Barnsley vs Charlton Athletic
EFL League One
Oakwell Stadium
Charlton, who were unable to register a win for some time, headed into the fixture in desperate need of points. Their opponents meanwhile, were in good form and had the home support as well.
Benson opened the scoring in the 10th minute for the home side. The remainder of the half did not witness further goals. Norwood and Cole extended the lead for Barnsley. Payne scored the only goal for the visitors in the 85th minute.
Barnsley vs Charlton Athletic: Match report
Full time score: Barnsley 3-1 Charlton Athletic
Barnsley: Walton (gk), Williams, Cundy (McCarthy, 66), Andersen (C), Edwards, Cadden (Larkeche, 66), Benson, Kane, Thomas (Martin, 86), Norwood (Phillips, 59), Cole.
Subs: Searle (gk), Hondermarck, Tedić.
Charlton Athletic: MacGillivray (gk), Dobson (McGrandles, 72), Lavelle, O’Connell, Stockley (C), Morgan, Rak-Sakyi (Payne, 72), Egbo (Sessegnon, 72), Fraser (Leaburn, 59), Blackett-Taylor (Kirk, 59), Clare.
Subs:Harness (gk), Inniss.
Post match reaction
Barnsley coach Michael Duff: “I didn’t think we were brilliant today. We knew we might suffer without the ball at times.
“I don’t really remember Jack [Walton] having a lot of saves to make. I thought we were really clinical as well.”
“We want to push high up the pitch. The front three have changed – normally we would press with the wing-backs and the front three. Two or three of them changed today. We couldn’t quite figure it out; they basically played through us too much.
“So we shortened the distance between the center forwards and center halves, denied space for them to play in and that helped.”
