All the interviews ahead of Port Vale V Barnsley

As Barnsley look ahead to a midweek trip to Port Vale on Tuesday, we look cover the key areas up for discussion ahead of the game.

Another great backing by the Red Army.

Of the allocated 1030 tickets on offer to Reds fans, currently over 600 have been snapped up and will make the trip to Port Vale on Valentines Day. The hosts have offered home and away season ticket holders the chance to take a loved one to the game for free given the game lands on Valentines Day.

Reds fans have clocked up some mileage recently travelling midweek to Exeter (only for it to be called off a few hours prior to kick off) and long trips to Oxford in midweek and Portsmouth. On Saturday, there`s more miles to be clocked with a trip to Michael Duff`s old side Cheltenham Town.

Jordan Williams looks ahead to the challenge faced by Port Vale

Jordan Williams was named in both the EFL team of the week and the League One team of the week after his goal scoring exploits at the weekend against Cambridge United.

Speaking to Barnsley FC website the defender said:

“It’s another tough game. We’re going there to try and win the game; the boys are confident and in a good vein of form, so we’ll go to try and win.”

On the threat posed by Port Vale.

“They’re a team that are organised and do the basics well. It’s going to be a scrap, and we’re going to have to live up to that and scrap with them to get the three points.”

Williams opened up about his goal tally target for the season:

“That’s one thing I wanted to progress on this year, goal contributions – if that’s an assist or a goal for myself, and I think I’m doing well on that at the moment.”

“It’s good to contribute and score goals, but I think the main thing on Saturday was getting the three points for the team.”

Vale manager Darrell Clarke takes responsibility for his sides defeat at the weekend.

Vale lost 3-2 away at Shrewsbury Town at the weekend and Vale manager Darrell Clarke took full responsibility for his sides defeat. Speaking to the Vale website Clarke said:

“I’ll take the blame, I picked a technical team, we started the game on the front foot and scored a very good goal but we were weak at set-pieces and that is what cost us the game – three set pieces.”

“We orchestrated our own downfall. It is not that the players hadn’t been warned about it, they’d scored eight from their last 13 goals from set-plays so it wasn’t like we hadn’t worked on it, but you have to do the fine arts and basics of the game right and we didn’t do that.”

Hopefully on Tuesday night the likes of Mads Andersen and Bobby Thomas can capitalise on Port Vale`s poor defending from set pieces.

The game kicks off at 7.45pm.

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