AARON Wilbraham saved Wanderers with a 94th minute header to earn a point at Sheffield Wednesday.

The veteran striker headed home Filipe Morais’s cross late in stoppage time after George Boyd had given the Owls an undeserved lead 12 minutes from the end.

Wanderers had dominated the last hour of the game at Hillsborough against their nervy, disjointed hosts, and should have scored through Will Buckley midway through the first half.

But they were hit by the sucker punch when referee Darren Bond over-ruled a linesman’s offside decision to award Boyd’s goal.

“It is a huge relief but we definitely deserved a result,” said Phil Parkinson after the final whistle.

“Jordan Rhodes is offside, the linesman flagged, we haven’t stopped but he impacted on Mark Beevers’ position to go and block the shot. It has to be interfering with play.

“It is incredible in this era that a striker dead centre in goal is not offside. He is offside.

“You could see from the way we played that it affected us but we dug in and got the equaliser.”

At 38, Wilbraham had not scored for over a year – his last coming for Bristol City in February 2017.

But his first goal for Wanderers sent nearly 2,000 travelling supporters crazy behind the Wednesday goal, and was just reward for his patience, said Parkinson.

“It’s a great goal from Albi. He has come in and because of Madine’s form early in the season he hasn’t had the contribution he’d like.

“It is difficult when you get 10-15 minutes but every game he’s started, we’ve won.

“He’s an integral part of the dressing room in the way he conducts himself, the way he helps us lead the standards in training – and if anyone deserves that goal, it’s Aaron Wilbraham.”