Sheffield Wednesday 2-2 Bristol City: Ross McCrorie's late goal seals hard-fought point for Liam Manning's Robins

Bristol City twice came from behind to earn a 2-2 draw with fellow Championship play-off contenders Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough.

Wednesday were dominant before the interval and scored through Djeidi Gassama's fourth league goal of the season, but Max O'Leary denied him on another occasion to keep the deficit at one heading into half-time.

The visitors cleaned up their act in the second period and Nahki Wells headed home an equaliser but Di'Shon Bernard restored Wednesday's lead two minutes later.

However, Wednesday were again unable to hang on and were forced to share the spoils courtesy of Ross McCrorie's late header.

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Neither team had anything to shout about in the opening quarter but clinical Wednesday had their noses in front with their first real threat.

Josh Windass broke forward and fed a ball out wide for Yan Valery, his lovely low cross was expertly tucked into the far corner by Gassama.

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City failed to make an impression in a disappointing first half and the Owls looked to threaten a second - Barry Bannan aimed to bend one in from 25 yards but O'Leary was there to comfortably meet it and make his first save of the game.

The hosts continued to push and some neat link-up play between Bannan and Gassama allowed the latter to get his shot off but he was denied by the outstretched O'Leary who was able to palm wide of the target.

Just 36 seconds after the interval, Bannan tried his luck with an audacious effort from 35 yards to see if O'Leary was alert but the City keeper produced an easy save.

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The Robins punished their opponents for all their missed chances with their first effort on target in the 53rd minute.

Rob Dickie picked out a wonderful pass to Mark Sykes and he delivered a ball for Wells who headed emphatically beyond Owls keeper James Beadle.

But City were only level for 111 seconds before Wednesday regained the advantage.

Bannan was pulling the strings in midfield and fed a pass into Bernard, who created an opening with some clever footwork and dispatched it into the bottom corner.

City started to enjoy their best spell of the game as they went in search of an equaliser and Luke McNally should have done better to get his free header on target from Max Bird's corner.

Wednesday sat deeper and paid the price four minutes from time when another Sykes cross caused problems and this time McNally headed back across goal for McCrorie to nod in his first for the club.

And the visitors were millimetres away from snatching all three points as Sam Bell rattled the crossbar in the 90th minute.

The managers

Sheffield Wednesday's Danny Rohl:

"I think until 60 minutes, it was a good performance, but the last 30 minutes is not acceptable. Too passive, never got the pressure on the ball.

"I think there are too many draws at home. I was disappointed about me, that maybe I didn't choose the right players to play the end of the game to help my team on the pitch and off the pitch.

"It's hard to take the draw, even though we played against a good side. There is a reason why they are around our position. This is not a team who are doing better, they are doing well, they took the same points as us in the last 10 games.

"When you compare from where we've come, you should not forget this last year. And now we fight for really special things.

"We consistently take points, we are hard to beat, it's not easy to play against Sheffield Wednesday, all positive things.

"Since I arrived, I changed the mentality and we want to win games, we are hungry. There are still 18 games, anything is possible in this league."

Bristol City's Liam Manning:

"Mixed emotions. First half they shaded it but second half we showed a real belief, purpose and intent.

"Marginally frustrated not coming away with more. The lads who came in had a massive impact, and Belly (Sam Bell) nearly nicked it at the end.

"I thought the changes we made raised the intensity, we pressed well. We passed the ball really well on a terrible pitch to be fair so the lads showed some bravery. It's (the pitch) terrible, not at the level."

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