Team News
Barnsley are expected to be without two full-backs in Kelvin Etuhu and Jack Hunt. Etuhu who has revelled in this unfamiliar role since returning to the team there five games ago was forced off at half time at Charlton with an ankle injury, and his replacement Hunt exited less than half an hour later with a hamstring problem.
Martin Cranie returned on Tuesday and is set to continue as captain.
Jim O’Brien returned to training this week and actually travelled down to the Valley but will not be risked.
Last time out - Barnsley Team:
Luke Steele
Tom Kennedy
Lewin Nyatanga
Jean-Yves Mvoto
Ryan McLaughlin
Kelvin Etuhu
Liam Lawrence
Tomasz Cywka
Stephen Dawson
Dale Jennings
Chris O’Grady
Head to Head
Last Six Barnsley v Leeds results:
21/12/13 Leeds 0-0 Barnsley (Championship)
12/1/13 Barnsley (Dagnall, 2) 2-0 Leeds (Championship)
6/10/12 Leeds (Becchio) 1-0 Barnsley (Championship)
31/12/11 Barnsley (Vaz Te, 3) 4-1 Leeds (Becchio) (Championship)
26/11/11 Leeds (McCormack) 1-2 Barnsley (Vaz Te, Davies) (Championship)
22/2/11 Leeds (Becchio, Gradel, 2) 3-3 Barnsley (Shackell, Hill, Trippier) (Championship)
Overall Record:
Barnsley Wins: 20
Leeds Wins: 20
Draws: 17
Barnsley Goals: 81
Leeds Goals: 86
At Oakwell:
Barnsley Wins: 14
Leeds Wins: 6
Draws: 8
Barnsley Goals: 52
Leeds Goals: 48
First Met In League: Leeds 0-0 Barnsley Saturday 9th April 1921.
Biggest Win: Barnsley 4-1 Leeds Saturday 31st December 2011.
Biggest Defeat: Leeds 4-0 Barnsley Saturday 8th April 1922 & Wednesday 9th January 1991.
Last Home Win: Barnsley (Chris Dagnall 63,66) 2-0 Leeds Saturday 12th January 2013.
Last Away Win: Leeds (Ross McCormack 55) 1-2 Barnsley (Ricardo Vaz Te 27, Craig Davies 43) Saturday 26th November 2011.
Last Home Draw: Barnsley 1-1 Leeds Sunday 6th January 1991.
Last Away Draw: Leeds 0-0 Barnsley Saturday 21st December 2013
Last Home Defeat: Barnsley (Andy Liddell 8, Ashley Ward 28) 2-3 Leeds (Alf-Inge Haaland 35, Rod Wallace 79, Derek Lilley 82) Saturday 29th November 1997.
Last Away Defeat: Leeds (Luciano Becchio 42) 1-0 Barnsley Saturday 6th October 2012.
Last Home Meeting:
Saturday 12th January 2013.
Barnsley 2 0 Leeds
Dagnall 63,66
Barnsley:
Luke Steele, Scott Golbourne, Jim McNulty, Martin Cranie, Tom Kennedy, John Stones, Stephen Dawson, Jim O’Brien (Jacob Mellis 33, Danny Rose 88), David Perkins, Chris Dagnall (Reuben Noble-Lazarus 89)
Unused substitutes:
Ben Alnwick, Bobby Hassell, Stephen Foster, Kelvin Etuhu.
Leeds:
Paddy Kenny, Lee Peltier, Jason Pearce, Alan Tate, Sam Byram, Rodolph Austin, Michael Tonge, David Norris (Ross McCormack 46), Ross Barkley, El Hadji Diouf (Paul Green 51), Luciano Becchio.
Unused substitutes:
Jamie Ashdown, Tom Lees, Aidan White, Luke Varney, Davide Somma.
Still at respective clubs:
Barnsley: 10 (Steele, Cranie, Kennedy, Dawson, O’Brien, Mellis, Rose, Noble-Lazarus, Hassell, Etuhu)
Leeds: 14 (Kenny, Peltier, on loan at Nottingham Forest, Pearce, Byram, Austin, Tonge, Norris, Diouf, Ashdown, Lees, White, Green, on loan at Ipswich, Varney, on loan at Blackburn, McCormack.
This Season:
Last six 2013-2014 results:
Barnsley:
15/4/14 Charlton 1–2 Barnsley (Championship)
12/4/14 Bolton 1–0 Barnsley (Championship)
8/4/14 Barnsley 0–1 Burnley (Championship)
5/4/14 Barnsley 0-0 Brighton (Championship)
29/3/14 Yeovil 1–4 Barnsley (O’Grady 2, Lawrence, Jennings) (Championship)
25/3/14 Reading 1-3 Barnsley (Dawson, Noble-Lazarus, Jennings) (Championship)
W: 3 D: 1 L: 2 F: 9 A: 5 GD: +4 Points: 10
Leeds:
12/4/14 Leeds (Murphy, 2,) 2-0 Blackpool (Championship)
8/4/14 Watford 3-0 Leeds (Championship)
5/4/14 Wigan 1-0 Leeds (Championship)
1/4/14 Leeds 0-1 Charlton (Championship)
29/3/14 Leeds (McCormack) 1-2 Doncaster (Championship)
25/3/14 Bournemouth 4-1 Leeds (McCormack) (Championship)
W: 1 D: 0 L: 5 F: 4 A: 11 GD: -7 Points: 3
Interesting Stats
Despite being at the opposite ends of the financial scale for most of the last 20 years these two sides have been evenly matched when facing each other.
They have both won 20 of the 57 duels so far. At Elland Road, the home side have won 14, away team six with nine draws. A stalemate at Oakwell tomorrow would mean the exact same record there.
It is 17 years and five meetings since Leeds last emerged victorious from this part of South Yorkshire, Barnsley have won all four of the clashes since, with an aggregate score of 14-5.
A Premier League encounter in November 1997 is the Whites only win at Oakwell in nine clashes stretching back to 1985. Some Barnsley fans will claim they should not even have that solitary success as The Reds led 2-0 before collapsing and losing 3-2.
Danny Wilson was Barnsley manager then, his first match back in charge was the reverse fixture back in December where he led the side to a credible 0-0 draw.
Overall Leeds have won just one of the last nine meetings, at Elland Road last season.
Amidst the backdrop of off the field issues Leeds have suffered a horrific run that their supporters will hope finally ended with a 2-0 win over Blackpool last weekend.
That victory at Elland Road ended a run of five straight defeats and Brian McDermott’s side have lost eight of the last 10, punctured by wins over relegation threatened teams- Millwall and Blackpool.
Both of those wins came at home and Leeds have failed to win any of their last seven away matches, losing five.
Again that run is punctured by victory over a struggling side- 2-1 at Yeovil in February- and it is their only victory on the road in 2014 (11 matches)
In total Leeds have lost 12 away league games this season, only Barnsley and Doncaster (13) have lost more. They have lost 20 games in total in 2013-2014, one more than they suffered in the whole of 2012-2013; only again Barnsley and Doncaster (21) plus Yeovil (22) have lost more.
In their defence however everybody from 16th place down has now lost 20+ games and Leeds record of 14 wins is the joint best in the bottom half of the table along with Watford.
The Reds will come up against their former loan keeper Jack Butland. His last game for Barnsley was the goal-less draw at Leeds in December. He has kept two clean sheets in his 12 appearances for the Whites, in his first appearance, and his most recent.
Ref Watch:
David Webb
2013-2014: Games: 34 Yellows: 103 Reds: 1
Webb has shown an incredible 103 yellow cards this season, an average of over three per game. He has though issued just one red, just down the road at Bramall Lane.
Last Barnsley match: Barnsley 1-1 Crystal Palace, Tuesday 23rd October 2012. (Yellow card shown to Stephen Foster)
Last Leeds match: Leeds 1-1 Ipswich, Tuesday 28th January 2014. (No yellow cards shown to Leeds players)
On This Day:
Barnsley:
Played: 23 Won: 2 Drawn: 9 Lost: 12 Scored: 12 Conceded: 25.
Last match on the 19th April: 2008. Barnsley 0-1 Leicester. Att: 16,644.
Last win: 2003
Last draw: 1997
Last defeat: 2008
STAT! – This has been an awful day for Barnsley and they have won only twice. They have won one of the last 18, and there has been 11 defeats in that run.
Leeds:
Played: 21 Won: 7 Drawn: 5 Lost: 9 Scored: 21 Conceded: 30.
Last match on the 19th April: 2008. Millwall 0-2 Barnsley (Prutton, Hughes). Att: 13,395.
Last win: 2008
Last draw: 1997
Last defeat: 2003
STAT! – Leeds have been fairly inconsistent on this date and have won just one of the last five matches.
Mad Sites:
Official Sites:
Other Fixtures:
Friday 18th April 2014:
3pm:
Blackburn v Yeovil
Bournemouth v Sheffield Wednesday
Charlton v Bolton
Huddersfield v Brighton
Wigan v Reading
5:15pm:
Blackpool v Burnley
7:30pm:
Doncaster v Derby
Saturday 19th April 2014:
12:15pm:
Leicester v QPR
3pm:
Middlesbrough v Millwall
Nottingham Forest v Birmingham
Watford v Ipswich