Previews by Alan Parry: Setting the stage for Barnsley’s arrival

Referee Darren Drysdale, who also turned down Wanderers’ two penalty requests, sent goalkeeper Max Stryjek off, leaving Wycombe supporters furious.
Following “serious foul play,” Stryjek received an absurdly punitive three-match suspension.
When the Chairboys host Barnsley at Adams Park on Saturday, March 2, they will play a team that is also vying for promotion.
When the teams played in November of last year in Yorkshire, Barnsley prevailed 1-0 because of a contentious goal that was scored in stoppage time, putting Drysdale and Stryjek back in the public eye.
The Wycombe ‘keeper was attempting to pass the time with the score at 0-0 when Barnsley attacker Sam Cosgrove shoved him over and dropped the ball, which Cosgrove then tapped into an empty net.
Stryek made a careless play, but Drysdale let the “goal” to stand because most fans thought there would be a free kick given for a foul.
Later, Wanderers disclosed that PGMOL, the organization in charge of referees, informed the club that it ought to have been forbidden.
It was Barnsley’s fifth success in the previous six encounters between the two teams, with the Chairboys’ 3-0 triumph away in August 2022 serving as the sole exception.
Dom Gape and Nick Freeman, who are both currently with other clubs, scored two outstanding long-range goals that made the game memorable.
Barnsley has only lost once in five trips to Adams Park, that being a 1-0 victory for Wanderers in December 2018. Barnsley has won six of the previous eleven matches.