AT LAST! Poya Asbaghi finally ended his long, club record run without a league victory as Barnsley secured three points for only the third time this season and first time in 15 matches, 12 of which have been under Asbaghi.
It was also the first league match in which they have taken the lead under the Swede and only the sixth time in 30 league games in 2021-2022 that they have opened the scoring.
It’s only Barnsley’s third home win of the season – the third worst home record in the Championship – their lowest amount of home wins at this stage of a season since the relegation campaign of 2018-2019 when they had also only won three of 15.
The Reds kept a clean sheet for only the fifth time in their 30 league outings and the first in eight since a 0-0 draw with West Brom on the 17th December.
Seven league games is their longest wait for a league clean sheet at the start of a calendar year since 2020 when they waited nine.
This was only Barnsley’s second league win in 28 outings (W2 D7 L19)
Two of their three league wins have been accompanied by clean sheets and both were 1-0.
Going into this match QPR sat 4th in the table and it is the first time Barnsley have defeated a side in the Championship’s top six since February 2021 when the then 15th placed Barnsley won 2-0 at second placed Brentford.
Prior to this game QPR had scored in 21 successive Championship away games stretching back to February last year.
Barnsley have now won five of the last six meetings with QPR (D1) and are unbeaten against the West London outfit since a 1-0 defeat at Loftus Road in February 2018.
They have kept clean sheets in three of those six matches.
They have also won four of the last five clashes at Oakwell and have lost only three of the last 16 meetings there – a run of three successive defeats between April 2010 and May 2014.
There were 31 shots in the game, the most in a Barnsley match since Huddersfield at home on the 4th December.
19 of those shots came from Barnsley, their most in a league game this season and most since Huddersfield away in April (21)
Barnsley Team:
40. Brad Collins
2. Jordan Williams
30. Michal Helik
6. Mads Andersen
17. Claudio Gomes
4. Callum Styles
10. Josh Benson
28. Domingos Quina
26. Remy Vita
14. Carlton Morris
27. Amine Bassi
Substitutes:
21. Romal Palmer (for Benson 69)
44. Devante Cole (for Quina 81)
Unused Substitutes:
1. Jack Walton, 15. Jasper Moon, 23. Will Hondermarck, 24. Aapo Halme, 33. Matty Wolfe.
QPR Team:
25. David Marshall
3. Lee Wallace
4. Rob Dickie
6. Yoann Barbet
9. Lyndon Dykes
11. Ilias Chair
15. Sam Field
19. Andre Gray
20. Jimmy Dunne
22. Moses Odubajo
27. Jeff Hendrick
Substitutions:
7. Stefan Johansen (for Hendrick 62)
11. Charlie Austin (for Gray 62)
37. Albert Adomah (for Wallace 67)
Unused Substitutes:
1. Seny Dieng, 8. Luke Amos, 14. George Thomas, 28. Dion Sanderson.
QPR manager Mark Warburton said:
"It was a poor performance. You have to earn things out of games of football.
"We lacked fluidity in the first half and went in 0-0. We knew what we had to do in the second half and, in truth, didn't do it.
"As a team we didn't do enough. I was more than wary of Barnsley. They'd lost seven in a row and the law of averages tells you that they're due to win a game.
"We were nowhere near our best. I felt we were very laboured and slow against an opponent who are fighting for their lives."
Match Reports:
Sky Bet Championship Results
SATURDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2022
Huddersfield Town 0-0 Sheffield United
BARNSLEY 1-0 Queens Park Rangers
Quina 74
Birmingham City 3-0 Luton Town
Bacuna 25
Taylor 46
Hernandez 69
Blackpool 1-2 AFC Bournemouth
Bowler 37
Lowe 86
Dembele 90+5
Hull City 0-1 Fulham
Mitrovic 57
Middlesbrough 4-1 Derby County
Buchanan og 15
Bird 39
Connolly 44
Crooks 45+3
Watmore 89
Millwall 2-1 Cardiff City
Wallace 73
Bennett 82
Bagan 90+2
Nottingham Forest 2-2 Stoke City
Johnson 56
Maja 68
Baker pen 88
Yates 90+2
Peterborough United 0-1 Preston North End
Archer 80
Reading 2-3 Coventry City
Joao 23
Hyam 45+2
Rose 47
Yiadom 55
Maatsen 65
SUNDAY 13TH FEBRUARY 2022
Swansea City 3-1 Bristol City
Weimann 42
Obafemi 54
Christie 79
Piroe 90+4
Barnsley lie in 24th place in the Sky Bet Championship with 17 points from 30 games. We are 32 points off the Play-Offs, 41 points off the Automatic Promotion Places, 47 points off First Place and 5 points inside the Relegation Zone.
Up to 13/02/22
Next Up:
On The Road:
Sky Bet Championship Matchday Thirty One: Coventry City v Barnsley, Saturday 19th February 2022. Kick-Off: 3pm
At Oakwell:
Sky Bet Championship Matchday Thirty Three: Barnsley v Middlesbrough, Saturday 26th February 2022. Kick-Off: 3pm