Sheffield Wednesday made it nine games on the bounce without a loss on Tuesday night with a comfortable 2-0 win against Bolton Wanderers.

The ever-reliable Steven Fletcher opened the scoring for the Owls just a minute before half-time, chipping Remi Matthews after some good work between Barry Bannan and Atdhe Nuhiu.

15 minutes into the second period and it was two as January loan signing Rolando Aarons, finishing well from the edge of the area after an Adam Reach pass.

It was a result that lifted the Owls up into ninth place and just three points behind sixth-placed Bristol City, who occupy the final play-off spot.

Steve Bruce has done a great job since taking over at Hillsborough at the start of February, making them extremely resilient and hard to beat whilst instilling confidence in their attacking players.

And Fletcher is undoubtedly someone who is benefiting from that more than others as he showed again last night.

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Yes, the Scot added another goal to his season tally, but it was his link-up play that caught the eye the most in Bolton.

A pass accuracy of 79% from 38 passes for a striker holding the ball up is very good and will have been an enormous help in breaking down the Trotters.

Two accurate long balls showed the versatility in his play and an ability to make things happen from wherever on the pitch.