Albion manager Mark McGhee has his eye on the Owls as he plots a course to Championship survival.

McGhee believes Sheffield Wednesday are the team the third-bottom Seagulls have the best chance of catching.

Albion go to mid-table Norwich tonight five points adrift of Paul Sturrock's strugglers, who play at Coventry tomorrow.

McGhee insists Albion's plight is not as bleak as it appears, especially as Wednesday are the penultimate visitors to Withdean on Easter Monday April 17.

The Yorkshiremen face a tough run-in which includes home games against Reading, Sheffield United and Preston, plus trips to Cardiff and Wolves.

"It's not as scary as it seems," McGhee said. "We've got to look at Sheffield Wednesday and Derby, particularly I think Sheffield Wednesday.

"We've got to win one more game than them between now and playing them and then we have got to beat them.

"I think if we can do that we'll stay up.

"If they win eight games then we could be struggling but I don't think they will.

"They have got very difficult fixtures and they won't take many points.

"We don't need 50 points, the likelihood is we will need 45.

"If it comes down to the fact that we need to beat Wednesday I would take that now."

Meanwhile, McGhee is hoping Norwich's powerful strikeforce does not start firing at last at Carrow Road this evening.

"They have lost players but they have got Thorne, Huckerby, Earnshaw, Mckenzie, McVeigh and Johansson, so they have tremendous attacking options," he said. "One of these days they are going to get it right."