Ricardo Fuller calmly slotted Stoke in front but the Owls took the lead when Jermaine Johnson fired in from an acute angle and Marcus Tudgay headed home.

However, Fuller made it 2-2 before half-time, heading home over Lee Grant.

But with time running out, Tudgay headed in his second from Graham Kavanagh's cross before Deon Burton's deflected shot clinched a crucial win.

"What still worries me is that we're giving goals away.

"The lads were savaged after the first six results, but they showed here how much they are together."

"We've got away with it but we didn't today and looked fragile. WE're pretty threadbare. We weren't at the races in the first half.

"But I thought we got the ascendancy in the second - once they got the third goal though, that knocked us flying."

Stoke: Simonsen, Zakuani, Shawcross, Wilkinson, Lawrence, Delap, Eustace, Matteo, Cresswell, Parkin (Sweeney 63), Fuller

Subs Not Used: Hoult, Buxton, Dickinson, Phillips

Booked: Shawcross, Cresswell, Matteo

Goals: Fuller 12, 41

Sheff Wed: Grant, Bullen (Hinds 46), Wood, Michael Johnson, Spurr, Jermaine Johnson (Sodje 88), Kavanagh, Whelan, O'Brien, Tudgay, Jeffers (Burton 34)

Subs Not Used: Lunt, Esajas

Booked: Burton

Goals: Jermaine Johnson 16, Tudgay 23, 85, Burton 87

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