Sheffield Wednesday will welcome Josh Windass back from suspension against Blackburn Rovers but remain without five key players.

The Owls are rock-bottom of the Championship but drew 1-1 with league-leaders Leicester City on Wednesday night. A late goal from Jeff Hendrick sealed an impressive result for Danny Rohl's side, who have won once in seven games.

Despite that poor points return, performance have been much-improved since the German took over from Xisco Munoz. That said, they remain 12 points adrift of safety and face a Rovers side in fantastic form away from home.

Wednesday will be without John Buckley due to the terms of his loan agreement and striker Michael Smith is also a big doubt. The forward has missed the last three matches due to injury.

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"It will be hard," Rohl told BBC Radio Sheffield when asked about Smith. "Next week we have a normal week which gives a bit of time to bring some players back. If it’s too much it makes no sense. We’ll take it day to day.

"We need fresh legs again to do our pressing and our style of football. We need to find the balance at the moment. Today it was clear the starting XI couldn’t play to the end. In the English league of high intensity, we did very well."

Windass will be back from suspension, though, having missed the midweek game after collecting five yellow cards. Lewis Travis is ruled out with the same issue at Hillsborough, with the cut-off after the match on Saturday. Juan Delgado, Mallik Wilks and Momo Diaby remain on Wednesday's long-term absentee list.

Wednesday's late equaliser against the Foxes was no fluke, in the eyes of Rohl, who was delighted with the application of his side.

“Today I saw a team who was able to play against a really, really good team – a Premier League team, with this value and squad," the boss said. 

"And it was not, by the end, a game between first in the table and bottom of the table. When you saw how close we were, I think it’s really respectable from my players.”