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  • Kick-off: 19:45
  • Venue: Oakwell Stadium
  • Attendance: 9479
  • Referee: Oliver, C

Live Commentary

90mins

The ref has blown his whistle for full time.

88mins

Barry Hayles is booked for unsporting behaviour.

85mins

Plymouth are replacing Sylvan Ebanks-Blake with Cherno Samba.

80mins

Barnsley are replacing Marc Richards with Daniel Nardiello.

80mins

Paul Hayes is replaced by Tommy Wright.

78mins

Michael McIndoe is booked for unsporting behaviour.

73mins

Plymouth are replacing Akos Buzsaky with Bojan Djordjic.

73mins

Lilian Nalis is being taken off, Luke Summerfield has come on in his place.

66mins

Neil Austin is replaced by Paul Reid.

50mins

Goal!! Marc Richards scores for Barnsley.

46mins

The second half is under way with the score currently at 1 v 2.

45mins

The ref has blown his whistle for half time.

34mins

Goal!! Barry Hayles scores for Plymouth.

29mins

Goal!! Sylvan Ebanks-Blake scores for Plymouth.

2mins

Antony Kay opens the scoring for Barnsley.

Match Report

Marc Richards grabbed his fifth goal of the season as strugglers Barnsley came from behind to secure a point against high-flying Plymouth.

Richards struck five minutes into the second half to make it 2-2 after Argyle had recovered from conceding a second-minute Antony Kay goal to grab an interval lead.

Some fans were still taking their seats when Barnsley, trying to shake off a run of three Championship defeats, burst forward down the left and Kay spotted Luke McCormick off his line and unleashed an unstoppable shot from 30 yards to claim his first of the season.

Plymouth, with three straight wins behind them, were unfazed and earned a string of corners that saw them come close to an equaliser.

Tony Capaldi curled in a three dangerous flag-kicks and Barnsley were fortunate from one when Barry Hayles squeezed in a header that hit the post before Nick Colgan smothered a second effort.

And when Capaldi whipped in a testing free-kick from an angle Marcel Seip saw his header go over the top.

Midway through the first half strong running by Hayles almost paid off when he beat Colgan to the ball and pulled it across the face of an open goal, but nobody had got forward to finish off.

The equaliser came after 29 minutes when Sylvan Ebanks-Blake chased a long clearance from McCormick, sped past Neil Austin and crashed in a shot beyond Colgan.

Two minutes later only a tremendous save stopped the visitors going in front, when Colgan turned round a fierce low shot from David Norris.

Then, after 34 minutes, Plymouth went in front when Hayles chested down a cross from Norris and volleyed past Colgan from just inside the box for his fifth goal of the season.

A minute later Richards cut into the area from the left and tried to find a gap but saw his low shot cannon off the post, before Michael McIndoe and Paul Hayes had long-range shots saved.

Five minutes into the second half Barnsley were back level. McIndoe found Kay, whose low ball was parried by the keeper but Richards was first to react and crashed in a shot from 12 yards out.

Barnsley Team

Plymouth Argyle Team

Barnsley

Plymouth Argyle

Corners

112

Fouls

1511

Goal attempts

1015

Shots off target

38

Offsides

52

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