Luton Town vs Barnsley - prediction, team news, lineups

Both aiming to bounce backmost from defeats astatine the weekend, Luton Town and Barnsley volition bash conflict astatine Kenilworth Road astatine the weekend.

The visitors person dropped into the relegation portion successful the League One table pursuing back-to-back league losses, portion their hosts are conscionable 3 points amended disconnected successful 16th spot.

Match preview

Luton Town volition acceptable retired to marque a instrumentality to winning ways connected Tuesday and statesman to enactment a dilatory commencement to the League One play down them.

After a beardown extremity to 2025-26, resulting successful a seventh-placed decorativeness conscionable a constituent disconnected the playoff spots, they acceptable retired to physique nether Jack Wilshere and spell 1 amended to situation for a instrumentality to the Championship, but they are yet to get up and moving frankincense far.

After 9 matches, the Hatters beryllium 16th connected 11 points, having won 3 and mislaid 4 of those and scored 17 goals, a tally lone bettered by 5 sides, portion besides conceding 17 - the joint-third astir successful the division.

Wilshere's men person present mislaid 3 of their past 4 league matches, firstly falling to Stevenage and Bradford City earlier their planetary break, earlier thrashing Wycombe Wanderers 4-1 distant and losing successful a travel to MK Dons connected Saturday, having pulled level done Jordan Clark 20 minutes from clip earlier Aaron Collins sealed a 2-1 location triumph from the spot.

Left 16th and already 7 points disconnected the apical six and conscionable 3 supra the relegation zone, Luton Town volition beryllium hopeless to kickstart their play with a location triumph connected Tuesday.

Their visitors are besides keen to bounce backmost having endured a dismal run frankincense far.

Heading into the 2026-27 play connected the backmost of a managerial alteration implicit the summer, with Daniel Stendel, who antecedently oversaw a promotion to the Championship, returning to the dugout, but his 2nd tenure has not started good astatine Oakwell.

The South Yorkshire outfit person managed conscionable 8 points from their archetypal 9 matches, with lone 3 sides scoring less than their 9 goals and conscionable 3 conceding much than the 17 they person allowed.

Stendel's men present caput to Kenilworth Road connected the backmost of an eight-game winless streak including 7 losses, astir precocious hosting Cambridge United connected Saturday and suffering a 2nd consecutive league defeat contempt going up done Vimal Yoganathan, arsenic Ben Knight levelled and Shayne Lavery snatched each 3 points for the visitors successful wounded time.

Now sat 21st and without a league triumph since aboriginal September, Barnsley marque the travel successful midweek successful hunt of a much-needed instrumentality to winning ways.

Luton Town League One form:

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Luton Town signifier (all competitions):

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Barnsley League One form:

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Barnsley signifier (all competitions):

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Team News

Luton Town are without Shandon Baptiste, Shayden Morris, Benedict Benagr and Gideon Kodua connected Tuesday owed to ongoing injuries.

Nakhi Wells should proceed to pb the line, contempt contention from Callum Marshall and Devante Cole, having scored six goals truthful acold this season, portion Clark and Kasey Palmer are cardinal men successful support.

Jake Richards, Isaiah Jones and Marshall volition vie for spots elsewhere successful the onslaught successful spot of Jamie Donley and Tudor Mendel-Idowu, though, portion Liam Walsh is simply a mainstay successful midfield.

Barnsley's attackers Ben Hamed Toure and Makenzie Kirk stay confined to the attraction country alongside Ziyad Larkeche.

Goalkeeper Cieran Slicker was acceptable to marque the seat astatine the play aft an wounded layoff and could marque a archetypal commencement of the play successful spot of Rogan Ravenhill.

Tobi Adeyemo made his debut from the outset against Cambridge having arrived arsenic a escaped cause this week, and helium whitethorn again pb the enactment with enactment from Reyes Cleary, Yoganathan and Rylan Brownlie, portion Cameron McGeehan and Patrick Kelly should proceed successful midfield successful the lack of the suspended Luca Connell.

Luton Town imaginable starting lineup:

Shea; Odoffin, Andersen, Johnston, Naismith; Walsh; Marshall, Clark, Palmer, Richards; Wells

Barnsley imaginable starting lineup:

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

We say: Luton Town 2-0 Barnsley

Both teams are somewhat retired of sorts coming into Tuesday's game, but the visitors look further from uncovering their groove, peculiarly successful attack, portion Luton Town inactive person the prime to bounce backmost and kickstart a much-improved run.

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