Hard graft paying off for Owls

Marcus Tudgay bagged a brace as the visitors ran out 3-1 winners at Home Park to leave Argyle still searching for their first Championship victory of the campaign.Laws said: "We worked extremely hard to get this win. When you travel seven hours to a match you want to come away with something and we have."We were resilient. The first goal was always going to be important."It was a set-piece move we worked on in training and it has worked for us, so obviously I am pleased with that."I knew a second goal would be the key to the game and we got it."That was important as well."Overall I was really pleased with the team and the only negative was that we gave away silly fouls, and one of them resulted in a free-kick from which they scored."Central defender Richard Wood headed the Owls' 33rd-minute opener after Darren Potter's corner from the left was headed back across goal by striker Tudgay.Home skipper Carl Fletcher saw his 55th-minute shot come back off the post before Wednesday went two up after striker Luke Varney was sent tumbling by defender Marcel Seip.Tudgay tucked away the 72nd-minute spot-kick, although home goalkeeper Romain Larrieu got a hand to the ball.Argyle striker Alan Gow halved the deficit in the 80th minute with a thumping 25-yard free-kick after a handball by full-back Tommy Spurr.Gow's next free-kick, in the 84th minute, was headed over by full-back Gary Sawyer as Argyle sought to restore parity.Tudgay ensured the 1,200 travelling Wednesday supporters went home happy after exchanging passes with Potter and firing home his second goal of the match in stoppage time.Argyle manager Paul Sturrock - a former Wednesday boss - handed a debut to new on-loan Cardiff right back Darcy Blake, signed on Friday, and paired former Rangers striker Gow in attack with on-loan Celtic forward Cillian Sheridan for the first time.Sturrock said: "There is such a thin line between winning and not winning and if Fletcher's shot had hit inside of the post and gone in it would have been 1-1 and game on."But we cannot afford to give away goals like we did, at a set-piece and with a sloppy penalty."We have got to start defending better as a team because I am sure we have got goals in us now that Gow and Sheridan are here."I didn't make any substitutions because I saw all sorts of individual positives and up front those pair need match-time together."

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