- What a difference a week makes - at 12:30pm last Saturday Barnsley sat in 10th place in League One and seemingly out of promotion with the gap to sixth 10 points. Fast forward to 5pm this Saturday and nine points from nine later the Reds still sit in 10th place but are now just four points off the top six and would have been only two if Charlton had not scored an injury time winner at Leyton Orient.
- This is the second time this season Barnsley have had a run of least three successive league victories, both of which have come since Boxing Day and have been separated by a run of six games without a win, five of which ended in defeat.
- It is the first time the Reds have won three league games in a week (Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday) since November 2023 when they defeated Cambridge, Port Vale and Cheltenham.
- This was only Barnsley’s fifth win in 17 League One home games this season and indeed only the fifth in the last 23 spanning 12months.
- It is the first time Barnsley have netted as many as four goals in a home league game since the opening game of last season when they defeated Port Vale 7-0 -this was also the last time there has been as many as seven goals in a Barnsley league match.
- However it is the second time in all competitions that there has been seven goals in a Barnsley game this season following the 7-0 League Cup defeat at Manchester United in September – the first time it has occurred twice in a season since 2016-2017 (4-3 win over Cardiff and 5-2 defeat to Nottingham Forest)
- This was only the second time this season and second time in 31 home league games in which Barnsley have led by two goals at half time.
- Whilst home or away it is only the third time in their 34 league games in which they have led by at least two goals (Wrexham and Lincoln at home, Crawley away in which they were 3-0 to the good.)
- This is the first time in 27 years a Barnsley home league game has finished 4-3, last occurring in their one season in the Premier League when they defeated Southampton by this scoreline in March 1998.
- The last time it occurred in any match was a League Cup first round tie against Morecambe in August 2017 which the Reds won 4-3 whilst the last time it occurred in any league game was in victory for Barnsley at Cardiff in the Championship in December 2016.
- There were four different scorers in a Barnsley game for the first time in virtually a year, last occurring on the 2nd March 2024 when Sam Cosgrove, Donovan Pines, Corey O’Keeffe and Conor Grant netted in a 4-2 win at Wycombe. It is the first time it has occurred at Oakwell since the 7-0 win at Port Vale on 2023-2024’s opening day when five different players got on the scoresheet.
- Davis Keillor-Dunn continued his red hot form by netting his third goal of the week to open the scoring, this was however the first time he has both scored and assisted a goal for Barnsley.
- He is the first Barnsley player to both score and assist since Adam Phillips against Wrexham, 10 games ago.
- It has only happened on three occasions this season with Phillips also doing so at Bolton on Boxing Day.
- Keillor-Dunn and Georgie Gent’s goals were not directly assisted, only the third time this season a Barnsley game has seen two of their goals not having a direct assist.
- This was the 13th different game Keillor-Dunn has scored in with Barnsley winning 10 of them (D2 L1)
- Phillips has netted in nine different games and Barnsley have won seven – D2.
- Five of the goals were scored in the second half, remarkably the most second half goals in a Barnsley league game since this fixture last season when Lincoln won 5-1 back in March 2024. The Imps were only 1-0 up at half time then.
- There has now been 97 goals in Barnsley’s 34 league games so far this season, 62 of which have come in the second half, compared with 35 before half time.
- 50 of those goals has now been scored by the Reds, it is 14 goals less than they had after 34 games last season.
- Max Watters is the first Barnsley substitute to score in 20 league games since Stephen Humphrys scored against Rotherham on the 8th November.
- Jovon Makama scored Lincoln’s third goal, he has now netted at Oakwell in three successive seasons, netting the final goal in their 5-1 victory last season and final goal in their 3-0 EFL victory in August 2022.
- Adam Phillips has also scored in successive Oakwell meetings having scored Barnsley’s only goal last season.
- This was Barnsley’s third league double of the season following home and away victories against Rotherham and Crawley.
- Barnsley have won back to back meetings against Lincoln for the first time since August 1979/August 1999 - these were both in the League Cup however with this the first back to back league victories since a run of six between December 1966 – April 1973.
- This is Barnsley’s first league double over the Imps since 1972-1973 when ironically they also won 2-1 away and scored four in a home victory (4-1)
- The Reds have now lost only one of the last five meetings (W2 D1)
- There has been 20 goals scored in the last four meetings – an average of five per game.
- This was however Barnsley’s first victory in five Oakwell meetings ending a run of three successive wins for the Imps.
- Barnsley scored as many as four goals at Oakwell against Lincoln for the first time in nine meetings having failed to score at all in five of those nine games.
- Despite there being seven goals scored there were only 17 shots in the game, the lowest in seven Barnsley games.
- Barnsley only had five of those shots all of which were on target and four of which they scored from.
- The total of 14 fouls was the lowest in 13 Barnsley matches.
Barnsley Team:
12. Jackson Smith
32. Josh Earl
21. Conor McCarthy
4. Marc Roberts
7. Corey O’Keeffe
8. Adam Phillips
50. Kelechi Nwakali
3. Jon Russell
17. Georgie Gent
44. Stephen Humphrys
40. Davis Keillor-Dunn
Substitutes:
20. Dexter Limbikisa (for O’Keeffe 45)
10. Josh Benson (for Phillips 58)
36. Max Watters (for Humphrys 59)
29. Connor Barratt (for Gent 82)
33. Clement Rodrigues (for Keillor-Dunn 82)
Unused Substitutes:
51. Kieran Flavell, 30. Jonathan Bland.
Lincoln Team:
31. Zach Leacock
23. Sean Roughan
4. Lewis Montsma
5. Adam Jackson
2. Tendayi Darikwa
11. Ethan Hamilton
14. Conor McGrandles
8. Tom Bayliss
15. Dom Jefferies
18. Ben House
34. Freddie Draper
Substitutions:
7. Reeco Hackett (for Hamilton 55)
27. Jovon Makama (for House 55)
25. James Collins (for Draper 55)
32. Joe Gardner (for McGrandles 73)
22. Tom Hamer (for Darikwa 80)
Unused Substitutes:
1. George Wickens, 24. Sam Clucas.
Sky Bet League One Results:
Saturday 1st March 2025:
Birmingham City (1st) 1-0 Wycombe Wanderers (2nd)
Gardner-Hickman 21
Wrexham (3rd) 0-0 Bolton Wanderers (7th)
BARNSLEY (10th) 4-3 Lincoln City (13th)
Keillor-Dunn 13
Phillips 33
Gent 53
Darikwa 67
Watters 76
Hackett 84
Makama 90+2
Bristol Rovers (20th) 2-3 Rotherham United (14th)
Sotiriou 5
Nombe 36
Jules 52
Swinkels 72
Nombe 90+2
Burton Albion (21st) 1-1 Mansfield Town (16th)
Dodgson 13
Sweeney og 52
Crawley Town (23rd) 0-2 Cambridge United (22nd)
Doyle og 33
Digby 64
Exeter City (19th) 1-1 Northampton Town (18th)
Costelloe 42
Cox 87
Leyton Orient (8th) 1-2 Charlton Athletic (6th)
Brown 50
Gillesphey 90+2
Ramsay 90+7
Peterborough United (17th) 3-1 Shrewsbury Town (24th)
Edun 8
Benning pen 14
Mothersille 35
Conn-Clarke 90+9
Stevenage (12th) 1-2 Huddersfield Town (5th)
Marshall 3
Hanlan 11
Lonwijk 24
Stockport County (4th) 2-1 Blackpool (11th)
Fletcher 7
Andresson 47
Andresson 81
Wigan Athletic (15th) 1-2 Reading (9th)
Kerr 59
Wareham 71
Bindon 85
Barnsley lie in 10th place in Sky Bet League One with 52 points from 34 games. We are 4 points off the Play-Offs, 12 points off the Automatic Promotion Places, 24 points off First Place and 19 points above the Relegation Zone.
Up to 2/3/25
Next Up:
On The Road:
Sky Bet League One Matchday Thirty Five: Charlton Athletic v Barnsley, Tuesday 4th March 2025. Kick Off: 7:45pm
At Oakwell:
Sky Bet League One Matchday Thirty Six: Barnsley v Blackpool, Saturday 8th March 2025. Kick Off: 3pm