Sheffield Wednesday’s relegation rivals Birmingham City will hope they can trust on long-serving forward Lukas Jutkiewicz for their season-defining meeting with Norwich City on Saturday. Birmingham find themselves in a perilous situation head into their last game, having to overcome playoff-bound Norwich City to stand a chance of survival, while they also need results elsewhere to go their way.

One of those results might involve the Owls, with Birmingham needing to win and hope either Plymouth Argyle draw or lose, or that Wednesday or Blackburn Rovers lose. Ahead of the Norwich meeting, Birmingham expect to be able to have striker Jutkiewicz after the veteran proclaimed himself fit to face Huddersfield Town last time out, coming off the bench, albeit he is still struggling after a long-term knee ailment.

“Jukey epitomises everything you need at this stage of the season,” stated Blues boss Gary Rowett. “As he has done so many times, he just wants to get out there. He’s running about with more tape on him than I’ve ever seen in my life. He is going to do his best to be available. I think that’s extremely inspirational. That’s what you need to look at at this stage of the season, someone who has had to do it so many times but really cannot do it any other way but be incredibly professional.

“If he is available then at some point in the game he could be absolutely vital to change the game. We haven’t got the opportunity to do that at all really, so he could certainly give us a new outlet should we need it late on.”

Elsewhere, Birmingham will be without Oliver Burke, who has suffered a setback in his comeback, and long-term absence Alfie Chang.