Tom Lawrence struck a brilliant first goal for Town but Gary Hooper hit back soon after for Sheffield Wednesday and the scoreline remains 1-1 - the final score in the last four games between the teams at Hillsborough - at the break.
Jonas Knudsen returned at left-back in an otherwise unchanged Town side, the Danish international having missed last week’s 2-2 home draw with Rotherham due to a back injury. Myles Kenlock dropped to the bench.
The game started brightly with both sides creating early opportunities. Blues skipper Luke Chambers did well to get across to crowd out Adam Reach after the former Middlesbrough winger had been played in down the middle in the second minute.
Play quickly moved to the other end of the field and David McGoldrick tricked his way past a defender on the edge of the box but screwed his effort well wide.
On eight Barry Bannan shot over from 20 yards after Kieran Lee had escaped down the Wednesday right and cut in.
Neither side was able to create a further chance until the 25th minute when Steven Fletcher struck a shot on the turn which Adam Webster deflected behind. From David Jones’s corner on the left, Fletcher headed powerfully over.
But Town, in their all white second strip for the first time in the Championship, had been been in what was an evenly-balanced game, albeit without conjuring an opportunity.
Until that is the 32nd minute when Lawrence put the Blues ahead with a brilliant first goal for the club.
The on-loan Leicester man dispossessed Jack Hunt just inside the Town half and brought the ball forward before cutting inside and smashing a low right-foot shot from just inside the box across keeper Keiren Westwood and into the net.
But Town’s lead lasted less than four minutes. Jones, who played for Mick McCarthy at Wolves, hit a low shot which Bartosz Bialkowski did well to keep out down to his left but Hooper reacted quickest to slam home from close range, although looking to be one of a number of Wednesday players to have strayed offside.
Reach, who was a player Town showed interest in early in the summer, headed back across goal but with none of his team-mates in the box on 41, then at the other end McGoldrick crossed too deep for Freddie Sears and Daniel Pudil headed back to his keeper while grounded.
Neither side threatened again and the scoreline at the break was a fair reflection of the half.
Wednesday had had the better of the game’s few chances prior to Lawrence’s excellent goal, while the Blues will be disappointed to have conceded so soon after grabbing the lead, even more so if replays confirm that Hooper was offside.
Sheffield Wednesday: Westwood, Jones, Lee, Fletcher, Reach, Hooper, Lees (c), Hutchinson, Hunt, Pudil, Bannan. Subs: Dawson, Abdi, Loovens, Palmer, Wallace, Buckley, Forestieri.
Town: Bialkowski, Chambers (c), Knudsen, Webster, Berra, Skuse, Bishop, Ward, Lawrence, Sears, McGoldrick. Subs: Gerken, Best, Varney, Bru, Williams, Emmanuel, Kenlock. Referee: Andrew Madley (West Yorkshire).