Team News
Kelvin Etuhu returns after serving a one-match suspension but there are still doubts over Martin Cranie. The captain has been described as touch and go following his hamstring tear.
Liam Lawrence is back in training after a calf injury forced him out of the Burnley defeat and should be at least in the squad.
Barnsley are looking to win three away league matches in a row for the first time since the final game of 2005-2006 and the first two of 2006-2007.
Last time out - Barnsley Team:
Luke Steele
Tom Kennedy
Lewin Nyatanga
Jean-Yves Mvoto
Ryan McLaughlin
Tomasz Cywka
Jacob Mellis
Stephen Dawson
Martin Woods
Dale Jennings
Chris O’Grady
Head to Head
Last Six Bolton v Barnsley results:
26/12/13 Barnsley 0-1 Bolton (Danns) (Championship)
2/3/13 Barnsley (Cywka, O’Grady) 2-3 Bolton (Ngog, Spearing, Dawson) (Championship)
17/11/12 Bolton (K. Davies) 1-1 Barnsley (C. Davies) (Championship)
28/4/01 Barnsley 0-1 Bolton (Ricketts) (Division One)
11/11/00 Bolton (Ricketts, Gardner) 2-0 Barnsley (Division One)
26/2/00 Barnsley (Tinkler) 1-1 Bolton (Holdsworth) (Division One)
Overall Record:
Bolton Wins: 14
Barnsley Wins: 11
Draws: 12
Bolton Goals: 64
Barnsley Goals: 47
At Bolton:
Bolton Wins: 9
Barnsley Wins: 2
Draws: 6
Bolton Goals: 41
Barnsley Goals: 18
First Met In League: Barnsley 1-6 Bolton Tuesday 26th December 1899.
Biggest Win: Barnsley 3-0 Bolton Saturday 12th September 1981 & Saturday 26th November 1994.
Biggest Defeat: Bolton 8-0 Barnsley Saturday 6th October 1934.
Last Home Win: Barnsley (Darren Barnard 26) 1-0 Bolton Saturday 3rd January 1998.
Last Away Win: Bolton (John McGinlay, Mark Seagraves) 2-3 Barnsley (Charlie Bishop, Andy Payton 2) Sunday 8th May 1994.
Last Home Draw: Barnsley (Eric Tinkler 46) 1-1 Bolton (Dean Holdsworth 43) Saturday 26th February 2000.
Last Away Draw: Bolton (Kevin Davies 24) 1-1 Barnsley (Craig Davies 65) Saturday 17th November 2012.
Last Home Defeat: Barnsley 0-1 Bolton (Neil Danns 64) Thursday 26th December 2013.
Last Away Defeat: Bolton (Michael Ricketts 14, Ricardo Gardner 28) 2-0 Barnsley Saturday 11th November 2000.
Last Away Meeting:
Saturday 17th November 2012:
Bolton 1 1 Barnsley
K. Davies 24 C. Davies 65
Bolton:
Adam Bogdan, Matt Mills, Zat Knight, Stephen Warnock (Tyrone Mears 32), Sam Ricketts, Chris Eagles, Mark Davies, Jay Spearing, Jacob Butterfield (Keith Andrews 56), David Ngog (Chung-Yong Lee 69), Kevin Davies.
Unused substitutes:
Jay Lynch, Tim Ream, Darren Pratley, Benik Afobe.
Barnsley:
Luke Steele, Scott Golbourne, Scott Wiseman, Jim McNulty, Martin Cranie, Stephen Dawson, Jim O’Brien (Reuben Noble-Lazarus 57), Matty Done (Tomasz Cywka 60), Jacob Mellis (Stephen Foster 89), Craig Davies, Marcus Tudgay.
Unused substitutes:
Ben Alnwick, Tom Kennedy, Chris Dagnall, Marlon Harewood.
Still at respective clubs:
Bolton: 12 (Bogdan, Mills, Knight, Eagles, Davies, Spearing, Lynch, Mears, Ream, Andrews, on loan at Brighton, Pratley, Chung-Yong Lee)
Barnsley: 8 (Steele, Cranie, Dawson, O’Brien, Noble-Lazarus, Cywka, Mellis, Kennedy)
This Season:
Last six 2013-2014 results:
Bolton:
8/4/14 Doncaster 1–2 Bolton (Danns, Mason) (Championship)
5/4/14 Huddersfield 0-1 Bolton (Mason) (Championship)
29/3/14 Bolton (Jutkiewicz) 1-1 Wigan (Championship)
25/3/14 Bolton (Wheater) 1-0 Blackpool (Championship)
22/3/14 Yeovil 2-2 Bolton (Jutkiewicz, Knight) (Championship)
15/3/14 Bolton 0-2 Brighton (Championship)
W: 3 D: 2 L: 1 F: 7 A: 6 GD: + Points: 11
Barnsley:
8/4/14 Barnsley 0–1 Burnley (Championship)
5/4/14 Barnsley 0-0 Brighton (Championship)
29/3/14 Yeovil (Ayling) 1–4 Barnsley (O’Grady 2, Lawrence, Jennings) (Championship)
25/3/14 Reading 1-3 Barnsley (Dawson, Noble-Lazarus, Jennings) (Championship)
22/3/14 Barnsley 0–1 Bournemouth (Championship)
15/3/14 Watford 3–0 Barnsley (Championship)
W: 2 D: 1 L: 3 F: 7 A: 7 GD: 0 Points: 7
Interesting Stats
Barnsley have only ever won twice at Bolton and have failed to emerge victorious from any of the last seven trips.
They have though lost just two of those, drawing five.
1994 was the last time Barnsley returned from across the Pennines with three points, and that came at Burnden Park. The Reds have never won at the Reebok Stadium.
Barnsley need three more goals to reach 50 v Bolton.
A win for the Trotters would give them their first league double since 2000/2001 and only their fourth ever.
Home and away Bolton are unbeaten in their last nine meetings with Barnsley. The last time they lost to them was in a Premier League encounter.
It has been another inconsistent season for a Bolton side who are spending their second season back in the second tier after a decade in the Premier League.
Last season the arrival of Dougie Freedman as manager in October 2012 saw them fly from 16th to 7th, missing out on the playoffs only on goal difference.
But this season they have failed to build on that and lie 14th, 12 points off both the play-offs and the relegation zone.
The Trotters have picked up in recent weeks however and have won three of their last five and six of their last 11 matches.
They have won as many matches in their last 11 as they managed in the previous 33.
Freedman’s side have lost just one of their last five matches at the Reebok, winning three. They have also only conceded in two of those games.
Victory on Saturday would be Bolton’s third in a row and would be the third time they have achieved this type of run in 2013/2014.
As mentioned before five of the last six meetings between the clubs at Bolton have ended in a stalemate and only Bury have drawn more home games that the Trotters (10) in the Football League this season.
They have managed to win just five times in front of their own supporters this season; only Birmingham and Yeovil have managed less.
Ref Watch:
James Adcock.
2013-2014: Games: 27 Yellows: 86 Reds: 5
Adcock has shown 86 yellow cards this season, an average of over three per game.
Last Bolton match: Bolton 0-1 QPR, Saturday 24th August 2011. (Yellow card shown to Marc Tierney)
Last Barnsley match: Burnley 1-0 Barnsley, Saturday 7th December 2013. (Yellow card shown to Marcus Tudgay)
On This Day:
Bolton:
Played: 26 Won: 12 Drawn: 4 Lost: 10 Scored: 35 Conceded: 32.
Last match on the 12th April: 2008. Bolton (Davies) 1-0 West Ham. Att: 23,043.
Last win: 2008
Last draw: 1977
Last defeat: 2003
STAT! – Bolton have won six of their last eight matches on this date.
Barnsley:
Played: 24 Won: 8 Drawn: 7 Lost: 9 Scored: 26 Conceded: 29.
Last match on the 12th April: 2011. Barnsley 0-1 QPR. Att: 11,381.
Last win: 2008
Last draw: 2004
Last defeat: 2011
STAT! – Barnsley have won just one of their last four matches on this date and two of the last nine.
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Other Fixtures:
Saturday 12th April 2014:
12:22pm:
QPR v Nottingham Forest
3:07pm:
Brighton v Charlton
Burnley v Middlesbrough
Derby v Huddersfield
Ipswich v Doncaster
Leeds v Blackpool
Millwall v Watford
Sheffield Wednesday v Blackburn
Yeovil v Bournemouth
Monday 14th April 2014:
8:07pm:
Reading v Leicester