' Mick McCarthy / Valerien Ismael '

Mick McCarthy:

I don’t know (whether it means more to have Barnsley first game). Got Millwall next and then Bristol City was where TC (Terry Connor) was. You can’t get more affinity with any other clubs, but we’ll do our best.

"Barnsley’s my hometown and means a lot to me but I’m focused on winning this game.

"It is (a big game). But you look at the Championship. You never look at any game and think it’ll be easy. We’ll have to get through it with a real togetherness.

"I think I can get a reaction out of them. The reaction that matters is the one on the pitch on Wednesday."






Valerien Ismael:

“It will be a fight; it will be about the set-pieces and it will be about the second balls. It will be about the desire to win the duels and win the game, so we have to prepare the guys.


“It will be a completely different game than against Norwich but we have shown in the past that we can compete at this level, we are more adaptable and we will be ready for the fight.

“We are on the right way after Norwich. We created a lot of chances and found a way to work with the guys to put pressure on the box and to create more chances to score more goals.”