Bolton v Barnsley, second leg of the second leg of the promotion play-off from League Three to League Two in England, is scheduled for Tuesday, May 7, from 22:00 at the Toughsheet Community Stadium .
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Bolton is almost qualified for the final of the promotion play-off in the Championship after winning the first leg, on the field of Barnsley, score 3-1, after the goals scored by Charles (25, 53p) and R. Williams ( 90+4), respectively, Cosgrove (75).
Bolton finished the League One regular season in 3rd place with 87 points, five points behind Derby County (92 points), who were directly promoted along with Portsmouth, the team from 1st place (97 points), and in the last five games played in the championship before the play-off, he recorded two wins and three draws.
Ian Evatt’s side have been leaders in a hierarchy of games played at home in the Championship, with 15 successes, five draws and three failures, and the team’s top scorer is Dion Charles, with 16 successes in League One (14 in the regular season, two in the play-offs).
Bolton was relegated from the Championship in 2019 and from League One in 2020, where it returned after only one season spent in League Two, and the last appearance in the Premier League was in the 2011-2012 season.
Barnsley finished 6th at the end of the regular season with 76 points, just two ahead of Lincoln City who finished 7th (teams from 3rd to 6th enter the play-offs) and in the last five league stages they recorded two draw results and three defeats.
In the matches played away in the current edition of League One, the team of Martin Devaney, appointed on April 22 as interim in place of Neill Collins, with whom Barnsley had started the 2023-2024 season, ticked 12 successes, six draws and five failures, and its top scorer in the championship is Devante Cole, with 18 goals.
Barnsley was relegated from the Championship in 2022, and in the last edition of League One, it finished in 4th place and lost the final of the promotion play-off, at Wembley, 0-1 with Sheffield Wednesday (in the semi-finals even Bolton passed, 1-1 away and 1-0 at home), and has only one season spent in the Premier League, 1988-1989.
Apart from the first-leg match, the two teams drew twice in the regular season, 1-1 in the first leg at Bolton and 2-2 in the second leg at Barnsley.
Superbet offers odds of 1.20 for the 1X prediction: home win or draw in 90 minutes of regular time in Bolton v Barnsley.
| Bolton – Barnsley | 1X | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Quota | 1.20 |
* rate valid at the time of publication of this article
