Team News
Jack Hunt, Ryan McLaughlin, Nick Proschwitz and Marcus Pedersen have all returned to their parent clubs but Peter Ramage could make his first appearance since March.
Manager Danny Wilson has said he will include some youngsters on the bench so Reuben Noble-Lazarus, Paul Digby and Danny Rose are set to play some part.
Last time out - Barnsley Team:
Luke Steele
Tom Kennedy
Martin Cranie
Jean-Yves Mvoto
Kelvin Etuhu
Ryan McLaughlin
Stephen Dawson
Liam Lawrence
Dale Jennings
Marcus Pedersen
Chris O’Grady
Head to Head
Last Six Barnsley v QPR results:
5/10/13 QPR (Charlie Austin, 2) 2-0 Barnsley (Championship)
12/4/11 Barnsley 0-1 QPR (Adel Taarabt) (Championship)
7/8/10 QPR (Heidar Helguson, Jamie Mackie, Adel Taarabt, Fitz Hall) 4-0 Barnsley (Championship)
24/4/10 Barnsley 0-1 QPR (Mikele Leigertwood) (Championship)
26/9/09 QPR (Mikele Leigertwood, Akos Buzsaky, 2, Ben Watson, Jay Simpson) 5-2 Barnsley (Stephen Foster, Andy Gray) (Championship)
28/2/09 Barnsley (Daniel Bogdanovic, Anderson De Silva) 2-1 QPR (Damien Delaney) (Championship)
Overall Record:
Barnsley Wins: 13
QPR Wins: 26
Draws: 10
Barnsley Goals: 70
QPR Goals: 85
At Oakwell:
Barnsley Wins: 12
QPR Wins: 5
Draws: 6
Barnsley Goals: 45
QPR Goals: 24
First Met In League: QPR 2-2 Barnsley Saturday 11th September 1948.
Biggest Win: Barnsley 7-0 QPR Saturday 4th November 1950.
Biggest Defeat: QPR 4-0 Barnsley Tuesday 30th September 2003 & Saturday 7th August 2010.
Last Home Win: Barnsley (Daniel Bogdanovic 26, Anderson De Silva 43) 2-1 QPR (Damien Delaney 35) Saturday 28th February 2009.
Last Away Win: QPR 0-5 Barnsley Saturday 21st January 1950.
Last Home Draw: Barnsley 0-0 QPR Tuesday 26th February 2008.
Last Away Draw: QPR (Jermaine Darlington 21, Robert Steiner 37) 2-2 Barnsley (Geoff Thomas 11, Nicky Eaden 57) Saturday 27th November 1999.
Last Home Defeat: Barnsley 0-1 QPR (Adel Taarabt 1). Tuesday 12th April 2011.
Last Away Defeat: QPR (Charlie Austin 66,87) 2-0 Barnsley Saturday 5th October 2013
Last Home Meeting:
Tuesday 12th April 2011
Barnsley 0 1 QPR
Taarabt 1
Barnsley:
Luke Steele, Jason Shackell, Keiran Trippier, Paul McShane, Matt Hill (Jay McEveley 77), Nathan Doyle, Danny Haynes, Jacob Mellis (Jordan Clark 77), Jacob Butterfield, Marlon Harewood, Andy Gray (Reuben Noble-Lazarus 82).
Unused substitutes:
David Preece, Stephen Foster, Jim O’Brien, Diego Arismendi.
QPR:
Paddy Kenny, Bradley Orr, Clint Hill, Kaspars Gorkss, Matthew Connolly, Shaun Derry, Adel Tarrabt (Hogan Ephraim 69), Alejandro Faurlin, Wayne Routledge, Tommy Smith, Heidar Helguson.
Unused substitutes:
Radek Cerny, Danny Shittu, Akos Buzsaky, Patrick Agyemang, Rob Hulse, Ishmael Miller.
Still at respective clubs:
Barnsley: 5 (Steele, Mellis, Clark – on loan at Hyde, Noble-Lazarus, O’Brien)
QPR: 3 (Hill, Taarabt – on loan at AC Milan, Faurlin, Ephraim)
This Season:
Last six 2013-2014 results:
Barnsley:
26/4/14 Middlesbrough 3-1 Barnsley (Mvoto) (Championship)
21/4/14 Derby 2-1 Barnsley (Proschwitz) (Championship)
19/4/14 Barnsley 0-1 Leeds (Championship)
15/4/14 Charlton 1–2 Barnsley (Mvoto, Kennedy) (Championship)
12/4/14 Bolton 1–0 Barnsley (Championship)
8/4/14 Barnsley 0–1 Burnley (Championship)
W: 1 D: 0 L: 5 F: 4 A: 9 GD: -5 Points: 3
QPR:
26/4/14 QPR (Austin) 1-1 Millwall (Championship)
21/4/14 QPR (Barton, Austin) 2-1 Watford (Championship)
19/4/14 Leicester 1-0 QPR (Championship)
12/4/14 QPR (Benayoun, Hoilett, Onuoha, Zamora, Morrison) 5-2 Nottingham Forest (Championship)
8/4/14 Blackburn 2-0 QPR (Championship)
5/4/14 Bournemouth 2-1 QPR (Traore) (Championship)
W: 2 D: 1 L: 3 F: 9 A: 9 GD: 0 Points: 7
Interesting Stats:
QPR have won each of the last five meetings, with Barnsley failing to even score in any of the last four.
The Reds have won just one of the last four Oakwell encounters. QPR have emerged victorious from this part of South Yorkshire on only five occasions, but that includes each of the last two trips.
Victory for Rangers would give them their third successive league double over Barnsley.
QPR are definitely heading into the end of season play-offs as they look to make an immediate return to the Premier League but will be looking for the three points this weekend to ensure they finish fourth and have home advantage for the second leg of the play-off semi-finals.
Rangers, in fact, need just a point to ensure this but defeat would open the door to Wigan to overtake them.
Harry Redknapp’s side were most people’s favourites to win the league this season or at least secure automatic promotion but poor away form has put paid to that.
The R’s have lost just twice at Loftus Road this season but have suffered ten defeats on the road, the joint most amongst the division’s top 14 sides.
They have won just seven on the road, the lowest in the top six and have scored just 19 times- in the Championship only Charlton, Blackpool, Doncaster, Barnsley and Yeovil have netted less away goals.
Overall Rangers have managed 57 goals so far this season, the lowest amount in the top six, but they have seen only 42 go into their own net- only Burnley have conceded less.
Rangers have won just two of their last seven matches and have lost each of their last three away games.
Barnsley have not scored for five successive home games but QPR are without a clean sheet in seven matches.
Charlie Austin has scored in 15 of his 33 appearances for Rangers this season and has scored in each of his last four appearances against Barnsley (five goals)
With just one game remaining the most victories Barnsley can accumulate in 2013-2014 is 10, providing they beat QPR.
This would be their lowest total since the Premier League relegation campaign of 1997/1998 when they also gained 10 wins.
However they played only 38 games that season, the last time they gained so little wins from a 46 game campaign was 1971/1972 when they managed just nine like they have now.
Barnsley can now only get a total of 42 points so will definitely finish with their lowest Football League points tally since 1974-1975 when they gained 41. They actually finished 15th that season in the Fourth Division.
This season Barnsley’s points to games ratio will be less than one point per game for the first time since the Premier League season in 1997-1998 when they accumulated 35 points from 38 games. The last time it happened in a 46 game season was back in 1975-1976 when they managed to get 44- as just mentioned they can only reach 42 this season.
Should they lose tomorrow they will finish on a sub 40 points total for the first time (excluding the Premier League season when they played only 38 matches) since 1971/1972
I suppose one bright note is the most league defeats they can suffer now is 25, which would be one less than the total they suffered in their first season after promotion in 2006-2007.
The Reds conceded 86 goals that year, the most in the Football League. They have let in 74 so far this campaign so will comfortably miss that tally but are probably likely to go past the 74 they shipped in 2011/2012.
So far Barnsley themselves have scored 42 goals. If they do not get at least another three in their final game it will be their lowest Football League goals tally since 1981/1982. They also scored 42 times that season yet only played 42 games, 1971/1972 was the last time they scored less than at least 45 goals in a 46 game season.
As mentioned before this is one of Barnsley’s worst seasons at Oakwell for many a year.
They have five home wins this season so the most they can get is six, which again would be the lowest since that horrific 1971/1972 campaign when they also managed six. Should they lose or draw with QPR it will be their lowest total since 1952/1953 when they managed four. This though again was a 42 game season, and they have NEVER before won less than six home games in a 46 game campaign.
The Reds have managed just 20 goals at Oakwell this season. Unless they grab two against Rangers tomorrow this will be their lowest EVER home totally. The previous lowest was 22 back in 1989-1990.
They have conceded 33 home goals so far; it is only the third time in nine years that they have conceded 30+ goals at home.
Barnsley’s current goal difference is –32, the same as they finished with back in 2006-2007. If they lose tomorrow they will finish with their worst goal difference since the 1997-1998 Premier League campaign when they ended with –45. If you take the top flight away it would be their worst Football League goal difference since 1964-1965 when they suffered a 36-goal deficit whilst finishing bottom of the Third Division.
Speaking of finishing bottom, if Yeovil win tomorrow and Barnsley lose, The Reds will finish bottom of a league for the first time since that Third Division campaign 49 years ago.
No matter what, after this game has finished Barnsley Football Club will have completed their 73rd season in English football’s second tier and will be preparing to start a 23rd season in the third division.
On more current form, The Reds equalled an unwanted club record of FIVE home games without scoring. The only other time this happened was 55 years ago. They also went five without a goal in February-April 1959, a season where they were relegated, finishing bottom of this league. They have never before gone six home games without scoring a goal.
They have lost three of their last four home matches with a 1-0 scoreline. It is the same scoreline by which QPR have won on each of their last two visits to Oakwell.
Defeat tomorrow would be Barnsley’s 10th home game of the season, the same as they suffered in 2011/2012 and 2006-2007.
Ref Watch:
Kevin Wright.
2013-2014: Games: 22 Yellows: 63 Reds: 6
Kevin Wright did not show a single red card in his first 12 matches but has subsequently shown six in the following 10, including four matches in a row.
The last time he refereed a Barnsley match was the 3-0 defeat to Birmingham in November, which saw David Flitcroft sacked.
Last Barnsley match: Barnsley 0-3 Birmingham, Saturday 30th November 2013. (Yellow card shown to Paddy McCourt and Marcus Pedersen)
Last QPR match: QPR 2-0 Ipswich, Tuesday 22nd February 2011. (No yellow cards shown to QPR players)
On This Day:
Barnsley:
Played: 13 Won: 6 Drawn: 1 Lost: 6 Scored: 24 Conceded: 22.
Last match on the 3rd May: 2009. Plymouth 1-2 Barnsley (Hammill, Campbell-Ryce). Att: 14,529
Last win: 2009
Last draw: 1986
Last defeat: 2003
STAT! – Barnsley have won just one of their last four matches on this date. That 2-1 win at Plymouth five years ago secured Championship survival, sending Norwich down instead.
FINAL DAY STATS:
Barnsley have won just three of their last nine final day matches. The last time The Reds were relegated from this division- in 2001-2002- it was confirmed on the penultimate day and they went on to win their final game.
QPR:
Played: 13 Won: 5 Drawn: 5 Lost: 3 Scored: 14 Conceded: 9.
Last match on the 3rd May: 2009. Preston 2-1 QPR (Agyemang). Att: 18,264.
Last win: 2003
Last draw: 1995
Last defeat: 2009
STAT! – QPR have won one of the last six games on this date, losing three.
FINAL DAY STATS:
QPR have lost each of their last SIX final matches and eight of the last nine. They have not won on the final day for exactly 10 years, when they also travelled to South Yorkshire and triumphed 3-1 at Sheffield Wednesday in 2004.
Mad Sites:
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Other Fixtures:
Saturday 3rd May 2014:
12:15pm:
Blackburn v Wigan
Blackpool v Charlton
Bolton v Birmingham
Ipswich v Sheffield Wednesday
Leeds v Derby
Leicester v Doncaster
Millwall v Bournemouth
Nottingham Forest v Brighton
Reading v Burnley
Watford v Huddersfield
Yeovil v Middlesbrough