Sheffield Wednesday boss Darren Moore believes the League One play-offs will be “different” this season.

The Owls have secured their place in the top six along with Wanderers and Barnsley, while Derby and Peterborough will battle it out for the final spot this weekend.

There will be at least seven days between the two legs this time around, which differs from the tight turnaround of previous campaigns.

Moore reckons the extra time to prepare will affect how the games pan out as clubs compete to join Plymouth and Ipswich in the Championship next term.

"It's not that condensed where you play Saturday and then Tuesday and there's that quick turnaround,” he told Yorkshire Live. “There's lots of time to think between the games so it's different this year.”

The Owls looked set to secure automatic promotion at one stage but slipped to third in the table after a run of six matches without victory in March and April.

"There are always regrets that you can't go one better, Moore added. “But this is football, sometimes when you feel you should get the rub of the green, you haven't.

“But what we have got is another wonderful opportunity and that's what we have got to be looking at.

"The points tally this season, we know over the course of any other season where we would be. But we are in 2022-23 and we have plenty to look forward to.

“Don't look back as it costs unspent energy. Ninety three points, credit to the players and we have a full house next week against Derby and we focus on that now.”

Barnsley boss Michael Duff also expects a tough test in the play-offs but is hopeful they can go all the way.

Duff reckons League One will be challenging next season for the sides who miss out on promotion and insists the likes of Portsmouth, Oxford and Charlton will be much stronger.

"You look at the teams in the play-offs now and only one of them can go up,” he told The Yorkshire Post.

“(Those who miss out) will be stronger next year and the teams coming down, plus the Charltons and Oxfords. Portsmouth will be stronger again. If you stand still, you get left behind.

"We still have an opportunity. This group were written off before a ball was even kicked and we had a few kicks along the way early on.

"People were quite quick to jump on the bandwagon in terms of, 'it's the new board, it's rubbish, sell everyone’.

"There have been loads of positives since and the connections have been made. Can we finish it off and get that last available slot? We will do everything we can to try and make it.”