📏 Form Guide

Burton Albion

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Burton Albion head into this game following on from a 1-1 League One tied result versus Wigan Athletic.

For Burton Albion, the goalscorers were Sam Hughes (43' Own goal) and John Brayford (54').

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Burton Albion have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Burton Albion have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 8 goals on the way. We will have to find out if that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Heading into this fixture, Burton Albion are without a home win in the past 5 league games. That's never good.

Barnsley

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Cambridge United in League One action, Barnsley and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

The only name on the scoresheet from Barnsley was Maël de Gevigney (13' Own goal). Gassan Ahadme (72') scored for Cambridge United.

Barnsley have regularly broken through opposing defences in the lead-up to this encounter, having scored 12 goals in their previous 6 matches. While their manager Neill Collins will no doubt take that as a positive sign, Barnsley have been somewhat leaky at the back, having also been scored against in 5 of those same matches.

Taking a look at their past results, Barnsley:

• haven't won against Burton Albion in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their last 10 away league matches. They really have been good on their travels.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 20/02/2018 shows that Burton Albion have won 3 of these and Barnsley 2, with the number of drawn results being 1.

In all, 14 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 7 of them from The Brewers and 7 created by The Tykes. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was League One match day 8 on 16/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Barnsley 2-0 Burton Albion.

The referee was Marc Edwards.

📋 Team News: Burton Albion

The Burton Albion manager Martin Paterson has zero fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this match owing to a fully healthy squad to choose from.

ℹ️ Team News: Barnsley

Owing to a fully healthy squad to pick from, the Barnsley boss Neill Collins doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game.

🔮 Prediction

Our thinking is that Burton Albion will need things to go their way to put one past this Barnsley team who we think will be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a highly competitive game with a 0-1 advantage for Barnsley at the end of the 90 minutes.

Let’s see how this one goes.

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Lucas Pereira, 13:05 01/04/2024