'We gave everything' - Pedersen

Sheffield Wednesday boss Henrik Pedersen has praised his side despite a 2-0 loss to Birmingham City at Hillsborough on Tuesday.

Blues broke through in the 83rd minute before doubling their lead in added time to take the three points, but the Dane was pleased with how his injury-ravaged team performed.

"I think the boys gave everything. It doesn't matter if we should come 1-0 up or 1-0 down, we should just keep going and I think the boys did that to the end today," Pedersen told BBC Radio Sheffield.

"There was a much better reaction after the 1-0. We were on top of the game after the 1-0.

"One of things that was a theme before the first game was that we need to take bigger risks if we want to create more when we come high up on the pitch. So today were really aggressive in our pressing, the best pressing game we've had.

"Today we were a little bit better to keep the ball when we wanted and we were better to play with a more risk.

"We need to take more risk to create more and I thought the boys did that really well."