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 Sunderland 15 9 4 2 25 11 +14 31
2 Sheffield United 15 10 3 2 19 7 +12 31
3 Leeds United 15 8 5 2 24 9 +15 29
4 Burnley 15 7 6 2 18 6 +12 27
5 West Bromwich Albion 15 6 7 2 16 9 +7 25
6 Watford 15 8 1 6 23 22 +1 25
7 Middlesbrough 15 7 3 5 23 17 +6 24
8 Millwall 15 6 5 4 18 13 +5 23
9 Blackburn Rovers 15 6 4 5 19 17 +2 22
10 Bristol City 15 5 7 3 20 19 +1 22
11 Swansea City 15 5 4 6 11 10 +1 19
12 Derby County 15 5 4 6 19 19 +0 19
13 Stoke City 15 5 4 6 18 19 -1 19
14 Norwich City 15 4 6 5 23 22 +1 18
15 Sheffield Wedn… 15 5 3 7 17 25 -8 18
16 Oxford United 15 4 5 6 17 18 -1 17
17 Coventry City 15 4 4 7 20 21 -1 16
18 Plymouth Argyle 15 4 4 7 15 26 -11 16
19 Hull City 15 3 6 6 16 20 -4 15
20 Preston North End 15 3 6 6 15 23 -8 15
21 Luton Town 15 4 3 8 17 26 -9 15
22 Cardiff City 15 4 3 8 14 23 -9 15
23 Portsmouth 15 2 6 7 16 28 -12 12
24 Queens Park Rangers 15 1 7 7 12 25 -13 10

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.

What do you think will happen?

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