Gary Hooper's first-half double helped Sheffield Wednesday to victory over Yorkshire rivals Leeds at Hillsborough.

Gary hooper's first-1/2 double helped sheffield wednesday to victory over yorkshire competitors leeds at hillsborough.

Both of hooper's desires have been near-range finishes from knockdowns in the box and he may want to have had a hat-trick, however hit the bar in second-half stoppage time.

Kieran lee drilled in sweetly from 30 yards for the owls' third, sealing a first win in 4 championship suits.

Leeds, for whom pierre-michel lasogga hit the put up, slipped to fifth with their third loss in four league video games.

Relive wednesday's win over leeds
Their defeat become compounded by means of the loss of defender pontus jansson, who had to depart the sphere on a stretcher inside the 2nd 1/2 after colliding with team-mate kalvin phillips.

Owls head educate carlos carvalhal, who guided wednesday to the play-offs in each of the past  seasons, stated earlier than the match that he understood the stress of his position and did not worry losing his job after a enormously sluggish begin to the marketing campaign.

His team replied to defeats via town competitors sheffield united and managerless birmingham with an top notch show towards one of the championship's early pacesetters.

But they needed to live on an initial onslaught on their intention from leeds, with phillips and ezgjan alioski heading extensive and kemar roofe forcing a first-rate store from goalkeeper joe wildsmith in the first 20 minutes.

As soon as hooper had became in tom lees' header for wednesday's opener, the home facet assumed manipulate and steven fletcher someway nodded wide from 5 yards earlier than the scot provided the headed help for his strike companion's 2nd of the game.

Hooper has netted seven desires in his beyond seven appearances for the owls and is the championship's joint-leading scorer alongside bristol town's bobby reid and jarrod bowen of hull.

Barry bannan, who was outstanding in midfield for the hosts, struck the submit from 18 yards before a beautifully taken third with the aid of lee - who had a primary-half of effort wrongly dominated out for offside.