Expected line-ups

Each side's usual system and players over its recent matches, without the injured: a likely eleven, not the team news.

Hartlepool United4-4-2

Civil Lloyd Armstrong Manolache Piotrowski May Badby Earing Morgan Cullingworth Allen

• Out: Chay Gurr (striker, injured: twisted ankle, back about 2 January)

Barnsley4-2-3-1 DM AM Wide

Ferguson Leddy Hutchings Knowles Brassington Exton Leister Senior Conner Knight Gelhardt

Form

#	Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Portsmouth	26	+28	57
2	Bolton Wanderers	24	+27	55
3	Derby County	26	+18	50
4	Preston North End	26	+14	47
5	Oxford United	26	+10	44
6	Norwich City	26	+10	41
7	Ipswich Town	24	+5	40
8	Boreham Wood	25	+6	39
9	Barnsley	25	+5	39
10	Bradford City	26	+1	39
11	Brentford	26	+3	38
12	Hartlepool United	24	+12	36
13	Woking	26	-3	34
14	Crawley Town	25	+8	30
15	Sunderland	25	-1	30
16	Barnet	26	-10	29
17	Southend United	25	-13	25
18	Sutton United	26	-15	24
19	Salford City	26	-9	23
20	Walsall	25	-22	23
21	Cambridge United	26	-21	22
22	Leyton Orient	26	-14	21
23	Tranmere Rovers	26	-19	21
24	Cheltenham Town	26	-20	18

Head to head

• Barnsley 2-1 Hartlepool United Sky Bet League One
• Barnsley 2-1 Hartlepool United Carabao Cup
• Hartlepool United 3-0 Barnsley English FA Cup
• Hartlepool United 0-2 Barnsley Sky Bet League One
• Barnsley 3-0 Hartlepool United Sky Bet League One