Team News
Jacob Mellis is available after serving a one-match suspension whilst talisman Paddy McCourt is in line for a start after showing no ill effects from his hamstring injury on Boxing Day. Manager Danny Wilson could ring the changes with Lewin Nyatanga, Tomasz Cywka and Marcus Pedersen all pushing for starts. David Fox has returned to his parent club Norwich.
Last time out - Barnsley Team:
Luke Steele
Scott Wiseman
Martin Cranie
Peter Ramage
Tom Kennedy
Bobby Hassell
Stephen Dawson
David Perkins
Jim O’Brien
Chris O’Grady
Jason Scotland
Head To Head
Last Six Barnsley v Derby results:
16/4/13 Barnsley 1-1 Derby (Championship)
6/11/12 Derby 2-0 Barnsley (Championship)
31/1/12 Barnsley 3-2 Derby (Championship)
27/9/11 Derby 1-1 Barnsley (Championship)
5/3/11 Derby 0-0 Barnsley (Championship)
18/9/10 Barnsley 1-1 Derby (Championship)
Overall Record:
Barnsley Wins: 18
Derby Wins: 25
Draws: 15
Barnsley Goals: 65
Derby Goals: 81
At Oakwell:
Barnsley Wins: 13
Derby Wins: 9
Draws: 7
Barnsley Goals: 43
Derby Goals: 29
First Met In League: Barnsley 2-4 Derby Saturday 14th September 1907.
Biggest Win: Barnsley 5-0 Derby Saturday 23rd September 1922.
Biggest Defeat: Derby 7-0 Barnsley Wednesday 2nd September 1914.
Last Home Win: Barnsley (Matt Done 11, Andy Gray 23, Scott Wiseman 30) 3-2 Derby (Jamie Ward 69, Tom Carroll 90) Tuesday 31st January 2012.
Last Away Win: Derby (Rob Hulse 27, Shaun Barker 90) 2-3 Barnsley (Adam Hammill 36, Andy Gray 57, Anderson De Silva 90) Tuesday 15th September 2009.
Last Home Draw: Barnsley (Chris O’Grady 47) 1-1 Derby (John Brayford 90) Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last Away Draw: Derby (Steve Davies 62) 1-1 Barnsley (Jacob Butterfield 35) Tuesday 27th September 2011.
Last Home Defeat: Barnsley (Sam Togwell 90) 1-2 Derby (David Jones 11, Matt Oakley 48) Saturday 31st March 2007.
Last Away Defeat: Derby (James O’Connor 69, Nathan Tyson 90) 2-0 Barnsley Tuesday 6th November 2012.
Last Home Meeting:
Tuesday 16th April 2013
Barnsley 1 1 Derby
O’Grady 47 Brayford 90
Barnsley:
Luke Steele, Bobby Hassell (Andrai Jones 32), Scott Wiseman, Martin Cranie, Jim O’Brien, David Perkins, Tomasz Cywka (Marlon Harewood 89), Jacob Mellis, Jason Scotland (Chris Dagnall 76), Reuben Noble-Lazarus, Chris O’Grady.
Unused Substitutes: Ben Alnwick, Sam Patterson, Jordan Clark, Danny Rose.
Manager: David Flitcroft.
Derby:
Frank Fielding, John Brayford, Jake Buxton, Richard Keogh, Kieron Freeman (Michael Jacobs 68), Paul Coutts, Jeff Hendrick, Ben Davies, Craig Forsyth, Mason Bennett (Connor Sammon 73), Chris Martin (Valentin Gjokaj 89).
Unused Subs: Adam Legzdins, Gareth Roberts, James O’Connor, Conor Doyle.
Manager: Nigel Clough.
Still at respective clubs:
Barnsley: 16 (Steele, Hassell, Jones, Wiseman, Cranie, O’Brien, Perkins, Cywka, Mellis, Scotland, Dagnall, Noble-Lazarus, O’Grady, Patterson, Clark, Rose.)
Derby: 15 (Buxton, Keogh, Freeman, Coutts, Hendrick, Davies, Forsyth, Bennett, Martins, Legzdins, O’Connor, Doyle, Jacobs, Sammon, Gjokaj.)
This Season:
Last six 2013-2014 results:
Barnsley:
26/12/13 Barnsley 0-1 Bolton (Championship)
21/12/13 Leeds 0-0 Barnsley (Championship)
14/12/13 Barnsley 1–1 Yeovil (Championship)
7/12/13 Burnley 1–0 Barnsley (Championship)
3/12/13 Brighton 1–2 Barnsley (Championship)
30/11/13 Barnsley 0-3 Birmingham (Championship)
W: 1 D: 2 L: 3 F: 3 A: 7 GD: -4 Points: 5
Derby:
26/12/13 Huddersfield 1-1 Derby (Championship)
21/12/13 Derby 3-1 Doncaster (Championship)
14/12/13 Charlton 0-2 Derby (Championship)
7/12/13 Derby 5-1 Blackpool (Championship
4/12/13 Derby 2-1 Middlesbrough (Championship)
1/12/13 Wigan 1-3 Derby (Championship)
W: 5 D: 1 L: 0 F: 16 A: 5 GD: +11 Points: 16
Interesting Stats
Barnsley have won just one of their last seven meetings with Derby.
Their last two victories (in 2012 and 2009) were both by a 3-2 scoreline.
The Rams have managed a respectable nine victories from their 29 visits to Oakwell, but they haven’t won any of the last five. A 2-1 victory in 2007 is their only win at Barnsley since December 1993.
There have been five last minute goals scored in the last eight fixtures between the two sides, including one in each of the last three.
This will be the fifth successive meeting NOT played on a Saturday. The previous four have all been on Tuesday nights.
Derby are absolutely flying since Steve McClaren took over from Nigel Clough in September.
They have won nine of his 13 games in charge to soar from 14th in the Championship to 4th.
Boxing Day’s 1-1 draw at Huddersfield stopped the Rams from extending their winning run to eight matches.
But this unbeaten run of the same number is their best since they went nine unbeaten in all competitions in the 2006-2007- the last time they were promoted.
The Rams have lost just one of their last five away games. Their tally of seven wins, and just two defeats is the best away record in the Championship.
Derby have netted 23 times on their travels, seven more than the nearest side.
Derby are susceptible to conceding goals however. They have the division’s best goal difference due to scoring a division high 46 goals, but they have shipped in 28, which is the most amongst the top 11 sides. They have kept just one clean sheet in their last six games.
Derby have fallen behind just once in their last eight matches…. And they came back to win that 5-1.
Steve McClaren has faced Barnsley as a manager just once before. This occurred on the opening day of the 2011-2012 season when his Nottingham Forest side were held to a 0-0 draw at the City Ground.
Record: D
As Nottingham Forest manager: Drew 0-0 6/8/11.
Barnsley are at the opposite end of the form table to their opponents having won just one of their last 10 matches, two of the last 24 matches, and eight from the last 36!
The Reds have failed to score from open play in seven of their last eight matches, and they have failed to score at all in six of those, including three of the last four.
They have gone eight matches since they last netted a second half and have managed just ONE in the last 12 games.
Barnsley have gone in at the break with the score-line at 0-0 ten times this season and they have gone on to lose SEVEN of those.
Danny Wilson has now won just one of his last eleven matches as Barnsley manager, and like Keith Hill he has failed to see his side score a goal in either of his first two games in charge this time around. No Barnsley manager has ever gone through his first three games in charge without seeing his side score.
In Wilson’s first spell as manager his first three league games yielded one win, one draw (away) and one defeat (at home). He has one draw (away) and one defeat (at home) from two this time around, and his first victory back in 1994 was at home….to Derby.
Barnsley have conceded 21 in the league at Oakwell this season. Nobody else in the Championship has conceded more at home, and as mentioned before nobody has scored more away goals than Derby.
Barnsley have won just three league matches so far this season, it is their lowest amount at this stage for 27 years, when they also had just three wins in 1986-1987, and like this campaign were bottom with 16 points. That season their fourth victory arrived on New Year’s Day and they recovered remarkably to finish 11th by winning 13 of their 26 matches in January to May 1987.
They have won just twice in front of their own supporters (the joint lowest in the division), the last of which was back on the 19th October. Their record of just four home defeats however is the best amongst the bottom four teams.
Barnsley are yet to win a game this season if they are not winning at half time.
The Reds have won just two of their last seven final games of a calendar year.
Ref Watch:
Mark Heywood:
2013-2014: Games: 16 Yellows: 46 Reds: 2
This will be only Mark Heywood’s third Championship game of the season. One of the two he has been in charge of was Barnsley’s 5-2 defeat at Blackburn back in August when he sent off Jean-Yves Mvoto.
Last Barnsley match: Blackburn 5-2 Barnsley, Saturday 24th August 2013. (Yellow card shown to Jim O’Brien and Chris O’Grady, red card shown to Jean-Yves Mvoto.)
Last Derby match: Mark Heywood has never before refereed a Derby match.
On This Day:
Barnsley:
Played: 16 Won: 6 Drawn: 5 Lost: 5 Scored: 19 Conceded: 29.
Last match on the 29th December: 2012. Barnsley (Dawson) 1-3 Blackburn. ATT: 9,153.
Last win: 1990
Last draw: 2007
Last defeat: 2012
STAT! – 12 months ago Barnsley followed up a Boxing Day home defeat with another Oakwell loss on the 29th. Keith Hill was sacked as manager straight after that game.
Derby:
Played: 17 Won: 4 Drawn: 6 Lost: 7 Scored: 27 Conceded: 30
Last match on the 29th December: 2012. Charlton 1-1 Derby (Ward). Att: 17,761.
Last win: 2001
Last draw: 2012
Last defeat: 2010
STAT! – Derby have won just two of their last 13 games on this date.
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Other Fixtures:
Sunday 29th December 2013:
3pm:
Blackburn v Birmingham
Blackpool v Brighton
Bournemouth v Ipswich
Charlton v Sheffield Wednesday
Doncaster v Millwall
Huddersfield v Yeovil
Leicester v Bolton
Middlesbrough v Reading
Nottingham Forest v Leeds
Watford v QPR
Wigan v Burnley