Barnsley hosts Nottingham Forest in the English EFL Cup 1/64 finals. The match will be played on Saturday, September 5th at Oakwell (Barnsley)
Barnsley just miraculously managed to maintain a place in the Championship in the last season. It managed to beat Brentford in added time of the away match. Miracles in football do happen sometimes. Barnsley fought to the end. However, taking into account the calendar, all experts predicted Barnsley's relegation by 99.9 percent. Perhaps the key moment was the victory just over Nottingham Forest in the penultimate round. And it was gained in added time either. Don’t forget that the Austrian specialist Schruber headed the Tykes only in the middle of the season! Well, now he is almost a hero of the city. And it is true. The team managed to keep Widrow and Chaplin, who are the main scorers. Therefore, it will try to perform much better in the new season.
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The Foresters were in the opposite situation. By the end of the season, Nottingham was so exhausted that it could not gain a single victory in the last six matches. The defeat to Swansea in the last round (1-4) was the apotheosis of failures. Oddly enough, the head coach Lyamouchi retained his post after such a failure, but the fans still demand his resignation. I wonder how the Frenchman is going to rehabilitate himself. The Reds did not play a single match in the short offseason. And they will hardly count on something serious at the start of the Championship.
In football, everyone wants to pay tribute to temper, especially in England and in the cup matches. Barnsley proved to be a real fighter in the absence of a quality attack and about a complete hole in the defense. Maybe Forest is the favorite. But it is a favorite on paper. If the Tykes will play the same way as at the end of the season, they will definitely achieve a positive result for themselves. I think the hosts will at least not lose in regulation time.
Prediction for the match: Barnsley to win with +0.5 handicap
