Sky Bet Championship Matchday Thirty Two:

Team News

Reds boss Danny Wilson has almost a fully fit squad to choose from with only Bobby Hassell missing. Jacob Mellis was brought off at half time against Millwall as a precaution but has trained well all week.

Last time out - Barnsley Team:

Luke Steele

Jack Hunt

Martin Cranie

Peter Ramage

Tom Kennedy

Emmanuel Frimpong

Jim O’Brien

Dale Jennings

Jacob Mellis

Chris O’Grady

Nick Proschwitz

Head to Head

Last Six Huddersfield v Barnsley results:

31/8/13 Barnsley 2-1 Huddersfield (Championship)

4/5/13 Huddersfield 2-2 Barnsley (Championship)

10/11/12 Barnsley 0-1 Huddersfield (Championship)

15/5/06 Huddersfield 1-3 Barnsley (League One)

11/5/06 Barnsley 0-1 Huddersfield (League One)

1/4/06 Huddersfield 1-0 Barnsley (League One)

Overall Record:

Huddersfield Wins: 28

Barnsley Wins: 23

Draws: 12

Huddersfield Goals: 92

Barnsley Goals: 87

At Huddersfield:

Huddersfield Wins: 18

Barnsley Wins: 6

Draws: 7

Huddersfield Goals: 49

Barnsley Goals: 28

First Met In League: Barnsley 1-2 Huddersfield Thursday 17^th November 1910.

Biggest Win: Barnsley 7-1 Huddersfield Friday 27^th November 1998.

Biggest Defeat: Huddersfield 6-0 Barnsley Saturday 6^th September 1952.

Last Home Win: Barnsley (Chris O’Grady 8, Marcus Pedersen 31) 2-1 Huddersfield (James Vaughan 61) Saturday 31^st August 2013.

Last Away Win: Huddersfield (Jonathan Worthington 65) 1-3 Barnsley (Paul Hayes 58, Paul Reid 71, Daniel Nardiello 78) Monday 15^th May 2006.

Last Home Draw: Barnsley (Jacob Burns 42, Daniel Nardiello 81) 2-2 Huddersfield (Andy Booth 76, Gary Taylor-Fletcher 90) Saturday 31st December 2005.

Last Away Draw: Huddersfield (Jermaine Beckford 53, James Vaughan 81) 2-2 Barnsley (Chris O’Grady 14, Jason Scotland 74) Saturday 4^th May 2013.

Last Home Defeat: Barnsley 0-1 Huddersfield (Jermaine Beckford 36) Saturday 10^th November 2012.

Last Away Defeat: Huddersfield (Gary Taylor-Fletcher 55) 1-0 Barnsley Saturday 1^st April 2006.

Last Away Meeting:

Huddersfield 2 2 Barnsley

Beckford 53 O’Grady 14

Vaughan 81 Scotland 74

Huddersfield:

Alex Smithies, Calum Woods, Peter Clarke, Anthony Gerrard, Jack Hunt, Oliver Norwood (Danny Ward 46), Adam Clayton, Oscar Gobern (Keith Southern 46), Sean Scannell (Lee Novak 80), James Vaughan, Jermaine Beckford.

Unused substitutes:

Ian Bennett, Paul Dixon, Murray Wallace, Alan Lee.

Barnsley:

Luke Steele, Scott Wiseman, Martin Cranie, Tom Kennedy, Stephen Dawson (Tomasz Cywka 84), Jim O’Brien, David Perkins, Jacob Mellis (Reuben Noble-Lazarus 66), Kelvin Etuhu, Chris Dagnall (Jason Scotland 66), Chris O’Grady.

Unused substitutes:

Ben Alnwick, Jim McNulty, Marlon Harewood, Danny Rose.

Still at respective clubs:

Huddersfield: 14 (Smithies, Woods, Clarke, Gerrard, Norwood, Clayton, Gobern, Scannell, Vaughan, Bennett, Dixon, Wallace, Ward, Southern.)

Barnsley: 11 (Steele, Cranie, Kennedy, Dawson, Cywka, O’Brien, Mellis, Noble-Lazarus, Etuhu, O’Grady, Rose.)

This Season:

Last six 2013-2014 results:

Huddersfield:

22/2/14 Huddersfield 0-2 Sheffield Wednesday (Championship)

15/2/14 Birmingham 1-2 Huddersfield (Championship)

11/2/14 Huddersfield 0-3 Nottingham Forest (Championship)

8/2/14 Huddersfield 1-0 Wigan (Championship)

1/2/14 Leeds 5-1 Huddersfield (Championship)

28/1/14 Bournemouth 2-1 Huddersfield (Championship)

W: 2 D: 0 L: 4 F: 5 A: 13 GD: -8 Points: 6

Barnsley:

22/2/14 Barnsley 1-0 Millwall (Championship)

18/2/14 Wigan 2-0 Barnsley (Championship)

15/2/14 Doncaster 2-2 Barnsley (Championship)

8/2/14 Barnsley 2-2 Ipswich (Championship)

1/2/14 Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Barnsley (Championship)

28/1/14 Barnsley 2–2 Blackburn (Championship)

W: 1 D: 3 L: 2 F: 7 A: 9 GD: -2 Points: 6

Interesting Stats

Barnsley return to the scene of arguably two of their greatest days this weekend. The Reds triumphed 3-1 at Huddersfield in a League One Play-Off Semi-Final in 2006 and then secured a 2-2 draw there back in May, which saw Barnsley escape relegation back to the same division by a single point.

The Reds have won two of their last seven trips to what is now known as the John Smiths’ Stadium, but have lost just three of the last nine.

They have also lost just three of the last nine home or away and could secure their first double of the season with victory in West Yorkshire.

Despite The Reds recent good form against the Terriers, they do have a poor overall record at Huddersfield, winning just six of 31 visits.

Barnsley seem to do better at Huddersfield however than they do against them at Oakwell. August’s victory was their first against the Terriers on home soil for eight years (a total of five meetings ago)

Huddersfield were the first team to lose to Barnsley this season, back at the end of August and The Reds have won just four of the 26 league games they have played since.

The next goal for Huddersfield will be their 50^th at home against Barnsley.

The last time these two sides met at the John Smiths’ Stadium, Jack Hunt was in the Huddersfield side but is now set to line up against them for Barnsley.

Huddersfield had enjoyed a good first half of the season under former Barnsley boss Mark Robins and they sat 11^th in the Championship after a 5-1 win over Yeovil in the final game of 2013, residing just four points off the top six.

However the Terriers have lost six of their nine league matches in 2014 to drop to 14^th, 10 points adrift of sixth placed Reading.

Huddersfield are the only side in the top 15 with a minus goal difference and the 44 goals they have conceded is the most in the top 16.

Robins side are also proving vulnerable at home and have lost three of their last four home games in all competitions including a 2-0 reverse to Barnsley’s South Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday last weekend.

They have managed to score 24 goals at home in the league this season, only six teams have managed more, five of which currently reside in the top six.

They have though kept just one clean sheet in their last eight matches, conceding a total of 16 goals in that time at an average of exactly two per game.

Ref Watch:

David Coote.

2013-2014: Games: 27 Yellows: 82 Reds: 3

Coote has shown a staggering 82 yellow cards in just 27 matches, an average of three per match. He has though shown only three red cards, one of which was in his most recent outing.

Last Huddersfield match: Burnley 3-2 Huddersfield Wednesday 1^st January 2014. (Yellow card for Murray Wallace and Martin Paterson)

Last Barnsley match: Derby 2-0 Barnsley Tuesday 6^th November 2012. (Yellow card for Martin Cranie, Tom Kennedy, Tomasz Cywka and Jacob Mellis)

On This Day:

Huddersfield:

Played: 14 Won: 10 Drawn: 1 Lost: 3 Scored: 22 Conceded: 11.

Last match on the 1^st March: 2011 Hartlepool 0-1 Huddersfield (Pilkington) Att: 2,857.

Last win: 2011

Last draw: 1976

Last defeat: 2010

STAT! – Huddersfield have an excellent record on this date having won 10 of the 14 matches played, including seven of the last nine.

Barnsley:

Played: 14 Won: 2 Drawn: 4 Lost: 8 Scored: 16 Conceded: 28.

Last match on the 1^st March: 2008. Barnsley 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday. Att: 18,257.

Last win: 1997

Last draw: 2008

Last defeat: 1994

STAT! – Barnsley have almost the complete opposite record to Huddersfield on this date having won just two of 14 matches. They are unbeaten in the last three however.

Mad Sites:

www.huddersfieldtown-mad.co.uk

www.barnsley-mad.co.uk

Official Sites:

www.htafc.co.uk

www.barnsleyfc.co.uk

Other Fixtures:

Saturday 1^st March 2014:

12:15pm:

QPR v Leeds

3pm:

Bolton v Blackburn