The game’s lone goal came at 12 minutes when Reds keeper Jackson Smith mishandled defender Macauley Gillesphey’s free-kick, allowing Gillesphey to score for the second straight game.
During their three-game winning streak, Barnsley was unable to muster a reaction, which hurt their prospects of making it to the League One playoffs.
It was a night when key duo Josh Earl and Adam Phillips came off with strains for the Reds.
Already missing on the injury front are Joe Gauci, Jonathan Lewis, Donovan Pines, Fabio Jalo and Barry Cotter, while Mael de Gevigney serves the final match of a three-match ban against Blackpool this weekend.
“I thought we played some decent stuff in the first half without that final cutting edge. DKD (Davis Keillor-Dunn) has a great opportunity he works for himself and we concede a goal from an error and everyone could see the problems we had.
“It is a silly goal we conceded.
“The lads looked a bit leggy with the injury problems we have got and we couldn’t find that equaliser.
It was an error and you don’t want to come and give a silly goal away and we did that. But the response was good. We huffed and puffed in the second half with mounting problems with one or two things not going right, but we’ll get on with it.
The boys put their bodies on the line and we are picking up strains and we’ve one or two (new) injuries.
“It looks like a strain with Early and Phillo is the same. The list mounts up doesn’t it. Butt we cannot become victims with that.”
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