Preview: Barnsley – Town


By Aston
January 26 2009

Town travel to Oakwell tomorrow night, looking for three points as they continue to hunt for a play-off finish this season.

Barnsley will be hoping to include new signing Daniel Bogdanovic, but they are yet to receive international clearance. Iain Hume, Michael Coulson and Steve Foster are all out but Martin Devaney returns to action.

Barnsley boss Simon Davey: "We have had a big bonus with Martin Devaney coming back into contention and he is ready to play. He will give us more options out there if we need to change the system. We have not won any of our last three matches and that gives me the opportunity to do whatever I want to change it and get a reaction.

"Hugo Colace will not be available for Tuesday. He trained a little on Sunday but he will not be ready in time although we are hopeful of having him back for Bristol City.

"We know we have a tough game coming up against Ipswich Town but we have to make sure we take our chances and win it. I would settle for the worst game of football ever and a 1-0 win".

Town will be missing Moritz Volz and Ivan Campo are still missing but everyone else is available for the trip.

Town assistant manager John Gorman: "Most of the lads are on a high after Saturday. They know they played well and their professionalism was excellent.

"As soon as the Chelsea game was over, the talk was of moving on to Barnsley and tonight's game was always going to be the more important of the two.

"There is a good spirit in the camp. The boys are looking forward to the game and hopefully we can look to build on many of the positives we saw at Chelsea.

"We are on a little run at the moment and we need to take that on. We're starting to look like a side that can put in a challenge.

"Barnsley are a good side though. They get the ball down and pass and we know it's going to be a difficult 90 minutes."

Match odds:
Town: 13/8
Draw: 12/5
Barnsley: 9/5

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Preview: Barnsley – Town
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Date: 26/01/2009 23:30

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Re: Preview: Barnsley – Town
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Date: 27/01/2009 12:40

Tonights squad

Barnsley: Muller, Steele, Van Homoet, Moore, Guedes, Kozluk, Potter, El Haimour, De Silva, Hassell, Leon, Butterfield, Devaney, Campell-Ryce, Macken, Rigters, Bogdanovic and Odejayi.

Ipswich Town: R Wright, Supple, D Wright, Thatcher, Bruce, McAuley, Balkestein, Shumulikoski, Miller, Garvan, Quinn, Norris, Bowditch, Haynes, Walters, Lisbie, Counago and Stead.

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