BARNSLEY will look for their sixth home win of the league season when they host second-bottom Cambridge United from 3pm.
The Reds have won five of 18 home league games this season and have the 20th best record in the division on their own turf.
Just the four teams currently in the relegation zone have fewer home points than Barnsley’s 21, while only Shrewsbury have conceded more on their own turf.
They were beaten 3-0 by Blackpool in their most recent home match, after which Darrell Clarke was sacked and replaced by Conor Hourihane.
They have five home games remaining, mostly against sides in the relegation fight or just above.
Hourihane said: “If you go on any streak, it snowballs and it (the home form) has snowballed into the matter everyone talks about.
“The pitch at Oakwell or away is very similar – green with white lines.
“What difference is there?
“We will stick to the gameplan whether we play at Barnsley, Mansfield or Old Trafford.”
Cambridge are currently second-bottom, 13 points off safety with nine games left.
They have won just seven league games so far this season, with only two away victories giving them the worst record on the road in the division.
Garry Monk, the former Barnsley defender, was sacked last month after a run of two wins in 20.
The Us brought back two of their former managers with Neil Harris taking over as head coach and Mark Bonner as director of football.
Harris won his first two matches but has lost the last four including a 1-0 home defeat in a derby against Peterborough on Saturday.
Hourihane told the Chronicle: “I am expecting a real battle from a team fighting for their lives.
“No game in this division is easy.
“We need to match them and, if we do, hopefully our quality will come out on the ball.”
He added: “I fully respect Neil Harris.
“They lost a big game in a derby last time out. They will be hurting from that and coming here with a mentality to do one over on us.”
Harris lost his first four meetings with Barnsley – including in the 2016 play-off final as Millwall boss when Reds captain Hourihane lifted the trophy – but has won the last five with the Lions and Cardiff City.
He spent three months as Cambridge manager, after replacing Bonner, but left for Millwall in February last year.
Cambridge have Hourihane’s former Barnsley midfield team-mate Paul Digby as well as another ex-Red Korey Smith who won promotion with the Barnsley head coach at Derby last season but is recovering from injury.
Reds midfielder Adam Phillips made his professional debut for Cambridge in 2018 during a brief loan spell from Norwich.
The two clubs have met 26 times with Barnsley winning 12 and losing six.
The Reds had won five in a row against Cambridge but were beaten 2-0 at home almost exactly a year ago – gifting the badly off-form visitors a bizarre opener when Mael de Gevigney passed past his goalkeeper Liam Roberts into the net.
Barnsley then drew 1-1 at Cambridge in November, with Stephen Humphrys levelling following a magnificent run from within his own half.
