Middlesbrough 3-1 Barnsley: result and report

Championship · Saturday 10 March 2018

Result

Middlesbrough 3-1 Barnsley

Championship · Saturday 10 March 2018, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Middlesbrough · Barnsley · Championship predictions

Middlesbrough 3-1 Barnsley: match report

Middlesbrough defeated Barnsley 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 10 March 2018. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Daniel Ayala opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Middlesbrough's goals came from Daniel Ayala (1'), Adama Traoré (18') and P. Bamford (53'). Barnsley scored through Kieffer Moore (58').

Discipline: Middlesbrough received no yellow cards; Barnsley received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Middlesbrough were 6th on 58 points from 36 and Barnsley 21st on 32 points from 35. Middlesbrough went on to finish that season 6th with 77 points, and Barnsley 22nd with 41.

Middlesbrough lined up in a 4-3-3 and Barnsley in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Adama Traoré of Middlesbrough (8.4), ahead of Patrick Bamford (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Middlesbrough wins, 2 draws and 4 for Barnsley.

Going into the match Middlesbrough's last five read W-W-D-W-L and Barnsley's L-D-W-L-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · Daniel AyalaMiddlesbrough · 1-0
  • 5'Yellow card · G. GardnerBarnsley
  • 18'Goal · Adama TraoréMiddlesbrough · 2-0
  • 53'Goal · P. BamfordMiddlesbrough · 3-0
  • 58'Goal · Kieffer MooreBarnsley · 3-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Middlesbrough 4, draws 2, Barnsley 4.

Team news

Middlesbrough line-up (4-3-3)

Darren Randolph, George Friend, Yuki Takahashi, Ryan Shotton, Ben Gibson, Adam Clayton, Jonathan Howson, M. Bešić, Patrick Bamford, Stewart Downing, Adama Traoré

Barnsley line-up (4-1-4-1)

Nick Townsend, Liam Lindsay, Dimitri Cavaré, Adam Jackson, Dani Pinillos, Joe Williams, Oli McBurnie, Gary Gardner, Christoph Knasmüllner, Ryan Hedges, Kieffer Moore