Barnsley will look to record their tenth away league win of the season and build on Saturday’s derby success when they visit resurgent Northampton Town from 7.45pm on Tuesday.

The match was set to take place on January 11, when the Reds would have been looking for a fifth successive win, but it was called off due to bad weather.

Barnsley had only taken a point from six games but won 1-0 at Rotherham on Saturday. They are tenth, seven points off the top six with 13 games left.

The Cobblers are currently 17th, four places and four points clear of the relegation zone and ten behind the Reds.

Their manager Jon Brady, who took them up from League Two in 2023, resigned in December and was replaced by former Premier League midfielder Kevin Nolan.

Under Nolan, who had previously managed Leyton Orient and Notts County before working under David Moyes at West Ham, they have won three of their last four including a 2-1 success at home to Bristol Rovers on Saturday.

Northampton have scored 31 goals in 32 games, the third lowest total in the league.

Reds head coach Darrell Clarke said: “Kevin Nolan has come in and done a cracking job. They have picked right up and we know it will be tough.

“They will be well-organised and well-drilled, put a lot of balls in your box. They have a long throw both sides and they ask a lot of questions so we have to defend very very well then get control of the ball when we can and hurt them in their half.

“Any game at this level is tough and they are on good form but hopefully we go there with a little bit of confidence after Saturday’s result and we’re looking forward to it.”

Barnsley had lost three away games in a row but the win in Rotherham was their ninth on the road in the league this season - with no club in the division winning more.

Clarke said: “We slipped up a little bit recently away from home. But it was good to get the ninth away win and we will try to get into double figures on Tuesday night.

“We have got some good away games coming up and we will keep trying to win as many as we can. Then it’s the home form that we have to turn around as well and that can start again Saturday (against Lincoln).”

The Cobblers have two ex-Reds. Cameron McGeehan, part of the last Barnsley side to be promoted in 2019, is their top-scorer with eight goals from midfield while Will Hondermarck played 17 games for the Reds before moving to the Cobblers in January 2023.

Barnsley have won just seven of 27 games against Northampton, losing 14.

The Reds won 2-1 at Sixfields last season then conceded an injury-time leveller on the final day which would have cost them a place in the play-offs if not for other results going their way.

Barnsley then went 2-0 up in August through Max Watters and Adam Phillips but conceded twice in the last 20 minutes of a 2-2 draw.