Home advantage could prove decisive in Barnsley - Huddersfield Town battle

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Competition: England Championship
Competition: Sat 26.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Oakwell Stadium (23287 seats)

Barnsley and Huddersfield Town have both delivered a "par" performance so far, to use a golfing expression. Both hold mid-table positions in the Championship.

Insights:
  • Huddersfield Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Barnsley form and stats

Overall Championship stats at home this season for Barnsley are 5-2-3 (wins-draw-losses). The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Oakwell Stadium.

The fans are hoping that Barnsley will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Championship game against Swansea City (placed 3rd). Before that, Barnsley had a home game versus Preston North End which ended with a victory 2-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Barnsley handle that role? We have found one game in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are zero wins, one draw and zero defeats.

Barnsley are traveling soon after this match as the Championship match at Rotherham United awaits in three days.

Barnsley are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 12 goals in 10 games. Barnsley have conceded 10 in these home matches. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Huddersfield Town form and stats

There's been little loot from Huddersfield Town's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 10 away games in the Championship. Huddersfield Town only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 3 draws.

The Huddersfield goalkeeper Ryan Schofield is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 200 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Impressive finishing from Fraizer Campbell secured the home win 2-0 against Watford in their previous game. A 0-0 draw at Coventry City's stadium before that.

We have checked recent matches where Huddersfield have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 13 games were two victories, two draws and nine defeats.

After this away game Huddersfield return home for a Championship game against Blackburn Rovers. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Huddersfield have scored 10 goals in 10 league games away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Huddersfield have conceded 19 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Barnsley victories, two draws and five Huddersfield Town wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

BarnsleyC. Woodrow
C. Woodrow
7 goals
Huddersfield TownJ. Koroma
J. Koroma
6 goals
Huddersfield TownF. Campbell
F. Campbell
4 goals

Barnsley missing players

Huddersfield Town missing players

Barnsley Huddersfield Town
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 2 10 20
8 5 1 Won W 1 2 8
4 2 1 Drew D 0 3 4
8 3 1 Lost L 1 5 8
23 12 4 Scored S 3 10 24
26 10 4 Conceded C 3 19 27
95% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 90%
80% 60% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 75%
55% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 70% 50%
15% 20% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 15%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 15%
45% 30% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 40%
25% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 30% 40%
35% 40% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 50% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.4 1.6 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 1.1 1.4
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.8 11.2 12.3 Shots (avg) S ( 10.5 10 10.9
3.4 4 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 3.3 3.1
34% 30% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 30% 39%
Key stats in Championship this season:
  • Huddersfield Town have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Norwich City 20 13 4 3 29 18 10 6 3 1 13 7 10 7 1 2 16 11 11 43
2 AFC Bournemouth 20 10 8 2 35 16 10 7 2 1 20 8 10 3 6 1 15 8 19 38
3 Swansea City 20 10 6 4 23 12 10 6 3 1 13 4 10 4 3 3 10 8 11 36
4 Brentford 20 9 8 3 31 18 10 4 5 1 16 10 10 5 3 2 15 8 13 35
5 Watford 20 9 7 4 23 15 10 7 2 1 19 9 10 2 5 3 4 6 8 34
6 Middlesbrough 20 9 6 5 24 15 10 7 2 1 15 4 10 2 4 4 9 11 9 33
7 Stoke City 20 9 6 5 25 20 10 5 2 3 16 15 10 4 4 2 9 5 5 33
8 Reading 20 10 3 7 30 26 10 6 0 4 14 11 10 4 3 3 16 15 4 33
9 Bristol City 20 9 3 8 20 21 10 4 2 4 8 9 10 5 1 4 12 12 -1 30
10 Cardiff City 20 8 5 7 26 20 10 4 2 4 16 11 10 4 3 3 10 9 6 29
11 Blackburn Rovers 20 8 4 8 34 24 10 5 2 3 17 11 10 3 2 5 17 13 10 28
12 Huddersfield Town 20 8 4 8 24 27 10 6 1 3 14 8 10 2 3 5 10 19 -3 28
13 Barnsley 20 8 4 8 23 26 10 5 2 3 12 10 10 3 2 5 11 16 -3 28
14 Luton Town 20 7 6 7 17 21 10 4 4 2 13 10 10 3 2 5 4 11 -4 27
15 Preston North End 20 8 2 10 27 30 10 3 1 6 8 12 10 5 1 4 19 18 -3 26
16 Millwall 20 5 10 5 17 18 10 1 7 2 8 10 10 4 3 3 9 8 -1 25
17 Birmingham City 20 5 7 8 17 23 10 2 2 6 8 15 10 3 5 2 9 8 -6 22
18 Coventry City 20 5 7 8 20 28 10 4 4 2 12 13 10 1 3 6 8 15 -8 22
19 Queens Park Rangers 20 4 8 8 19 27 10 3 4 3 11 11 10 1 4 5 8 16 -8 20
20 Nottingham Forest 20 4 5 11 14 25 10 3 3 4 10 11 10 1 2 7 4 14 -11 17
21 Rotherham United 19 4 4 11 18 27 9 3 2 4 11 10 10 1 2 7 7 17 -9 16
22 Derby County 19 3 7 9 10 22 10 1 4 5 5 13 9 2 3 4 5 9 -12 16
23 Sheffield Wednesday 20 4 6 10 11 21 10 2 5 3 6 7 10 2 1 7 5 14 -10 12
24 Wycombe Wanderers 20 2 6 12 12 29 10 1 4 5 5 10 10 1 2 7 7 19 -17 12

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The English Football League Championship (usually shortened to the Championship) is the second highest division in the English football league system. 24 teams play 46 fixtures from August to May, meeting each other twice. The Championship is the wealthiest second-level division in the world.