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Wayne Rooney’s tenure as Plymouth boss begins with a chastening 4-0 defeat away to Sheffield Wednesday Debutant Jamal Lowe opened the scoring for the Owls after signing this summer Brendan Galloway headed in an own goal before Josh Windass’ strike Michael Smith added a fourth goal to complete the scoreline deep in added time Championship opening weekend concludes on Monday night as Luton host Burnley (20: 00 BST) Ian Woodcock FT: Sheff Wed 4-0 Plymouth That's as far as we go in here today. It was a perfect start for Sheffield Wednesday, who put in a dominant performance to beat Plymouth 4-0. New Pilgrims boss Wayne Rooney will be under no illusions about the size of the task he has with a team who only just avoided relegation last season. Danny Rohl's side were also in the relegation scrap in 2023-24 but this is a seventh successive league game without defeat for them and they looked very handy today. Thanks for your company and enjoy the rest of your weekend. Luton v Burnley (20: 00 BST, Monday 12 August) Still one more game to come in the EFL on the opening weekend and it's a big one. Luton and Burnley, both relegated from the Premier League last season, face off at Kenilworth Road tomorrow. Can Scott Parker make the perfect start to life as Clarets boss or will Rob Edwards' men make a strong start in front of their own fans? We'll have live text coverage of that one from 19: 45 BST, hope you can join us then. FT: Sheff Wed 4-0 Plymouth Lee Bullen Former Sheffield Wednesday caretaker manager on BBC Radio Sheffield First game of the season and it's almost perfection; four goals and dominant football. Couldn't have asked for anything more. As close to perfection as you could get. The staff can be very proud of this performance, the players can be proud individually. There's not one negative to take from this game. Ultimately, the foundations of any game is your defence and Wednesday got that right today. The fact that you're seeing positive out of it, with the sun taking it out of the legs, it will get better and better and better. It's one heck of a start. FT: Sheff Wed 4-0 Plymouth David Norris Former Plymouth Argyle midfielder on BBC Radio Devon It's just been a bad day for Plymouth and it could have been more. They've got to get back to the training ground and get a reaction for the next game. Sheff Wed 4-0 Plymouth Fabulous start FOUR Wednesday. Plymouth boss Wayne Rooney will have a lot to think about on the long journey back to Devon after a game where his side were beaten all ends up. The home side led 1-0 at the break thanks to Jamal Lowe's debut goal. They added a second when Brendan Galloway inadvertently headed into his own net and late goals from Josh Windass and sub Michael Smith put the gloss on the scoreline that Wednesday's performance merited. The Pilgrims allowed the home side to have 30 (THIRTY) shots on their goal. Wednesday? They're top of the league. Sheff Wed 4-0 Plymouth Lee Bullen Former Sheffield Wednesday caretaker manager on BBC Radio Sheffield It's a lonely place on that technical area when your team is 4-0 down. I'm looking down at the difference in the two benches; disappointment and elation. Wayne Rooney will have more questions than answers from this match. Michael Smith There's that cherry on the cake! Wayne Rooney's first game as Plymouth boss is ending in a real hiding. Sub Marvin Johnson hits a great cross to the back stick for fellow sub Michael Smith. His initial shot is blocked but he makes no mistake on the rebound, hammering it into the net. Sheff Wed 3-0 Plymouth The Owls are pushing in these final few minutes to try and get that fourth goal. Barry Bannan whips in a vicious near post corner that Jamal Lowe can't quite direct on target and then Michael Smith sees a shot saved by Conor Hazard in the away net. Sheff Wed 3-0 Plymouth Plymouth have had more openings in the past few minutes than the previous 85. The ball drops for Morgan Whittaker on the edge of the area and he makes a solid connection but it flies wide. Sheff Wed 3-0 Plymouth We'll have six minutes added on at the end of this. Perfect opening day stuff for the home side so far. Time for a cherry to go on the icing on the cake? Sheff Wed 3-0 Plymouth That's better. Plymouth midfielder Darko Gyabi shows good feet to fashion a shot from long range and it whistles just past the post. That's their best effort of the half by some way. Wednesday bring on stalwart Liam Palmer for debutant Svante Inglesson. Sheff Wed 3-0 Plymouth David Norris Former Plymouth Argyle midfielder on BBC Radio Devon Awful. Morgan Whittaker had no real confidence in it. It's gone way, way wide - it's a terrible effort. Sheff Wed 3-0 Plymouth Eesh. Plymouth finally make it up the right end of the pitch but striker Morgan Whittaker snatches at his shot and it almost hits the corner flag. Sheff Wed 3-0 Plymouth Largely immaterial now because the game's gone but Plymouth won't want to allow this to get worse. 3-0 is a bad way to start the season but 4-0 would look and feel a lot worse for Wayne Rooney and his new charges. Sheff Wed 3-0 Plymouth Josh Windass scores his goal and that's his day's work done. He goes off alongside Yan Valery and Pol Valentin and Michael Smith are on. Sheff Wed 3-0 Plymouth Lee Bullen Former Sheffield Wednesday caretaker manager on BBC Radio Sheffield Fantastic finish. Puts a ball through to Anthony Musaba and then cuts it back to Josh Windass. Fully deserved for his performance - delighted he got his goal. It's difficult to pick a man of the match because there's not been one negative in the game. There's so many positives to take from this. Josh Windass And now they DO make it three! It's so, so easy for the hosts. Anthony Musaba gets to the byline, having made an untracked run off the back of the Pilgrims defence, and then cuts it back for Josh Windass to belt in from six yards out. Sheff Wed 2-0 Plymouth Sheffield Wednesday have passed up so many chances for a third now. Josh Windass is allowed to waltz into the area but he can't make a clean connection with his shot and then Olaf Kobacki is crowded out. Sheff Wed 2-0 Plymouth Rapidly heading towards the final 10 minutes and not much of a sign that the away side are going to get back into this as Freddie Issaka looks to make progress down their left but runs it out of play. Sums up his side's day so far. Sheff Wed 2-0 Plymouth The hosts go to their bench and Marvin Johnson enters the fray alongside Olaf Kobacki, it's a club debut for the latter. Wayne Rooney won just two of his 15 games during his spell in charge of Birmingham City last year Wayne Rooney's tenure as Plymouth Argyle head coach got off to an inauspicious start as his side were thrashed 4-0 at Sheffield Wednesday. England's former top scorer - who took over as Argyle head coach in May - saw his side struggle to create chances as the hosts eased to victory. Having dominated the first half Wednesday took a deserved lead into the break as debutant Jamal Lowe finished off a cross from close range following some excellent build-up play. Jamal Lowe set up the Owls' second as he headed Djeidi Gassama's cross against Brendan Galloway for an own goal as the hosts continued to control the game. Josh Windass added a third goal with a powerful strike from six yards after Anthony Musaba had pulled the ball back from the byeline. Substitute Michael Smith completed the rout in the sixth minute of stoppage time when he converted a cross from close range. Danny Rohl's side could easily have scored two or three more times as Argyle failed to register a meaningful effort on target. Jamal Lowe had a Sheffield Wednesday debut to remember as he scored one goal and set up a second Wednesday started strongly as they controlled the early possession and Svante Ingelsson forced a good early save from Conor Hazard, who was preferred in the Argyle goal to Michael Cooper amid speculation he will leave the Pilgrims. Plymouth took 16 minutes to have a meaningful entry into the Wednesday penalty area - despite Rooney setting up with two wingers and two strikers - when Ibrahim Cissoko had a cross blocked. And that formation allowed Wednesday to take advantage of the gaps left in central midfield as Barry Bannan and Windass began to dictate the game and dominate the ball - they had almost two thirds of the first-half possession. Argyle's Victor Palsson had to hack away a dangerous 27th-minute cross from impressive debutant Yan Valery while Jamal Lowe had a shot blocked soon after. And it was former Bournemouth and Swansea City striker Jamal Lowe who broke the deadlock. Valery and Bannan linked up well to release Ingelsson down the right and his perfect low right-footed cross was converted by Jamal Lowe on his 300th senior appearance. Rooney has lots of work to do at Plymouth Argyle after a heavy opening day loss The second half began with Bannan having two shots blocked as Wednesday continued to boss the game. They got a deserved second goal as Nathanael Ogbeta failed to stop Jamal Lowe rising up to head Gassama's cross on to Galloway's head and past the helpless Hazard. Gassama should have made it 3-0 two minutes later, but his poor effort at the back post hit the side-netting following a good cross from Valery. Rooney made a triple change 12 minutes after the break with Bali Mumba, Ryan Hardie and Callum Wright coming on, but little changed as Owls trio Gassama, Di'Shon Bernard and Anthony Musaba all had efforts. Windass set up substitute Olaf Kobacki's strike from close-range which was blocked with 10 minutes to go, before Rohl's side ended any doubt with Windass' emphatic finish. Argyle and Rooney's day was summed up when last season's star player Morgan Whittaker - who had largely been a spectator throughout the match - dragged a low left-footed effort weakly wide after finally finding some space in the penalty area. Jamal Lowe flicked a near post header from a corner just wide as Wednesday searched for a fourth goal in stoppage time. They found it when Bannan dinked a pass to Marvin Johnson and his cross from the left was met by Smith, whose first effort was blocked by Hazard before blasting in the rebound from a yard out. Wayne Rooney saw Plymouth concede four goals on the opening day of the season for the first time since a 4-3 loss at Mansfield in 2002 Plymouth Argyle head coach Wayne Rooney told BBC Radio Devon: "I'm disappointed, angry, surprised. "I think from everything we've seen from the players throughout pre-season today was a surprise to me. "We knew it was important to try and get through the first 20 minutes and then try and get some composure and some calmness to the game, and we didn't manage to do that. "I think the basics of the game today was not good enough and for me that's not acceptable. "Whether that's getting to the ball, tackling, being aggressive and staying with runners - we knew Sheffield Wednesday were one of the best teams in the league last season at crosses and cutbacks and it was four goals from crosses and cutbacks, which we worked a lot on throughout the week, so I'm really disappointed. " Sheffield Wednesday head coach Danny Rohl told BBC Radio Sheffield: "For me the big outcome from the last six weeks was to see we are fit, we can run, we played good football with the ball and were very strong against the ball. "It was an outstanding performance, but I think this is just the first step - after six weeks you never know where you are really. "We spoke a lot during the week about how we defend, it was a big topic with the ball, but our basics are always against the ball and [to] be ready to defend as a team, to attack as a team, and it was good to see. "We showed a lot of right things, but not more. Everybody can smile today, we can enjoy it, but tomorrow we start again. " Comments can not be loaded To load Comments you need to enable Java Script in your browser Last Updated 11th August 2024 at 17: 56 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. Manager: Danny Röhl Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Wayne Rooney Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Championship All competitions All competitions All competitions The home side has won each of the last six league meetings between Sheffield Wednesday (3) and Plymouth (3) since the Pilgrims won 4-2 at Hillsborough in March 2011. Plymouth have won five of their last eight league games against Sheffield Wednesday, though all three defeats in that run have come at Hillsborough. Sheffield Wednesday haven’t won their opening league game in any of the last three seasons (D2 L1), losing 2-1 at home to Southampton in their opening game last term. Plymouth have won their opening league game in four of the last five seasons (L1), having lost six of their previous seven openers before this (W1). This will be Wayne Rooney’s first game in charge of Plymouth. 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