Loan report: Beadle the hero as Wednesday win

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Matt Bishop

2024-12-23T12:10+00:00

James Beadle spent last season on loan with Sheffield Wednesday. 📷 by Jez Tighe.

James Beadle pulled off a heroic second-half penalty save to help ten-man Sheffield Wednesday secure a vital victory against Stoke City on Saturday.

The Owls won 2-0 at Hillsborough despite Di’Shon Bernard being sent off in the first half with the scores still level, and Beadle had to be at his best to keep Tom Cannon’s powerful header out and then save the striker’s late penalty with a strong left hand.

Andrew Moran played 67 minutes for Stoke but couldn’t prevent the defeat, and speaking after the match, Beadle said: “I feel like I’m going from strength to strength. We have a really good group here and we all want to do well.

“I’ve really enjoyed my year here, I have definitely improved as a goalkeeper. The fans have been really good to me. The atmosphere was unreal so long may it continue.

“We’re looking up rather than down heading into the second half of the season.”

Elsewhere in the Championship, Amario Cozier-Duberry started for Blackburn but they lost 1-0 at Millwall, while Jeremy Sarmiento missed Burnley’s win against Watford due to concussion and Mark O’Mahony’s injury kept him out of Portsmouth’s squad as they beat Coventry 4-1.

Further down the EFL, Samy Chouchane and Northampton lost 5-0 at home to Charlton in League One, with the Tunisian on for the final 14 minutes, and Odel Offiah played the full 90 as Blackpool drew 0-0 with Stevenage, but Kamari Doyle’s Exeter did taste victory in the third tier as they beat Burton 2-1 with our loanee enjoying a 23-minute cameo.

In League Two, Tom McGill and MK Dons lost a 6-3 thriller away at Newport and Luca Barrington played for 63 minutes as Grimsby lost 3-1 to Ian Holloway’s Swindon, but Benicio Baker-Boaitey missed Port Vale’s 0-0 draw with Carlisle due to injury.

Over the border in Scotland, Ben Jackson was an unused substitute for Livingston as they lost 1-0 at Ayr and Capser Nilsson was injured as Partick Thistle won 2-0 at Airdrie, and beyond these shores there was action for Abdallah Sima and Ibrahim Osman.

Sima played the final 25 minutes for Stade Brest as they safely navigated their way past lowly La Roche in the Coupe de France but Osman and Feyenoord lost 3-0 at rivals PSV in the Dutch Eredivisie.

There was also top-flight action for Facundo Buonanotte, who played the last six minutes of Leicester’s 3-0 defeat to Wolves, but Valentin Barco wasn’t involved for Sevilla as they lost 4-2 to Real Madrid.