Wigan Athletic 1-4 Barnsley: result and report

League One · Sunday 8 May 2016

Result

Wigan Athletic 1-4 Barnsley

League One · Sunday 8 May 2016, 11:30 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Wigan Athletic 1-4 Barnsley: match report

Wigan Athletic were beaten by Barnsley 1-4 in the League One on Sunday 8 May 2016. It was 1-2 at half-time.

Will Grigg opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Wigan Athletic's goal came from Will Grigg (10'). Barnsley scored through Sam Winnall (33', penalty), Sam Winnall (44'), Conor Hourihane (56') and Josh Brownhill (74').

Discipline: Wigan Athletic received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Barnsley received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Wigan Athletic were 1st on 87 points from 45 and Barnsley 6th on 71 points from 45. Wigan Athletic went on to finish that season 1st with 87 points, and Barnsley 3rd with 83.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Wigan Athletic wins, 0 draws and 0 for Barnsley.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Will GriggWigan Athletic · 1-0
  • 33'Penalty goal · Sam WinnallBarnsley · 1-1
  • 34'Yellow card · David PerkinsWigan Athletic
  • 44'Goal · Sam WinnallBarnsley · 1-2
  • 56'Goal · Conor HourihaneBarnsley · 1-3
  • 74'Goal · Josh BrownhillBarnsley · 1-4
  • 90+4'Red card · C. McCannWigan Athletic
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Adam HammillBarnsley

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Wigan Athletic 3, draws 0, Barnsley 0.

Team news

Wigan Athletic line-up

Lee Nicholls, Donervon Daniels, Craig Morgan, Jason Pearce, David Perkins, Max Power, Chris McCann, Michael Jacobs, Stephen Warnock, Will Grigg, Y. Wildschut

Barnsley line-up

Adam Davies, M. Roberts, G. Williams, Alfie Mawson, Josh Scowen, C. Hourihane, Josh Brownhill, Adam Hammill, Lloyd Isgrove, Sam Winnall, Ashley Fletcher