ITS the team with one of the best away records against the side with the best home form when Wednesday clash with QPR at Loftus Road tomorrow.
It's also a contest between the two best-supported clubs in Division Two.
QPR, with an average attendance of 14,000 compared to Wednesday's 22,000, have surged to the top of the table and have begun to justify their pre-season rating by the bookies as one of the promotion front-runners.
Ian Holloway's side are unbeaten in the league at Loftus Road and recently pulled off a 3-0 win against Plymouth, which looks outstanding in view of the fact that the Pilgims outplayed Wednesday comprehensively and were the best side that the Owls have faced this season.
Both Wednesday and Rangers are looking to regain lost status, and each have a player who can look back on the last time the clubs met at Loftus Road, when they were both in the Premiership.
It was in August, 1994. Kevin Gallen - a key player for Rangers today - scored, as did Les Ferdinand and Trevor Sinclair, in a 3-2 win, and it was Kevin Pressman who picked the ball out of the net.
Gallen finished up with 14 goals that season as a 19-year-old in his first senior season, and Rangers finished eighth, above Chelsea and Arsenal.
Now the 28-year-old has only six goals this season but he and his partner, ex-Bristol City striker Tony Thorpe, will be a threat to Wednesday's reshaped defence.
The Owls, with Derek Geary suspended, could switch Leigh Bromby to right-back or wing-back and bring in Richard Wood on the left.
Chris Turner admits: "In Gallen they have the sort of scorer we've been looking for.
"He's the type of player who can nick a goal that changes a game. QPR are strong, powerful, and have the right balance, the sort of balance and settled team we would like. Our squad has only been together for a matter of months."
The Owls boss thought about recalling Guylain Ndumbu-Nsungu. The Congo international scored for the reserves but did not do enough to force his way into the first team.
Turner explained: "Guylain is only 20; we had two weeks without a reserve game and he was away for nearly two weeks with Congo. He needs games. You don't throw young players to the wolves."