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The players who took Barnsley into the Championship play-offs. Mads Andersen 53 games (1 goal) No one personifies Barnsley’s turnaround from last. ....
× 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. ....
× Barnsley s run of six straight away wins ended with a 2-0 loss at Coventry City on Sunday. The hosts scored early then defended well against a Reds side who were not at their best in one of their weaker performances in recent months and conceded another goal deep in injury-time. Barnsley remain sixth, four points clear of seventh-placed Reading with four games to play. Valerien Ismael made one change from the side that beat Middlesbrough last weekend as Conor Chaplin replaced Dominik Frieser. The hosts started well and took the lead in the ninth minute when centre-back Dom Hyam smashed a powerful shot into the bottom right corner from 15 yards after the Reds did not defend a throw-in on the right. ....
× BARNSLEY captain Alex Mowatt is ‘holding off’ on signing a new contract until the summer – but staying at Oakwell is his ‘number one option’ insists chief executive Dane Murphy. The much-admired midfielder’s contract expires at the end of the season, with the Reds offering him a new deal last month. Mowatt has been a regular presence in central midfield for the last three seasons, playing 141 games and scoring 16 goals since signing from Leeds United four years ago. Murphy told the Chronicle: “It’s well-documented we have spoken to Alex and his representatives multiple times. “We offered him a new contract in the January transfer window and he’s held off on that for now. ....
7:49pm GOAL! Sean Maguire opens the scoring in the second minute. Barnsley dispute it but the referee and linesman rule it has crossed the line. 7:50pm It was a corner from the left wing, flicked on and headed at the back post by Maguire. Walton looked to have saved it but a goal was given 7:52pm 7:53pm 6 Chance for a leveller as a free-kick from the right-wing is met at the back post by Mads Andersen but he heads wide seven yards out than kicks the advertising hoarding angrily 7:54pm 7:55pm 7:58pm 12 Brittain fires a wicket cross-come-shot from the right of the box which goalkeeper Rudd pushes away for a corner ....