Peterborough United vs Barnsley - prediction, team news, lineups

Peterborough United volition invited chap League One broadside Barnsley to the Weston Homes Stadium connected Tuesday for an EFL Cup clash with a fourth-round spot connected the line.

The 2 sides person some deed pugnacious spells successful England's 3rd tier with the hosts winless since their second-round triumph and their visitors having suffered consecutive defeats.

Match preview

Peterborough United instrumentality to the Weston Homes Stadium connected Tuesday aiming to extremity a winless streak and proceed their EFL Cup tally to the 4th round, having past gone past this signifier successful 2009-10.

The Posh began the contention successful their season-opener against Bristol Rovers successful aboriginal August and won 1-0 done Harry Leonard, earlier facing a pugnacious travel to second-tier Watford and progressing successful style, dishing retired a 5-1 beating astatine Vicarage Road with Leonard scoring different brace alongside an ain extremity and goals from Bolu Shofowoke and Harrison Jones.

That is inactive their past victory, though, having failed to adhd a 2nd notch to their league wins file successful 4 attempts since, leaving them successful the League One relegation zone connected conscionable 5 points from six matches, conceding 10 goals successful that time.

After defeats to Blackpool and Sheffield Wednesday either broadside of a stalemate against Stevenage, Luke Williams's broadside astir precocious visited MK Dons astatine the play and were astatine slightest capable to travel from down to stock the points, having trailed until the last 5 minutes to an Aaron Collins extremity earlier Chris Conn-Clarke levelled.

Peterborough volition present bid to instrumentality the positives from that distant gully and bounce backmost to winning ways to beforehand successful the EFL Cup.

The visitors, meanwhile, are besides seeking a cupful triumph to advancement aft caller setbacks successful their League One campaign.

Promotion-winning manager Daniel Stendel returned to Oakwell for a 2nd spell arsenic Barnsley manager implicit the summer, and the archetypal crippled of his tenure came against Wigan Athletic successful the EFL Cup, successful which they drew 1-1 and progressed done a punishment shootout, earlier hosting fourth-tier Crewe Alexandra successful the 2nd circular and winning 3-2 with Reyes Cleary, Tyrese Noslin and Corey O'Keeffe scoring.

That opening cupful tally has travel alongside a mixed commencement to the League One play for the Reds, who beryllium connected 7 points from six matches having already conceded 11 goals and lone scored six, with their 2 victories coming consecutively aft the cupful triumph implicit Crewe.

Stendel's men person since suffered consecutive dense defeats, firstly being beaten 5-1 astatine location to Stevenage earlier a agelong travel southbound to Plymouth Argyle ended successful a 3-0 nonaccomplishment connected Saturday, having fallen down wrong the archetypal minute.

Wounded by those 2 beatings to dampen the affirmative commencement to beingness backmost nether Stendel, Barnsley volition ow bid to bounce backmost successful Tuesday's distant travel and publication their spot successful the 4th round.

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Team News

Peterborough United stay severely deed by injuries, peculiarly successful defence, with centre-back Tom O'Connor having joined Rio Adebisi, Sam Hughes and Carl Johnston successful the attraction country alongside Matthew Garbett and Declan Frith.

Those absences permission David Okagbue and Josh Feeney arsenic the lone acceptable elder centre-backs and they volition spouse up again, portion Harley Mills whitethorn get a commencement connected the left-hand broadside of the defence.

Harry Leonard volition proceed to pb the attack, having started successful the erstwhile circular and scored doubly astatine Watford aft netting 16 league goals past term, portion 17-year-old Bolu Shofowoke, who besides scored astatine Vicarage Road, should besides support his spot astatine the apical extremity of the pitch.

Barnsley stay without first-choice goalkeeper Cieran Slicker done injury, meaning Rogan Ravenhill volition proceed to deputise aft allowing 8 goals successful the past 2 matches.

Stendel fielded a beardown starting XI successful the anterior circular and should bash truthful again, peculiarly with the request to bounce backmost from a brace of mediocre league results, nevertheless immoderate rotations whitethorn beryllium made aft Saturday's 3-0 loss.

Ben Hamed Toure should beryllium handed a archetypal start, having travel disconnected the seat astatine the weekend, portion Clayton Taylor and Amani Richards volition besides anticipation for places successful onslaught portion Luca Connell whitethorn travel into the midfield alongside Cameron McGeehan, who has scored 4 goals connected his instrumentality to the nine this season.

Peterborough United imaginable starting lineup:

Bass; Dornelly, Feeney, Okagbue, Weir; Jones, Kelly, Khela; Shofowoke, Leonard, Edwards

Barnsley imaginable starting lineup:

Ravenhill; Noslin; O'Riordan, Gale, Kay; McGeehan, Connell; Richards, Kelly, Cleary; Toure

We say: Peterborough United 3-2 Barnsley

Both teams are surely acold from their champion successful League One successful the aboriginal stages of 2026-27 but volition beryllium hopeless to refind signifier to beforehand to the 4th circular of the EFL Cup.

Despite their wounded issues, peculiarly successful defence, we springiness a flimsy borderline to Peterborough United, who managed a creditable distant gully astatine the weekend, to prevail astatine location to a Barnsley squad connected the backmost of consecutive dense losses.

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