Barnsley currently sit 22nd in the Championship and eight points adrift of safety, although, they do have a game in hand on 21st-placed Reading, with Poya Asbaghi’s team set to travel to South Wales on Friday. The Swansea.com Stadium is the venue for the South Yorkshire side this week, when they will face an in-form Swansea City, who enter this encounter five-games unbeaten.

Preview: Swansea vs. Barnsley – prediction, team news, lineups

Russell Martin’s side won three consecutive games for the first time this season, after securing a 2-1 win over relegation-threatened Derby County on Saturday. A brace from Joel Piroe inside 16 minutes of that match set the Swans up well for another three points, but the visitors did make the hosts work hard for their victory after getting back into the game with a Tom Lawrence penalty. Continue reading ”                 PREVIEW: SWANSEA CITY VS BARNSLEY PREDICTION & TEAM NEWS”

Barnsley were on a run of three games without defeat in the English Championship before they travelled to take on home team Sheffield United on Saturday. At the end of proceedings, their three-match unbeaten run came to an and courtesy the 2-0 defeat at the hands of the Blades.

It has been an alarming turnaround in form for Barnsley when one compares this season to last season on the English Championship scene. The Owls were in the Championship playoffs last season against all expectations under French manager Valerien Ismael before they were beaten by Welsh team Swansea City in the semifinals. Ismael left the club to join West Brom and things began to fall apart at Barnsley with the club spending this season in the relegation zone. They have shown signs of life in the quest to survive the Championship relegation zone inrecent weeks as highlighted by the recent run of going three games without defeat since the 2-0 loss at fellow Championship strugglers Derby County last month. Continue reading “BARNSLEY UNBEATEN RUN ENDS AT SHEFFIELD”

Sheffield United manager SlavisaJokanovic has been handed a double selection problems ahead of the West Yorkshire Derby clash with Barnsley away from home on Sunday. The Sheffield United boss will have to tweak his starting XI for the short trip to Oakwell due to the absence of Wolves loanee Morgan Gibbs-White.

England junior international Gibbs-White will miss the Barnsley clash after he was sent off during the 2-1 home defeat to London club Millwall on Tuesday night. Gibbs-White is on loan at Sheffield United from Premier League side Wolves and he was given his marching orders after receiving two yellow cards thus ruling him out of the Championship clash with Barnsley.
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