Ipswich vs Barnsley Match Preview

Match info:

Ipswich vs Barnsley

Competition – Championship

Stadium – Portman Road Stadium

Date: 1st November 2013

Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT+1

14th place Ipswich host 23rd position Barnsley at Portman Road this Friday evening in the Championship.


Recent form:

Ipswich – D L D D W L W

Barnsley – D W L D L L L 

Ipswich have lost 2 of their last 7 while Barnsley have won just 1 of their last 7.

Form

The Championship table currently looks like this:

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Leeds United 33 21 9 3 68 20 +48 72
2 Sheffield United 33 22 6 5 47 23 +24 70
3 Burnley 33 17 14 2 39 9 +30 65
4 Sunderland 33 17 11 5 50 30 +20 62
5 Blackburn Rovers 33 15 6 12 39 31 +8 51
6 West Bromwich Albion 33 11 15 7 42 31 +11 48
7 Coventry City 33 13 8 12 44 41 +3 47
8 Bristol City 33 11 13 9 41 37 +4 46
9 Sheffield Wedn… 33 12 9 12 46 50 -4 45
10 Watford 33 13 6 14 43 48 -5 45
11 Middlesbrough 32 12 8 12 50 43 +7 44
12 Norwich City 33 11 11 11 51 45 +6 44
13 Queens Park Rangers 33 11 11 11 39 41 -2 44
14 Millwall 33 10 12 11 33 34 -1 42
15 Preston North End 33 9 15 9 35 39 -4 42
16 Oxford United 33 9 11 13 34 47 -13 38
17 Swansea City 33 10 7 16 34 46 -12 37
18 Portsmouth 33 9 9 15 41 55 -14 36
19 Stoke City 32 8 11 13 31 40 -9 35
20 Cardiff City 32 7 11 14 35 54 -19 32
21 Hull City 32 7 9 16 32 43 -11 30
22 Derby County 33 7 8 18 33 46 -13 29
23 Plymouth Argyle 33 6 11 16 35 67 -32 29
24 Luton Town 33 7 7 19 31 53 -22 28

A win for Ipswich could see them go as high as 8th while a win for Barnsley could move them as high as 18th.

Head-to-head

These two sides have met 23 times in recent years and Ipswich have come out on top most often (Ipswich 11 wins, Barnsley 5 wins, 7 draws).

History

The last 5 meetings between these two sides finished 1:1, 1:1, 1:0, 5:3 and 1:1.

Possible line-ups

Ipswich

Gerken
Berra
Chambers
Cresswell
Smith
Anderson
Skuse
Hyam
Tunnicliffe
McGoldrick
Murphy

Barnsley

Butland
Cranie
M'voto
Kennedy
Wiseman
McCourt
Fox
Perkins
Mellis
Pedersen
O'Grady

Bookmakers make Ipswich odds-on favourites to come out on top in this match.

Odds: Ipswich (4/6) Draw (3/1) Barnsley (19/4)Gamingtips Prediction – Ipswich 1:1 Barnsley 

Very little separated these two sides last season.

Ipswich finished 14th in the Championship last season.

They scored 48 goals in 46 games and conceded 61.

Barnsley finished just 1 point above the relegation zone in 21st position.

They scored 56 goals in 46 games and conceded 70.

Ipswich haven’t lost in 5 at home to Barnsley.

Barnsley lost 8 of their opening 11 matches and if they are to get a result on Friday, they must improve their defensive record (conceded more than 2 goals per game on average – worst defensive record in the Championship).

Ultimately Ipswich should have enough to overcome Barnsley but odds of 4/6 don’t offer great value from a betting perspective.

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