Sheffield Wednesday 5-1 Peterborough United (5-5 agg): Owls win 5-3 on penalties to reach play-off final

Sheffield Wednesday players observe pulling disconnected the top comeback successful play-off history

Sheffield Wednesday pulled disconnected the top play-off comeback successful English Football League past to bushed Peterborough United connected penalties connected an unforgettable nighttime successful South Yorkshire.

Wednesday made the cleanable commencement erstwhile Michael Smith slotted location a punishment successful the opening 10 minutes to springiness the location fans renewed anticipation a occurrence could beryllium connected the cards, earlier Lee Gregory tapped successful to marque it 2-0 aft 25 minutes.

The location broadside continued to determination guardant aft the interruption and Reece James got the 3rd with a close-range decorativeness earlier Liam Palmer scrambled location an equaliser with the past footwear of the 90 minutes to spark pandemonium.

A shell-shocked Posh had scarcely got retired of their ain fractional successful the 2nd fractional of mean clip but Gregory deflected a Nathan Thompson header into his ain nett successful other clip to enactment the visitors backmost successful front, lone for Callum Paterson to poke location astatine the 2nd effort to nonstop the necktie to punishment kicks.

Dan Butler's effort deed the crossbar and went implicit and each different punishment was scored successful a shootout befitting the 120 minutes which had preceded it.

Prior to this necktie nary squad had ever flooded much than a two-goal first-leg shortage successful the EFL play-offs to scope the final.

Wednesday, who had go the archetypal squad successful EFL past to triumph 96 points and not spell up automatically, volition present look either Bolton oregon Barnsley astatine Wembley connected Monday, 29 May.

How the play unfolded connected memorable nighttime

Liam Palmer's extremity successful the last moments of clip added connected sent the crippled to other time

The Owls, who had finished 19 points and 3 places supra Peterborough successful League One, had near themselves with a seemingly insurmountable upland to ascent aft Friday's 4-0 thumping successful Cambridgeshire.

Moore said earlier the crippled his squad conscionable had to absorption connected winning and "see what happens", but surely helium could ne'er person envisaged what would unfold.

In beforehand of a raucous crowd, Marvin Johnson was clattered to the crushed connected the precise borderline of the punishment country by Joe Ward and Smith confidently rolled location his spot-kick.

Posh were rocked but inactive came adjacent to a leveller connected the nighttime erstwhile Kwame Poku showed bully feet earlier drilling a debased changeable astatine extremity that Cameron Dawson got down good to.

Dawson's counterpart Norris past flapped astatine a shot into the mediate and Paterson's blasted cross-shot was converted successful the mediate of the six-yard container by Gregory to summation the sound wrong the crushed adjacent more.

The distant broadside went into a huddle arsenic they sought to regain immoderate composure successful the aftermath of the Owls' 2nd and Ephron Mason-Clark tested Dawson erstwhile much earlier Joe Ward saw a changeable blocked, but it was Wednesday who had wrested power of the play erstwhile much by the clip the whistle was blown connected an utterly frenetic archetypal half.

They picked up wherever they had near disconnected successful the 2nd fractional and Norris made a superb diving prevention to support retired a spectacular overhead footwear from Gregory, and past denied Josh Windass with a much regular save.

Wednesday continued to determination guardant successful hunt of a 3rd and 29-goal Posh striker Jonson Clarke-Harris was often near to capable successful arsenic an other centre-back arsenic the visitors' defending became ever much desperate.

It was conscionable a substance of clip until the unit told and James struck from six yards aft Gregory cleverly dummied a done ball.

Moore brought connected centre-back Aden Flint to play up beforehand for the last fewer minutes of clip added connected and it proved important arsenic the defender headed down a heavy transverse for Palmer to smuggle implicit the line.

Peterborough had not had a changeable for the full of the 2nd fractional but retook the pb connected aggregate erstwhile Gregory unluckily deflected successful Thompson's header from a Butler free-kick conscionable earlier half-time successful other time.

Wednesday did not springiness successful though and aft Paterson popped up with different leveller, Smith, Will Vaulks, Barry Bannan, Josh Windass and yet Hunt scored from the spot to spark chaotic celebrations arsenic location fans raced connected to the pitch.