We look back at each match from the 2015-2016 season
A GLANCE BACK – GAME 22
At Oakwell
Barnsley 1 Port Vale 2
Attendance: 8,696 including 278 visiting supporters
League One
November 2015
thSaturday 14
minute to make sure on a tense final quarter of an hour.thVale picked up three precious points against an out-of-sorts Barnsley team, despite a spirited first half performance from the home side. Rob Page’s side were on the back foot for much of the first half, but took an unexpected lead thanks to a superb header from Ajay Leitch Smith, who climbed to meet a cross from Michael O‘Connor to plant the ball into the top corner. Sam Foley then doubled the visitors’ lead just seventy-five seconds into the second half to give Vale that all-important cushion, but Barnsley pulled a goal back in the 77
BARNSLEY: Nick Townsend, Simeaon Jackson, Sam Winnall, Marc Roberts, Michael Smith, Brad Abbott, George Maris SUBS: Adam Davies, James Bree, George Smith, Alfie Mawson, Lewin Nyatanga, Ben Pearson, Adam Hammill, Marley Watkins, Ivan Toney, Conor Hourihane, Lloyd Isgrove.
PORT VALE: Chris Neal, Remie Streete, Chris Birchall, Uche Ikpeazu, JJ Hooper, Colin Daniel, Sam Kelly. SUBS: Jak Alnwick, Adam Yates, Ryan McGivern, Richard Duffy, Carl Dickinson, Byron Moore, Anthony Grant, Michael O’Connor, Sam Foley, Ajay Leitch-Smith, Louis Dodds.
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