Wednesday chalked up a second home draw inside four days in a goalless draw with Blackburn at Hillsborough this evening.

The end-of-match stat which showed no efforts on target for us and only two for the visitors just about summed up a match that won’t live long in the memory … but for our injury-ravaged and already limited squad it was another well-earned point and a rare home game without conceding a goal.

We lost experienced defender Liam Cooper shortly before kick off after he suffered an allergic reaction but young replacement Cole McGhee stepped up in promising fashion.

Blackburn opened up looking the sharper and more creative side and, after Todd Cantwell had gone close, only a last-ditch challenge from McGhee stopped Yuki Ohashi scoring from close-in.

Our only chance of the half  came on 29 minutes when Charlie McNeill’s excellent ball found Barry Bannan racing clear but the skipper’s chip over keeper Aynsley Pears from 15 yards finished agonisingly just wide of the far post.

Blackburn began the second half on the front foot again with Matty Litherland seeing an angled drive pushed away by Pierce Charles.

Ohashi missed another opening for the visitors when he headed wide from six yards but with four minutes left on the clock we almost grabbed a winner in a rare second-half attack.

Bannan found Harry Amass down the left with a quick free kick, the defender’s cross to the far post was turned back by McGhee but Gabriel Otegbayo stabbed the chance just wide from inside the six-yard box.

Charles, Palmer, Iorfa, McGhee, Otegbayo, Amass, McNeill, Thornton (Shipston 79), Bannan, J. Lowe (Ingelsson 62), Cadamarteri. Unused subs:  Horvath, Emery, Johnson, Onukwuli, Grainger, Moses. Attendance: 22.532.