Sheffield Wednesday are looking to complete a league double over Derby County for the first time since the 2005-06 campaign.
Derby are looking to avoid losing three league games in a row against Sheffield Wednesday for the first time since between 1930 and 1932 (5 in a row).
Sheffield Wednesday have won their opening league game in each of the last two calendar years, scoring eight goals in the process (5-0 vs. Cambridge, 3-1 vs. Hull), last doing so in three years consecutively between 2014 and 2016.
Derby County are winless in their last five league games played on New Year’s Day (D2 L3), last winning on January 1 in 2013 at home to Middlesbrough.
Derby manager Paul Warne has won two of his last three league visits to Hillsborough (L1) and in his most recent in the Championship, he won 2-1 with Rotherham United in March 2021.

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