The Owls began the season four wins from safety after being sanctioned by the EFL for a breach of Financial Fair Play regulations.
Garry Monk’s side were tipped at 5/2 for the drop, but have already taken a four-point bite out of that deficit and Luongo insists that dressing room morale is sky high.
“A lot of people wrote us off but there’s been no doom and gloom in here,” says the 28-year-old Aussie, who arrived from QPR in a £1m deal in August last year.
“If anything, the adversity has brought everyone together. We’re all aligned, because we know that if we’re not pulling our weight, the risk of us going down is quite high.
“Our attitude from the start has been ‘Ok, we’ve got a deduction, let’s get on with it’. What we do doesn’t change. The way we play doesn’t change. All that’s changed is our objectives.
Objectives
“First and foremost, we need 12 points. Until we get that back and start pushing on, nothing else really matters.
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