Sheffield Wednesday boss Danny Röhl is urging the Owls to ‘be ruthless, be nasty’ to boost his side’s survival chances, and dent Norwich City’s Championship play-off charge on Tuesday.

Röhl has guided the strugglers to within two points of safety in a season which has seen the Hillsborough outfit spend the last three months in the relegation places.

But the highly-rated German plotted a priceless 2-0 away win at QPR at the weekend, while David Wagner’s squad were easing to a 1-0 derby victory against an Ipswich who hammered the Owls 6-0 last month.

“I think that Norwich are very strong at the moment,” said Röhl, quoted by the Sheffield Star. “They’ve lost only two of their last 12, and they just beat Ipswich. We know what it means to play against Ipswich.

"But they need to come to us, and you see it at both ends of the table at the moment that everybody is ready, everybody is fighting for goals, and that’s what we need to do on Tuesday.

"We need to try and create something, stay in the game, do our jobs right and be ruthless, be nasty. They need to be men, and do the things that I demand of them.”

The Owls go into Tuesday’s home game buoyed by a first win in five at Loftus Road.

"I saw a big reaction from my team. I wanted to see a team who is fighting for this club, not thinking too much about the future,” said Röhl, speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield. “Some players showed in the past they're not ready for this fight, but I saw a team who was.

"We changed the shape and I changed five players. We changed some things and I wanted to see a reaction and we got one. I enjoyed it, the next opponent, Norwich, will be tough, and we look to that game now.”