HEAD TO HEAD: v BARNSLEY HEAD TO HEAD: v BARNSLEY

HEAD TO HEAD: v BARNSLEY

This weekend Walsall Football Club will travel to Oakwell to take on Barnsley for the latest Sky Bet League 1 fixture of the season. Below are the latest head-to-head statistics.
This weekend Walsall Football Club will travel to Oakwell to take on Barnsley for the latest Sky Bet League 1 fixture of the season. Below are the latest head-to-head statistics.

In terms of head-to-head of the forty-two previous meetings, it's Walsall that hold the slight overall lead with fifteen wins to the Tykes' fourteen. There have also been thirteen draws between the two.

Their first official meeting took place at Oakwell, on 3rd December 1898, and ended all-square, with one goal each.

In more recent times, they last met at Banks's Stadium, on Saturday, 13th December 2014, the match, which was played in front of 4,433 supporters, ended 3-1 to Walsall, a Jordan Cook brace and Tom Bradshaw strike proving enough to cancel out Lewin Nyatanga's 29th minute opener, and secure a vital win for the Saddlers.

Referee Trevor Kettle handed out yellow cards to Saddlers striker Tom Bradshaw, and Barnsley's Brad Abbott, Martin Cranie and Luke Berry.

The teams are level over the last five meetings with two wins and losses each, with the other clash ending in a draw.

Walsall have won two, drawn two, and lost six of the last ten league meetings.
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