Barnsley vs Oxford United - prediction, team news, lineups

Barnsley invited Oxford United to Oakwell connected Saturday day for their latest installation of League One enactment successful the 2026-27 campaign.

In their erstwhile outing, the Tykes fell to an agonising 2-1 decision against Reading astatine the Select Car Leasing Stadium, portion the U’s posted an awesome location triumph implicit a beardown Stockport County side.

Match preview

Following their 2nd consecutive mid-table decorativeness successful League One past season, placing 15th successful the array and sitting 10 points wide of the relegation zone, Barnsley volition beryllium highly acrophobic with the commencement to their latest league run successful the 3rd tier.

Having taken conscionable 1 constituent from their opening brace of fixtures, the Tykes did good to respond and assertion wins successful each of their adjacent two, nevertheless with six losses successful their erstwhile 7 games, Saturday’s hosts are present lone kept disconnected the ft of the League One table by Wigan Athletic.

Barnsley’s biggest weakness truthful acold this play has undoubtedly been their antiaircraft fragility, with Daniel Stendel’s men not lone conceding a worrying 21 league goals, but besides surrendering 14 successful conscionable 5 cupful matches, which has seen them eliminated from the EFL Cup astatine the 2nd circular signifier and presently sat bottommost of their EFL Trophy group.

However, with 3 wins successful the erstwhile 4 meetings betwixt the sides, including an awesome 1-0 triumph astatine the Kassam Stadium successful January 2024, the Tykes volition beryllium hoping that their beardown caller grounds against Oxford tin assistance them to extremity their losing streak connected Saturday day and commencement pushing up the league table.

After a disappointing demotion from the Championship successful the 2025-26 campaign, losing 3 of their last 4 fixtures to decorativeness 22nd successful the array and 4 points from safety, Oxford volition beryllium delighted with however they person bounced backmost successful the aboriginal stages of their latest league endeavours.

Since losing 3-1 to Huddersfield Town astatine the opening of September, leaving them with conscionable 4 points from their opening trio of matches, the U’s person not experienced decision successful League One and arsenic a effect beryllium 3rd successful the division, portion besides having astatine slightest a crippled successful manus connected each of the surrounding teams.

Much to the opposition of their opposition, Oxford’s antiaircraft solidity has surely been their spot implicit that period, with Aaron Ramsey’s men conceding conscionable 4 goals successful the erstwhile 8 league fixtures and lone Bradford City surrendering less than their 10 truthful acold this season.

While they person struggled against Barnsley successful caller years, winning conscionable 1 of their erstwhile 7 meetings with the Tykes, the U’s did unafraid triumph connected their past sojourn to Oakwell arsenic strikes from Cameron Brannagan and Tyler Goodrham, alongside a Jordan Williams ain goal, helped them to a 3-1 triumph successful August 2023.

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Team News

Barnsley volition beryllium without Portuguese guardant Fabio Jalo against Oxford arsenic the 20-year-old continues his betterment from a terrible genu injury, portion Jamaican midfielder Daniel Johnson is besides acceptable to beryllium missing and incapable to marque his archetypal quality for the club.

Since signing from Manchester City U21s successful the summer, Isaac Smith is yet to diagnostic for the Tykes aft picking up a sound successful pre-season, nevertheless helium is expected to instrumentality to grooming soon.

Ben Toure continues to beryllium retired owed to idiosyncratic reasons, though Stendel volition beryllium delighted to person welcomed Ziyad Larkeche, Makenzie Kirk and Cieran Slicker backmost to the squad successful caller weeks.

Having served a 3 crippled league suspension aft receiving a reddish paper against Leicester City past month, Irish midfielder Luca Connell returned to enactment astatine Reading past play and is apt to commencement for the hosts erstwhile again connected Saturday.

Jamie McDonnell is expected to beryllium retired until astatine slightest the caller twelvemonth for Oxford aft the midfielder suffered a hamstring wounded past month, portion Dutch centre backmost Ruben Roosken is besides yet to retrieve from a backmost contented and is apt to miss retired connected Saturday.

Having returned to grooming from a backmost occupation successful caller weeks, it remains to beryllium seen whether South Korean midfielder Jeon Jin-Woo tin diagnostic successful the matchday squad this weekend.

Netting 5 league goals truthful acold this season, including the decisive onslaught against Stockport connected Tuesday evening, Welsh guardant Mark Harris is undoubtedly the visitors’ existent dangerman and volition beryllium looking to adhd to his tally astatine Oakwell.

Barnsley imaginable starting lineup:

Slicker; Noslin, O'Riordan, Shepherd, Kay; McGeehan, Kelly; Brownlie, Yoganathan, Cleary; Adeyemo

Oxford United imaginable starting lineup:

Cumming; Kioso, Helik, Brown, Currie; Brannagan, Sibley; Missanga, Goodrham, Dembele; Harris

We say: Barnsley 1-3 Oxford United

Having suffered decision successful each of their erstwhile 4 league matches, a feat they astir precocious replicated successful April 2022, Barnsley volition beryllium anxious to proceed their promising caller grounds against Oxford this play and anticipation to ascent retired of the League One relegation zone.

However, with the U's presently 1 of the division's signifier sides, collecting 18 points from their erstwhile 8 matches, it is hard to spot the hosts maintaining that streak connected Saturday and we foretell Ramsey's men to instrumentality each 3 points from Oakwell.

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