Coca-Cola Championship Matchday Two: Barnsley v Coventry City

Team News

Reds boss Simon Davey has a few selection headaches as The Reds prepare to face Coventry in their first home game of the season for the THIRD year in a row.

Darren Moore and Hugo Colace are rated doubtful, and Iain Hume is nursing a thigh injury. Adam Hammill should come in for Martin Devaney as he did on Tuesday whilst Daniel Bogdanovic is pushing to replace Kayode Odejayi after scoring the winner at Lincoln. O'Neil Thompson and Emil Hallfredsson are both expected to still be inelligble.

Likely Line-Up:

Luke Steele

Rob Kozluk

Stephen Foster

Luke Potter

Bobby Hassell

Adam Hammill

Anderson De Silva

Jacob Butterfield

Jamal Campbell-Ryce

Daniel Bogdanovic

Jon Macken

Head to Head

Barnsley have a torrid recent record against the Sky Blues having lost six of the last seven meetings. In three of those games Coventry have rattled in four. In 2007-2008 the Sky Blues won 4-1 at Oakwell and 4-0 at the Ricoh Arena! The Reds came agonisingly close to ending the rut back in April when a controversial last minute penalty decision saw Coventry claim a 1-1 draw. As mentioned before this is the third successive season that Barnsley's first home game has been against Coventry. The Reds have not tasted victory over the Sky Blues since the Premier League season in 1997-1998

Barnsley 1-2 Coventry Match Report 16/8/08

Coventry 4-0 Barnsley Match Report 2/2/08

Barnsley 1-4 Coventry Match Report 11/8/07