Barnsley edged closer to a League One relegation scrap
after conceding at least three times for the sixth time in seven matches in all
competitions which leaves them out of the bottom four only on goal difference.
A total of 23 goals has been conceded in those seven
matches and resulted in five defeats.
Barnsley have gone seven games without victory in any
competition for the first time since another run of seven between the 4th March
2025 and 5th April 2025 (D2 L5)
They have lost three successive matches for the first
time in 2026, last occurring in the final three games of 2025.
They have lost 50% of their league games now - the first
time they have lost as many as four of the first eight since the 2019-2020
Championship season when they lost five. It is the first time at this level for
47 years (1979-1980) when they had won four and lost four.
They have conceded 15 goals in these first eight games -
only three teams (Wycombe/Bromley 20 and Burton 16) have conceded more League
One goals this season.
Barnsley have conceded three plus goals in three successive games (all comps) for the
second time this season - prior to this season it hadn't even happened once for
nine years.
This was only the second time Barnsley have a led a
league game this season at half time (also at Leyton Orient) and the first time
they have lost a league game they have led at the break since February at
Huddersfield (They have led at half time in six league games since and had gone
on to win four)
The reverse to the Terriers was 2-1 so this was
Barnsley's heaviest defeat when leading at half time since September 2021
against Nottingham Forest (also 3-1)
There has been 16 second half goals in Barnsley's eight
league games, compared to only seven in the first half whereas in all
competitions the last first half goal Barnsley conceded was to Leeds United
Under 21s Josh McDonald, they have conceded eight second half goals since.
The Reds have kept only one clean sheet this season (from 13
matches in all competitions) and have kept only two in the last 18 stretching
back to April.
They have staggeringly kept only three clean sheets in their past
41 League One games.
This was Stockport’s
32nd win against Barnsley equalling the amount they have lost
against the Reds (there has also been 34 draws.)
Three of those
victories have come in the past four meetings (D1) whilst Barnsley have failed
to win any of the last seven meetings (D4 L3) with their last victory way back
in 2004.
Stockport have won
the last two meetings 3-1.
Barnsley have
scored only one goal in each of the last five meetings.
Barnsley have lost
two of their last three visits to Edgeley Park – as many as they had lost in
the previous nine trips.
Despite scoring
only once Barnsley had nine shots on target, their most in an away league game
in eight away matches since also having having nine at Rotherham April.
There has been
exactly 17 corners awarded in three of Barnsley’s last four matches.
There were only 17
fouls, only against Blackpool (16) has there been fewer in a Barnsley league
game this season.
Barnsley:
25. Rogan Ravenhill
11. Tyrese Noslin
6. Connor O’Riordan
5. Jack Shepherd
2. Arley Kay
17. Amani Richards
8. Cameron McGeehan
22. Patrick Kelly
45. Vimal Yoganathan
19. Reyes Cleary
32. Rylan Brownlie
Substitutes:
12. Jubril Okedina (for Noslin 63)
4. Sam Gale (for O’Riordan 70)
30. Jonathan Bland (for Brownlie 70)
46. O’Rian Reid (for Yoganathan 82)
Unused Substitutes:
51. Kieren Flavell, 13. Clayton Taylor, 36.
Luke Alker.
Stockport
Team:
1. Oliver Whatmuff
24. Kyron Gordon
6. Eoghan O’Connell
5. Ethan Pye
15. Ryan Glover
4. Lewis Bate
10. Oliver Norwood
23. Ben Osborn
7. Jack Diamond
19. Kyle Wootton
16. Harry Wood
Substitutions:
18. Lewis Fiorini (for Bate 45)
20. Jason Adigun (for Wood 66)
22. Mikael Mandron (for Diamond 86)
2. Josh Dacres-Cogley (for Glover 86)
25. Mamadou Jobe (for Osborn 90+5)
Unused
Substitutes:
30.
Ethan Ennis, 9. Benony Andresson.
Sky Bet League One Results
Saturday 10th October:
Notts County (22nd) 1-2
Oxford United (8th)
Harris 18
Brannagan 88
Finneran
90+1
Plymouth Argyle (1st) 2-1
AFC Wimbledon (11th)
Stockley 16
Watts
25
Amaechi
90+5
Bradford City (2nd) 0-0
Leyton Orient (12th)
Doncaster Rovers (16th) 1-0
Burton Albion (10th)
Ayinde
45+2
Huddersfield Town (4th) 2-2
Sheffield Wednesday (7th)
Taylor
46
Sanches
Fernandes 68
Bowat og 88
Lowe pen 90+8
Leicester City (17th) 1-3
Peterborough United (20th)
Edwards 12
Leonard 36
O’Hora og 44
Riis
68
MK Dons (23rd) 1-5 Reading
(6th)
Lane 38
Bramall og 47
Lisbie 64
Lisbie 80
Collins
85
Brown 87
Mansfield Town (14th) 2-1
Bromley (21st)
McLaughlin
22
McKiernan 30
Moriah-Welsh
49
Stevenage (9th) 1-0 Wigan
Athletic (24th)
Marcal
60
Stockport County (3rd) 3-1
BARNSLEY (19th)
Kelly 13
Wootton
61
Wootton
73
Mandron
90
Wycombe Wanderers (15th)
1-4 Luton Town (13th)
Palmer 16
Donley 27
Wells 46
Cole 84
Grimmer
90+5
Cambridge United (5th) 1-0
Blackpool (18th)
Yahyai
82
Barnsley lie in 19th
place in Sky Bet League One with 8 points from 8 games. We are 7 points off the
Play-Offs, 9 points off the Automatic Promotion Places, 11 points off First
Place and Goal Difference above the Relegation Zone.
Up to 12/10/26
Next Up:
At Oakwell:
Sky Bet League One Matchday Nine: Barnsley v Cambridge United, Saturday 17th October 2026. Kick-Off 3pm
On The Road:
Sky
Bet League One Matchday Ten: Luton Town v Barnsley, Tuesday 20th
October 2026. Kick-Off 7:45pm
