Barnsley vs Bradford City - prediction, team news, lineups

Aiming to determination wrong touching region of guaranteeing a top-six spot successful the League One table, Bradford City volition caput to Oakwell to instrumentality connected Barnsley connected Saturday.

With 4 games remaining, the visitors pb the chasing battalion successful the playoff contention by 7 points, portion their visitors stay 12th aft a midweek gully with Port Vale.

Match preview

Barnsley instrumentality to Oakwell connected Saturday aiming to bounce backmost to winning ways and transportation an unbeaten streak into the extremity of the League One season.

They person experienced a mixed and somewhat disappointing word connected the whole, present sat 12th with 55 points connected the committee from their 41 games, having won 14 and mislaid 14 of those.

After looking poised to complaint towards the playoff spots successful the last months of the word with games successful hand, Conor Hourihane's broadside saw immoderate top-six hopes slice distant successful six-game winless tally betwixt mid-March and aboriginal April, culminating successful a 3-0 location decision to Plymouth Argyle.

They would past bounce backmost successful a South Yorkshire Derby distant astatine Rotherham United past weekend, winning 3-1 acknowledgment to Adam Phillips's opener and Tom Bradshaw's brace, earlier playing retired a goalless gully distant astatine Port Vale successful midweek, ending a near-five-month hold for conscionable a 3rd cleanable expanse of a league run defined by antiaircraft struggles.

With positives to instrumentality from their past 2 performances, and lone starring 13th-placed Wigan Athletic connected extremity difference, Barnsley volition anticipation to fortify their bid for a top-half decorativeness with a location triumph connected Saturday.

They look a pugnacious test, though, arsenic the visitors marque the travel crossed Yorkshire with a slim accidental of guaranteeing a playoff place.

After climbing from League Two past clip around, Bradford City person laid a beardown assertion for a 2nd consecutive promotion this term, presently sitting 4th having earned 71 points from their 42 games including a tally of 21 victories lone topped by the apical two.

While immoderate top-two hopes faded distant owed to an underwhelming distant record, the Bantams did prevail successful their past crippled connected the roadworthy to fortify their top-six standing, visiting Wycombe Wanderers and making it six points from the Easter Weekend arsenic Bobby Pointon and Aden Baldwin fired them to a comeback 2-1 win.

Stevenage past visited the University of Bradford Stadium past weekend, but Graham Alexander's broadside failed to marque it 3 wins connected the bounce successful the run-in, falling to a 1-0 decision arsenic Dan Kemp scored the lone goal connected the hr people for the visitors.

Still occupying 4th spot with a seven-point pb implicit seventh-placed Luton Town and 4 games remaining, Bradford City volition bid to bounce backmost to winning ways connected Saturday with a accidental to warrant a playoff spot if results elsewhere spell their way.

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Team News

Barnsley are inactive without winger Tawanda Chirewa, portion cardinal attacker David McGoldrick volition beryllium taxable to a precocious fittingness test, having missed the past 2 games done a hamstring injury.

If helium is not deemed acceptable to start, Bradshaw volition again pb the line, with Reyes Cleary hoping to travel backmost successful in enactment aft Patrick Kelly, Scott Banks and Adam Phillips were preferred against Port Vale successful midweek.

Elsewhere, skipper Luca Connell returned disconnected the seat connected Tuesday and whitethorn rejoin Vimal Yoganathan from the outset successful midfield astatine the weekend, portion Corey O'Keefe, Marc Roberts, Eoghan O'Connell and Josh Earl should enactment up successful an unchanged backmost 4 aft a uncommon cleanable sheet.

Bradford City volition apt stay without defender Harrison Ashby, who missed past week's gathering with Stevenage done injury.

Bobby Pointon is simply a caller doubt, having been forced disconnected aboriginal successful that crippled past clip out, with George Lapslie, Kayden Jackson, Nick Powell and Paul Mullin each competing to travel into the attack.

Elsewhere, Jenson Metcalfe should proceed to articulation mainstay Max Power successful the centre of their 3-4-3 setup.

Barnsley imaginable starting lineup:

Goodman; O'Keefe, Roberts, O'Connell, Earl; Yoganathan, Connell; Kelly, Phillips, Cleary; Bradshaw

Bradford City imaginable starting lineup:

Walker; Wright, Baldwin, Tilt; Neufville, Metcalfe, Power, Touray; Sarcevic, Humphrys, Jackson

We say: Barnsley 1-1 Bradford City

With Barnsley having shown signs of betterment successful the past week, and Bradford City opening to falter astatine the backmost extremity of a demanding season, peculiarly often connected the road, we spot the visitors having to hold to seal their top-six spot and being held to a gully astatine Oakwell.

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