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A look at the likely 11 to start for Swansea City at Oakwell on Monday in the first leg of the Championship play-offs.
FREDDIE WOODMAN
Considered among the better goalkeepers in the Championship, the Newcastle United loanee is one of several players borrowed by Steve Cooper through his connections in the England youth setup. Woodman, 24, was outstanding at Oakwell at January, with several saves including a remarkable touch to deny Callum Brittain his first Barnsley goal.
BEN CABANGO
The 20-year-old Wales international came through the Swansea youth system and recently passed 50 games for the club. He scored at Oakwell in January but is not guaranteed to start there on Monday as he has missed games recently following a breach of Covid-19 rules. The other option is experienced defender Kyle Naughton.
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By Doug O’Kane
HEROES from Barnsley’s last play-off meeting with Swansea City believe the Reds can win again with a much bigger prize on offer in the upcoming Championship semi-finals.
The Reds beat the Swans on penalties after a 2-2 draw in Cardiff in the 2006 League One play-off final.
Antony Kay, who is from Darfield and now plays part-time for Welsh club Bala Town while running a coaching academy, took one of the penalties.
He told the Chronicle: “All the other clubs in the play-offs are miles bigger than Barnsley, in terms of budgets. But, on form, you would have to back Barnsley to go all the way.
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MOMENT OF THE SEASON
The appointment of Valerien Ismael
Ismael was in his kitchen in Munich in October with his wife, mulling over various job offers that they were not particularly convinced by.
Then he received a message to tell him that Barnsley were interested in making him their new head coach and the couple instantly agreed it would be the right move.
After wowing the Barnsley board over zoom, he flew to the UK on October 23, watched the Reds draw 1-1 at Millwall under caretaker Adam Murray the next day then, the day after, went to Oakwell for the first time to take training.
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Analysis of Barnsley s 2-2 draw with Norwich City on the last day of the Championship season.
REDS MUCH BETTER IN GOOD WARM-UP FOR PLAY-OFFS
This game was seen as a perfect warm-up for the play-offs, against a high-quality side who play the possession-based football often employed by the sides Barnsley will face in their battle to reach the Premier League throughout May.
Although they were without key players Teemu Pukki and Oliver Skipp and had already won the title, Norwich provided a stern final day test.
Their squad had been recruited for about £20million – much more than Barnsley s but far less than some of their play-off rivals – while ten of them were full internationals and nine of the starters had played in the Premier League.