League One: Peterborough vs Barnsley – Betting preview

Ace Football previews the League One game between Peterborough and Barnsley who meet up on Tuesday. The match preview includes the current team news, stats, and a recommended betting tip.

As the early season favourites, Peterborough will look to justify their title credentials this coming Tuesday when they take on Barnsley for a round 4 match in the League One.

A look at the League One standings shows that seven points and 20 places currently separate the two teams.

Form: Peterborough vs Barnsley

Peterborough Form

Peterborough endured a tough spell in their previous three matches, which brought three defeats. They lost 0-2 against Luton, before Accrington won 2-1, while Wigan claimed a victory in a 2-0 match. Peterborough just have a single home win to show from their efforts in the past six League One matches at the Weston Homes Stadium. They also drew two and lost three of these six encounters, in which they scored six and conceded ten goals.

Barnsley Form

Barnsley are unbeaten in their previous three matches, winning 3-2 against Burton, before recording a 2-2 draw with Fleetwood. Another draw followed then, this time 1-1 against Bolton. Barnsley claimed two wins against one draw and three defeats in their last six away matches in the League One. The scoreline from these matches reads 16 goals conceded and 14 scored.

Betting facts for Peterborough and Barnsley

Here are some facts that might be useful for placing bets on the upcoming game between Peterborough and Barnsley. The facts are based on the statistics from the last couple of matches that these teams played across all tournaments.

Players in form: Peterborough vs Barnsley

As the new League One campaign has recently started, we are still a bit in the dark, as to which striker will dominate the top scorer table for Peterborough and Barnsley this season. However, there might be some interesting prospects, when looking at the list of players who are in the best form at the moment.

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Full-time result

In their last 10 matches at Weston Homes Stadium across all tournaments Peterborough won four times, drew three and lost three times. Barnsley claimed four wins, one draw and five defeats in their last 10 games away. Peterborough lost 5 matches on the bounce. Amazingly, Barnsley failed to keep a clean sheet in their 17 last matches. Barnsley have not lost to Peterborough in 6 consecutive home meetings.

Both teams to score

Peterborough scored the first goal of the match in five of their previous ten games. Barnsley scored the opening goal in six of the last ten games. Both teams have scored in the last 6 consecutive away games Barnsley played. Both teams have been quite terrible at keeping their opponents at bay in recent matches. While Peterborough managed to keep a clean sheet in zero of the last 10 games, Barnsley kept their opponent from scoring in zero of their last 10 matches. Both Team have scored in 3 last consecutive meetings between Peterborough and Barnsley when playing at Weston Homes Stadium.

Total goals

Over 2.5 goals happened in five of Peterborough’s last ten matches across all tournaments. They pulled off an average of 0.9 goals during this run. Over 2.5 goals were scored in eight of the ten most recent games across all tournaments for Barnsley. They performed an average of 2.4 goals in these. Somehow Peterborough failed to keep a clean sheet in their previous 12 matches. Barnsley are on a fine streak of scoring at least one goal in their last 13 matches.