Barnsley vs Bristol City Prediction & Betting Tips

📊 Form Guide

Barnsley

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Barnsley will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 2-1 Championship defeat last time out to Middlesbrough.

In that game, Barnsley had 61% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 1 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Barnsley was Cauley Woodrow (89'). Middlesbrough had 13 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Jonny Howson (45') and Chuba Akpom (48') scored for Middlesbrough.

Barnsley have really struggled up front in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 3 versus opposing sides during their last 6 fixtures. In those games, The Tykes have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them total 11. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see if that pattern shall continue on in this upcoming match.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Barnsley:

• haven't won against Bristol City in their last 9 league matches.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league games.

Bristol City

WWWLWW

Bristol City will come into the meeting following a 1-2 Championship win against Nottingham Forest in their previous match.

In that match, Bristol City had 49% possession and 7 shots at goal with 5 on target. For Bristol City, the scorers were Andreas Weimann (12') and Nahki Wells (22'). For their opponents, Nottingham Forest had 21 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Luke Freeman (35') scored for Nottingham Forest.

Dean Holden's Bristol City have managed to stick the ball in the net 12 times in the course of their most recent six matches. The overall goals that they have conceded during that period adds up to 5.

Leading up to this clash, Bristol City:

• have not beaten Barnsley in games played away from home for the previous 5 matches in the league. Not good.
• remain undefeated by Barnsley in away games against them for the last 4 matches in the league. A very good run of results for them.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 29/10/2016 shows that Barnsley have won 0 of these and Bristol City 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 3.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 22 overall which averages out at 3.67 goals per match.

🗞️ Team News: Barnsley

Barnsley boss Gerhard Struber will be grateful not to have any fitness worries to speak of before this clash owing to a fully healthy group ready to go.

📋 Team News: Bristol City

Owing to a fully healthy group to choose from, Bristol City boss Dean Holden has zero fitness concerns at all ahead of this match.

💡 Prediction

Bristol City and Barnsley won’t have much between them here, and goals could be hard to come by.

We’ll see, but this could easily end up all-square. We’re therefore anticipating a very even match with a 0-0 score by the conclusion of this game.

Peter Guest, 19:31 13/10/2020