Barnsley’s Championship play-off final against Sheffield Wednesday is scheduled for Monday, May 29 at 5:00 p.m. at Wembley Stadium in London.
Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday will meet in a match that will determine the third League One team to play in the Championship (England’s second division) next season.
According to the regulations, three teams are promoted, the first two are directly ranked (Plymouth Argyle and Ipswich Town), and the third is after the play-offs, in which the teams ranked 3-6 take part (elimination system, semi-finals) and played the final).
Barnsley finished the season in 4th place, 12 points off 2nd place, and in the promotion play-off semi-final they edged out Bolton Wanderers (5th place), 1-1 away and 1-0 at home .
The team coached by Michael Duff, the 45-year-old former Northern Ireland international who spent most of his career (12 years) at Burnley, with whom he also spent two seasons in the Premier League, finished the season poorly, with with just one point accumulated in the last three stages, although at one point he was on a 12-match unbeaten run.
Sheffield Wednesday finished the league in 3rd place, just two points off 2nd place, although with 10 stages to go they were top of the table, three points ahead of Ipswich Town who also played two more games.
The team is coached by Darren Moore, the 48-year-old former Jamaican international who played in the Premier League for Bradford City, West Bromwich Albion and Derby County, and was relegated from top spot after the second leg against Barnsley ยป on the road, 2-4, followed by four more games without a win.
Sheffield Wednesday suffered a dramatic promotion play-off semi-final defeat by Peterborough (6), 0-4 away and 5-1 (4-0 after 90 minutes, 5-1 after 120 minutes, 5-3 after penalty) on the home field.
Barnsley won the regular season away match on 3 September 2022 at Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 (Cole 34, Norwood 82) and won the second leg on 21 March 2023 at home 4-2 (Cole 10, Norwood 12, Watters 83, Kitching 90+6 / Grigory 33, 74).
Superbet offers odds of 1.67 on the PsFX prediction: a draw at half-time or at the end of 90 minutes of regular time in the match Barnsley – Sheffield Wednesday.
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| Quota | 1.67 |
* the tariff is valid at the time of publication of the article
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