- Barnsley’s season is now all but over after another Oakwell horror show left the Reds eight points adrift of the play-offs following an seventh loss in 11 league games.
- This was also their seventh home league loss of the season (two more than they have won) only five sides have lost more on their own turf and four of those teams occupy the bottom five places in the division.
- They have now lost as many home games in 2024-2025 as they did in the whole of 2023-2024 with five home games still to come.
- They have lost as many home league games this season as they lost home or away in 2018-2019, last losing more home games in a third tier season back in 2015-2016 when they lost eight –six of which came before the new year.
- This was their 14th league defeat overall this season again their most in the third tier since 2015-2016 when they lost 16. It is two more than they have lost in each of the previous two campaigns.
- This was the second successive home game in which Barnsley have conceded three goals, the first time this has occurred since August 2023 when they lost successive home games 3-1.
- It is the first time they have conceded three second half goals in successive home league games since September 2014 against MK Dons (3-5 defeat) and Swindon (0-3 defeat)
- Barnsley have now conceded 29 league goals at Oakwell this season, nobody has conceded more on their own patch in the division (Burton have also conceded 29) whilst only Plymouth have let in more home goals in the EFL (31)
- Overall they have conceded 51 league goals this season, currently only seven League One teams have conceded more and they currently occupy 22, 19, 24, 23, 17, 20 and 21 in the table.
- Barnsley have now conceded seven second half goals in their past four matches, whilst there has now been a staggering 63 second half goals in Barnsley’s 36 league games this season – 64% of the 101 in total.
- Sonny Carey bagged a brace, the third opponent to score twice at Oakwell this season following Luke Berry for Charlton and Sam Smith for Reading.
- Ashley Fletcher scored the other goal, the first ex Red to net against them since Berry in that aforementioned match.
- This is the first time this season Barnsley have gone back to back league games without scoring and indeed first time for exactly 12 months (0-0 draw with Cheltenham and 2-0 defeat to Cambridge in March 2024)
- Barnsley now have a -1 goal difference, the first time they have been in minus on the 8th March of a third tier season since 2015 when it was also -1 – incidentally it was +25 on this date last season.
- Barnsley have lost back to back games on four separate occasions this season, the most in a second tier campaign since 2014-2015 (6)
- Barnsley have now lost six of their last seven meetings with Blackpool.
- This was Barnsley’s heaviest defeat against the Seasiders since a 4-1 FA Cup reverse in November 2002 whilst it’s the heaviest league defeat since a 3-0 defeat at Bloomfield Road in March 1936.
- This was however Blackpool’s biggest ever win at Oakwell and ensured they have won three successive games there for the first time ever.
- Those three wins have all been accompanied with clean sheets, the first time they have kept three successive shutouts at Oakwell.
- Blackpool have won four of their last five visits, prior to this their previous four victories had come across 13 visits.
- There were 34 shots in the game, the most for 10 Barnsley games since Bristol Rovers away in January (36) another game in which Barnsley conceded three goals.
- It is the most in a Barnsley home league game this season and most since the 13th April 2024 when there was a staggering 47 in a meeting with Reading.
- Blackpool had eight shots on target, the most by an opponent in a league game at Oakwell this season and most since Lincoln had 10 in their 5-1 win 12months ago this weekend.
Barnsley Team:
12. Jackson Smith
29. Connor Barratt
4. Marc Roberts
21. Conor McCarthy
7. Corey O’Keeffe
3. Jon Russell
48. Luca Connell
22. Neil Farrugia
40. Davis Keillor-Dunn
36. Max Watters
44. Stephen Humphrys
Substitutes:
10. Josh Benson (for Watters 61)
50. Kelechi Nwakali (for Connell 61)
33. Clement Rodrigues (for Barratt 65)
41. Bayley McCann (for Farrugia 88)
Unused Substitutes:
51. Kieran Flavell, 20. Dexter Limbikisa, 30. Jonathan Bland.
Blackpool Team:
30. Harry Tyrer
24. Odeluga Offiah
5. Matthew Pennington
20. Oliver Casey
15. Hayden Coulson
25. Robert Apter
7. Lee Evans
8. Albie Morgan
10. Sonny Carey
11. Ashley Fletcher
21. Niall Ennis
Substitutions:
4. Jordan Lawrence-Gabriel (for Offiah 77)
17. Josh Onomah (for Apter 77)
18. Jake Beesley (for Ennis 77)
19. Sam Silvera (for Fletcher 77)
12. Elkan Baggott (for Coulson 85)
Unused Substitutes:
1. Richard O’Donnell, 3. James Husband.
Sky Bet League One Results:
Saturday 8th March 2025:
Crawley Town (22nd) 1-1 Reading (8th)
Ehibhatiomhan 29
Camara 90
Stockport County (4th) 0-0 Charlton Athletic (5th)
Barnsley (10th) 0-3 Blackpool (11th)
Carey 56
Fletcher 64
Carey 73
Birmingham City (1st) 1-0 Lincoln City (13th)
Dowell pen 71
Bristol Rovers (20th) 1-0 Huddersfield Town (7th)
Sotiriou 10
Burton Albion (21st) 1-2 Bolton Wanderers (6th)
Morley 22
Sweeney 53
Sheehan 60
Exeter City (18th) 2-0 Shrewsbury Town (24th)
Watts 29
Mitchell 48
Leyton Orient (9th) 1-2 Northampton Town (17th)
Roberts 11
McGeehan 45
Kelman 60
Peterborough United (19th) 1-1 Wycombe Wanderers (2nd)
Mothersille pen 16
Kone 90+3
Stevenage (12th) 1-1 Mansfield Town (16th)
Reid 44
Rhodes 81
Wigan Athletic (15th) 1-0 Cambridge United (23rd)
Robinson 77
Wrexham (3rd) 1-0 Rotherham United (14th)
Smith 48
Barnsley lie in 10th place in Sky Bet League One with 52 points from 36 games. We are 8 points off the Play-Offs, 16 points off the Automatic Promotion Places, 27 points off First Place and 19 points above the Relegation Zone.
Up to 8/3/25
Next Up:
On The Road:
Sky Bet League One Matchday Thirty Seven: Mansfield Town v Barnsley, Saturday 15th March 2025. Kick Off: 3pm
At Oakwell:
Sky Bet League One Matchday Thirty Eight: Barnsley v Cambridge United, Saturday 22nd March 2025. Kick Off: 3pm