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Nottm. Forest pack their bags to visit Barnsley at Oakwell on Saturday afternoon, needing to turn around their fortunes at the ground. The Forest will be hoping to improve upon a record which has seen them lose 18 and win only 8 of the 34 games.
The previous match played between the two at Oakwell was more than three years back, in September 2005, with Barnsley running out comfortable 2 - 0 winners in a League One match.
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| Recent encounters between the teams: | |||||
| 2008/2009 | Sat 29 Nov | Nottm. Forest | 1 - 0 | Barnsley | CHMP |
| 2005/2006 | Fri 27 Jan | Nottm. Forest | 0 - 2 | Barnsley | LGE1 |
| 2005/2006 | Sat 10 Sep | Barnsley | 2 - 0 | Nottm. Forest | LGE1 |
| 2001/2002 | Sat 12 Jan | Nottm. Forest | 0 - 0 | Barnsley | CHMP |
| 2001/2002 | Sat 18 Aug | Barnsley | 2 - 1 | Nottm. Forest | CHMP |
| 2000/2001 | Wed 07 Mar | Nottm. Forest | 1 - 0 | Barnsley | CHMP |
| 2000/2001 | Sat 14 Oct | Barnsley | 3 - 4 | Nottm. Forest | CHMP |
Recent respective form guides
Barnsley are not in the best of form at home, with two wins, two draws, and two defeats in their last six. The goals for column just outweighs the goals against over this period, 7 to 6.
The away form of Nottm. Forest is pretty dire, chalking up just 1 victory, with 5 defeats, from the last six. Forest have conceded 13 goals in these games, and only hit 3 in reply.
Barnsley are currently lying in 19th place in Coca-Cola Championship having mustered a points tally of 44 from their 38 matches played. Nottm. Forest are stuck down in the relegation zone of Coca-Cola Championship with a return of just 41 points from their 40 games thus far.
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| Current form guides: | P | W | D | L | F | A | P |
| Barnsley | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 |
| Nottm. Forest | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 7 |
FootyMad's prediction ...
FootyMad see this game edging towards a narrow win for the Tykes, as the Forest have been none too clever on the road in recent matches. Home win
| Sequence statistics: | |
| Barnsley | No sequences of note |
| Nottm. Forest | Lost each of the previous 2 away matches. Not won in previous 2 away matches. An overall losing run of 3 games. No win in the 4 most recent games. |