Brian Laws felt his team were unlucky to lose out by a 3-1 scoreline to Wolves, after the visitors pressed home their advantage in the second half.

Laws' view was that Wednesday were the better outfit in the first period and he praised his players for their effort.

"There is a great deal of effort being put in by the players and 3-1 didn't reflect the game itself," the Owls boss said. "In the first half we had 12 shots at their goal compared to their two. I thought we were the better side, looked dangerous and created a lot."

A goal by Michael Kightly soon after the restart deflated Wednesday and they were picked off late on as they looked for another equaliser. Laws felt nerves played a part but stressed the need for improvement.

"In the second half it was important that we wanted to keep it tight and step up another gear, but the second goal gave us a kick in the backside.

From then we started to get a bit nervy and the third goal was purely because we were gambling in the last few minutes.

"There are positives to take but we also know where our problems are too. We need to sort that out, we can't ship in goals like that."