestieri clearly gutted by Wednesday’s failure to reach the Premier League, here is how supporters reacted…