Results for tag: Barnsley
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Mar 9, 2012 at 08:20:26 AM
[u]Reading v Leicester[/u]
Let's jump on the Reading train! The Royals are flying - how else do you describe seven successive league wins with only one goal conceded?
Suddenly, what appeared a two-team love-in for automatic promotion between Southampton and West Ham has evolved into a three-way tussle. Reading are only two points behind the leading pair now and, as a club that has traditionally ended the season well, they must surely be seen as capable of avoiding the need of a risk of last season's Play Off agony and going straight up.
Brian McDermott's side have actually won 12 of their last 14 league games and at the Madejski their recent record is eight wins out of nine: they have conceded just one goal in their last 12 hours of league football at home. Leicester really are...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Feb 17, 2012 at 08:24:05 AM
[u]Peterborough v Bristol City[/u]
Is it too early to start throwing in the phrase 'six pointer'? Probably not. Especially when you consider that there is only a third of the season to go and both these sides are lingering uncomfortably close to the drop zone.
Bristol City were bottom, rose to 19th, but a run of one win in six has put the skids under them again. They have failed to keep a clean in any of those six, and that will surely be a worry visiting London Road, where goals fly in at an alarming rate. Posh average two a game at home - a rate only bettered by four teams in the division - yet they let them in nearly as fast and have the worst home defensive record in the Championship.
You could look at this fixture and say 'cagey', but I don't think Peterborough know how to...
Posted by:
Betting.Betfair
on Dec 9, 2011 at 08:33:30 AM
[u]Barnsley v Ipswich[/u]
I know Christmas is around the corner but, seriously? Are the layers already in the festive spirit offering us 2.1 to back Barnsley? Only Cardiff sit above the Tykes in the current form table, with Keith Hill's side having won five of their last six to climb from 19th to eighth in the table. They have been particularly strong at Oakwell, winning their last five and conceding just two goals in the process.
Ipswich are at the opposite end of the form table to their hosts, having lost all of their last seven games. Defensively they have been a shambles, conceding a whopping 20 goals during that losing run. Even going ahead does little to help the Tractor Boys; they have led in three of their last four games and still managed to lose. Paul Jewell's side have the...