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Steven Fletcher has scored five goals in his past three games for Sheffield Wednesday

Chris Martin's late penalty rescued a point for Derby County and stopped Sheffield Wednesday from moving into the Championship play-off places.

Martin slotted home from the spot after Jack Marriott went down in the area, having tangled with Moses Odubajo.

The visitors had taken a deserved lead when Barry Bannan intercepted Craig Forsyth's loose pass out of defence and fed Steven Fletcher who swept home from 20 yards.

Odubajo was sent off in the closing moments for a second bookable offence and the Rams, who had marked the death of former manager Jim Smith with a minute's applause before the game, nearly grabbed a winner when Marriott's header was deflected wide.

The result stretched Derby's unbeaten home run to nine games, while Wednesday are one point outside the top six.

Garry Monk's Owls had won their previous two games and will feel they should have made that three with what would have been their first victory at Pride Park since April 2006.

They were utterly dominant in the first 45 minutes but had only Fletcher's fifth goal in his past three games to show for it at the break.

On the day that Derby paid tribute to Smith, the first manager to lead them into the Premier League in 1996, this was a reminder that they are unlikely to end their 12-season spell in the Championship this campaign.

They lacked inspiration throughout and scarcely created a chance of note prior to Martin's goal, his first since 2 October.

Phillip Cocu's men, who are 16th in the table, host improving Millwall on Saturday while Wednesday visit Nottingham Forest.

Derby County manager Phillip Cocu:

"Their tactical choice was to play direct, but they didn't want us to play football.

"It took us 30 minutes to find a good way on the ball and that's a long time. You have to realise that you need to put in more effort and be more aggressive.

"I'm very pleased with the second half and it confirms to me that we can do it. You have to find a way to get a result and in the second half we were much better.

"We played with passion, played with danger and I thought we deserved to win in the end."

Sheffield Wednesday boss Garry Monk told BBC Radio Sheffield:

"I thought we were fantastic in the fist 25 minutes and we had them on the rocks but we just couldn't get that second goal.

"It was a really scrappy affair after the first 30 minutes and there wasn't much composure shown by either team. It wasn't enjoyable to watch.

"Moses gave the referee a decision to make for the penalty and we have to live with that.

"From an away perspective we have to look at it as a point gained because we ended with 10 men."