Barnsley vs Sheffield Wednesday Preview 21/03/2023

Barnsley vs Sheffield Wednesday – 21/03/2023

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Fourth will tackle the league leaders on the Oakwell Stadium this Wednesday evening as Barnsley play hosts Sheffield Wednesday with the Tykes sitting behind the League One frontrunners by 9 factors with an opportunity to make it six.

In actuality, it appears as if the league title is Wednesday’s to lose with them having two video games in hand to play on second-placed Plymouth Argyle with a one-point hole already. Ipswich City are additionally three behind having performed two extra video games as effectively.

Heading into this one, nevertheless, Barnsley are sitting behind Wednesday by 9 factors and a win right here would little doubt be their largest of the season.

Up to now, the Tykes have received 21 video games and misplaced solely eight and sit with the perfect defensive report in League One after Wednesday, as they’ve let in simply 29 objectives from 35 video games.

Michael Duff’s aspect are coming into this one of their greatest stint of type all season lengthy, as they’ve not misplaced a sport since shedding to Charlton Athletic 2-0 again in the course of January.

Barnsley have since gone on to register 9 wins and two attracts within the 11 video games since then, defeating sides like Derby County 4-1, Cheltenham City 4-0, Plymouth Argyle 3-0 and Portsmouth 3-1.

It means they’ve crushed two sides within the prime six and even went on to beat seventh-placed Wycombe Wanderers 1-0 away from dwelling final outing.

Wednesday did drop factors for the primary time in six video games final Friday evening after they drew at dwelling to Bolton Wanderers 1-1. The membership beforehand beat Charlton, Peterborough and Portsmouth by a 1-0 scoreline after hammering MK Dons 5-2 and Morecambe 3-0.

Darren Moore’s males have now drawn 9 video games and misplaced solely three this season with 62 objectives scored and a league’s greatest defensive report of solely 23 objectives let in.

In reality, fairly extremely, a type of losses for Darren Moore’s males got here in opposition to Barnsley within the final outing, as Devante Cole scored within the first half earlier than James Norwood made it 2-0 and inflicted Wednesday’s first defeat of the season and their solely loss at Hillsborough this marketing campaign.

Issues have modified fairly a bit since, nevertheless, however each groups are set to be proper in rivalry for promotion into the Championship. Barnsley now have a niche of 5 factors on Bolton in sixth too, and it will be fairly disastrous for them in the event that they have been to lose their playoff place.

Forebet predicts a win for Wednesday and for the sport to see below 2.5 objectives.