"He is a very intelligent player and knows how to finish and how to get the best out of the crowd.

"We've kept an important clean sheet. Once or twice the decision making wasn't brilliant, but we also had some luck along the way and I was delighted.

"There are some top players here so to have kept them as quiet as we did do was very good. We needed to stop the service to the strikers and put pressure on in the right areas and we did. It made Peter Whittingham go inside more and meant the delivery wasn't coming in from the wide areas.

"We have seen Cardiff City hammer teams this season and to play like we did and get the three points was superb. We are always looking up the table. Even after the defeats we suffered we have continued to look forward. Before the game we said it was a 15 game mini-season and we have won the first game".

Mark was talking to www.barnsleyfc.co.uk