Team News
Martin Cranie is fully fit following his hamstring injury, as is Liam Lawrence. Marcus Pedersen remains sidelined but manager Danny Wilson has no new injury or suspension worries as they go into a game that really they MUST win to have any chance of avoiding relegation.
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 Charlton v Barnsley results:
17/8/13 Barnsley (O’Grady,2) 2-2 Charlton (Cousins, Church) (Championship)
13/4/13 Barnsley 0-6 Charlton (Pritchard, Jackson, Kermorgant, Harriott, Serkar, Fuller) (Championship)
20/10/12 Charlton 0-1 Barnsley (Cywka) (Championship
21/2/09 Barnsley 0-0 Charlton (Championship)
1/11/08 Charlton (Hudson) 1-3 Barnsley (Macken,2, Moore) (Championship)
26/4/08 Barnsley (Campbell-Ryce, Nyatanga, Macken) 3-0 Charlton (Championship)
Overall Record:
Charlton Wins: 18
Barnsley Wins: 15
Draws: 14
Charlton Goals: 71
Barnsley Goals: 70
At Charlton:
Charlton Wins: 13
Barnsley Wins: 2
Draws: 8
Charlton Goals: 48
Barnsley Goals: 28
First Met In League: Barnsley 2-0 Charlton Saturday 23rd November 1929.
Biggest Win: Barnsley 7-1 Charlton Wednesday 10th September 1958.
Biggest Defeat: Barnsley 0-6 Charlton Saturday 13th April 2013.
Last Home Win: Barnsley (Jamal Campbell-Ryce 11, Lewin Nyatanga 33, Jon Macken 85) 3-0 Charlton Saturday 26th April 2008.
Last Away Win: Charlton 0-1 Barnsley (Tomasz Cywka 64) Saturday 20th October 2012.
Last Home Draw: Barnsley (Chris O’Grady 16, 55) 2-2 Charlton (Jordan Cousins 64, Simon Church 72) Saturday 17th August 2013
Last Away Draw: Charlton (Zheng Zhi 82) 1-1 Barnsley (Kim Christensen 90) Saturday 6th October 2007.
Last Home Defeat: Barnsley 0-6 Charlton (Bradley Pritchard 4, Johnnie Jackson 19, Yann Kermorgant 48, Callum Harriott 59, Salim Kerkar 80, Ricardo Fuller 90) Saturday 13th April 2013.
Last Away Defeat: Charlton (Clive Mendonca 8,25,80) 3-1 Barnsley (Darren Barnard 31) Saturday 7th August 1999.
Last Away Meeting:
Saturday 20th October 2012.
Charlton 0 1 Barnsley
Cywka 64
Charlton:
Ben Hamer, Michael Morrison, Chris Solly, Laurie Wilson, Leon Cort, Danny Green (Bradley Pritchard 68), Dale Stephens, Danny Hollands (Johnnie Jackson 46), Abul Razak (Bradley Wright-Phillips 46), Salim Kerkar, Ricardo Fuller.
Unused substitutes:
David Button, Cedric Evina, Dorian Dervite, Rob Hulse
Barnsley:
Ben Alnwick, Scott Golbourne, Stephen Foster, Scott Wiseman, John Stones, Stephen Dawson, David Perkins, Tomasz Cywka (Kelvin Etuhu 89), Jacob Mellis (Bobby Hassell 89), Craig Davies (Marlon Harewood 89), Chris Dagnall.
Unused substitutes:
Luke Steele, Tom Kennedy, Matty Done, Danny Rose.
Still at respective clubs:
Charlton: 11 (Hamer, Morrison, Solly, Wilson, Cort, Green, Hollands- on loan at Portsmouth-, Evina, Dervite, Jackson, Pritchard)
Barnsley: 8 (Dawson, Cywka, Etuhu, Mellis, Hassell, Steele, Kennedy, Rose.)
This Season:
Last six 2013-2014 results:
Charlton:
12/4/14 Brighton 3–0 Charlton (Championship)
8/4/14 Charlton (Ajdarevic, Dervite, Sordell) 3-2 Yeovil (Championship)
5/4/14 Charlton 0-1 Reading (Championship)
1/4/14 Leeds 0-1 Charlton (Ghoochanneijhad) (Championship)
29/3/14 Derby 3-0 Charlton (Championship)
25/3/14 Nottingham Forest 0-1 Charlton (Cousins) (Championship)
W: 3 D: 0 L: 3 F: 5 A: 9 GD: -4 Points: 9
Barnsley:
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)
22/3/14 Barnsley 0–1 Bournemouth (Championship)
W: 2 D: 1 L: 3 F: 7 A: 5 GD: +2 Points: 7
Interesting Stats
Barnsley have only ever won twice at Charlton, but both victories have come in the last two meetings, so they head to the Valley looking to make it a hat-trick there.
Indeed The Reds have lost just one of their last seven visits and just one of the last eight meetings overall, although that was a 6-0 hammering at Oakwell 12 months ago.
This meeting is taking place on the 15th April, that humbling came on the 13th last season.
When these two sides played out a 2-2 draw back in August, it gave both teams their first point of the 2013/2014 season.
Charlton have played on each of the last four Tuesday’s, and have won the lot.
Victory for them in this relegation crunch clash would move them four points clear of the drop zone, and still with a game in hand on third bottom Millwall.
Consequentially it would leave Barnsley six points adrift of safety (as Blackpool would drop to 21st) with just four games remaining.
The Addicks have certainly picked up since Jose Riga replaced Chris Powell as manager last month. The Belgian has won four of his 10 matches in charge (all on Tuesdays). Before this they had won just four of 17.
Charlton also seem to be working alternately in recent weeks. Their last eight results read WLWLWLWL with victories arriving on Tuesdays and defeats on Saturdays.
The capital outfit have found goals hard to come by this season and are the Football League’s lowest scorers having found the back of the net just 30 times.
They have scored more than once in a game on just seven occasions, two of those were against Yeovil and one at Barnsley back in August.
They have drawn blanks in 19 of their 40 league matches and have also only managed to win three matches when they have conceded.
Whilst scoring is hard, they have managed to keep the ball out of their own net quite well. Charlton have conceded just 53 goals, only the top eight sides plus Middlesbrough and Watford have conceded less. To put it into context, every other side in the bottom nine are in to the 60s in the goals against column with Millwall having shipped 72.
They have managed five clean sheets from their past 10 matches.
This has been particularly prevalent at home. Whilst only scoring 16 times at the Valley themselves, the lowest home scorers in the Championship, they have only let in 22.
However they have lost eight times at home this season, only Birmingham and Yeovil have lost more.
Ref Watch:
Iain Williamson
2013-2014: Games: 22 Yellows: 63 Reds: 1
Iain Williamson has shown only one red card this season but had shown at least one yellow in each of his 22 matches.
Last Charlton match: Charlton 2-0 Peterborough, Tuesday 27th November 2012. (Yellow card shown to Michael Morrison and a certain Emmanuel Frimpong)
Last Barnsley match: Nottingham Forest 3-2 Barnsley, Saturday 14th September 2013. (Yellow card shown to Peter Ramage and Martin Cranie)
On This Day:
Charlton:
Played: 18 Won: 5 Drawn: 2 Lost: 11 Scored: 25 Conceded: 33.
Last match on the 15th April: 2007. Everton 2-1 Charlton (Bent). Att: 34,028.
Last win: 1995
Last draw: 1986
Last defeat: 2007
STAT! – Charlton have lost 11 of their 18 matches on this date including both of the last two.
Barnsley:
Played: 25 Won: 12 Drawn: 10 Lost: 3 Scored: 36 Conceded: 21.
Last match on the 15th April: 2008. Barnsley (Ferenczi) 1-3 Hull. Att: 13,061.
Last win: 2006
Last draw: 2000
Last defeat: 2008
STAT! – Barnsley have an excellent record on this date, losing just three of 25 matches. However they did lose their most recent encounter.
Mad Sites:
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