This group of Barnsley players will go down in folklore after becoming only the SECOND Reds team to ever win seven successive league matches.
The only other time this has happened was in the 1954-1955 Third Division North title winning campaign when they won TEN in a row, the first eight of which were accompanied by clean sheets.
In this seven game run The Reds have netted 20 times and conceded just four.
Barnsley have actually won eight of their last nine league matches; a 2-0 home defeat to Wigan is the only blemish and since losing eight league games in a row Barnsley have won nine of the following 12, losing just that Wigan one.
Since going a staggering 19 games without a clean sheet, Barnsley have had four from the subsequent six and only Rochdale and Fleetwood have scored against them.
The Reds have kept three successive league clean sheets, their best run since February/March last year when they accrued five.
They have gone nine games in a row in all competitions without conceding a first half goal and have conceded only one in their last 12.
The Reds have also now only failed to score in one of their last 17 games in all competitions.
Barnsley have led at half time in each of their last four home league games.
They are still unbeaten in 2016 and have won every league game.
Marley Watkins has scored in three of the last four league games at Oakwell and has netted in three of his last five games overall.
Sam Winnall just cannot stop scoring, the January Player of the Month bagged his tenth goal in his last seven league outings and his 16th in League One this season, edging ever closer to Michael Chopra’s 17 in 2004-2005 and he has now scored in six of The Reds’ last seven league games.
He is now just one before Coventry’s Adam Armstrong (17) at the top of the League One scoring charts.
It was his 30th goal for the club and (25th league strike in 46 starts) taking him to joint 60th in the club’s all time scorers list, level with Peter Price and Steve Griffiths.
Marley Watkins, Sam Winnall and Adam Hammill all netted today. At least one of that trio has scored in each of Barnsley’s last seven league games but this is the first time all three have netted.
Today’s opponents Bury failed to register a single shot on target, the first time Barnsley have stopped the opposition testing Adam Davies since beating Walsall 3-0 last March.
This was the first league meeting between the two sides for 17 years and Barnsley’s first win against the Shakers for five clashes in all competitions, dating back to 1979.
Barnsley Team:
Adam Davies
James Bree
Kevin Long
Alfie Mawson
Aidy White
Lloyd Isgrove
Josh Brownhill (YC)
Conor Hourihane
Adam Hammill
Marley Watkins
Sam Winnall
Substitutes:
Ashley Fletcher (for Isgrove 65)
Josh Scowen (for Winnall 76)
Shaun Tuton (for Hammill 87)
Unused Substitutes:
Nick Townsend, Marc Roberts, George Williams, Jak McCourt.
Match Reports:
Sky Bet League One results:
Saturday 6th February 2016:
Burton 3-1 Bradford
Bennett 17 McArdle 90+2
Naylor 73
Duffy 77
Chesterfield 0-1 Peterborough
Nichols 55
Crewe 2-0 Rochdale
Haber 31
Inman 45
Gillingham 0-0 Swindon
Oldham P-P Blackpool
Scunthorpe P-P Doncaster
Sheffield United 0-2 Wigan
Grigg 52 pen, McAleny 55
Southend 3-0 Colchester
Wordsworth 82
Barrett 88
McQueen 90+3
Walsall 0-3 Millwall
Gregory 61,77, Romeo 70
Sunday 7th February 2016:
Port Vale 1–1 Coventry
Kelly 84 Murphy 42
Barnsley 3–0 Bury
Watkins 20
Winnall 55
Hammill 66
Fleetwood 0–0 Shrewsbury
Barnsley lie in 10th place in the Sky Bet League One with 42 points from 29 games.
We are 5 points off the Play-Offs, 14 points off the Automatic Promotion Places, 18 points off First place and 13 points above the Relegation Zone.
Up to 7/2/16
Next Up:
On The Road:
Sky Bet League One Matchday Thirty: Gillingham v Barnsley, Saturday 13th February 2016 Kick-Off 3pm.
Tickets:
Adults: £15
Under 18s: £10
Under 12s: FREE (Max 2 per adult)
Additional Under 12s: £5
At Oakwell:
Sky Bet League One Matchday Thirty-One: Barnsley v Doncaster Rovers Saturday 20th February 2016. Kick-Off: 3pm.
Tickets:
Adult: £20
Over 65s: £14
Age 17-21: £10
Under 17: £5
Under 12: £1