Barrow 1-2 Bradford City

Last updated on 23 April 2024.From the section League Two48

Former Barrow striker Tyler Smith came back to haunt his old side with a late winner to ensure their quest to make the League Two play-offs goes down to the final day after a narrow 2-1 loss at home to Bradford.

The Bluebirds have endured a poor run at the worst part of the season with just one point from six.

Barrow goalkeeper Paul Farman produced a good stop to keep out Andy Cook in the 20th minute, while talented 20-year-old Bobby Pointon fired the Bantams ahead with a fine strike after 29 minutes.

Home forward Cole Stockton had an effort cleared off the line and their pressing told as Kian Spence levelled with a fine free-kick on the hour.

Pete Wild made four changes in the final 15 minutes in a bid for the home side to get a season-defining goal but Barrow substitute David Worrall could only fire straight at Sam Walker.

Instead it was the visitors who secured the three points as the hosts were left with a nervous wait.

Smith, who spent the first half of the 2018-19 season on loan at Barrow, came off the bench to score a stoppage-time winner from Cook's flick on.

Match report supplied by PA Media.

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Line-ups

Barrow

Formation 3-5-2

1FarmanBooked at 90mins
17Chester
24Feely
6Canavan
18StephensonBooked at 66minsSubstituted forWorrallat 76'minutes
8Spence
4CampbellSubstituted forWhitfieldat 76'minutes
15Gotts
11Newby
20AcquahSubstituted forTelfordat 82'minutes
23StocktonBooked at 32minsSubstituted forProctorat 76'minutes

Substitutes

7Worrall
9Proctor
12Lillis
16Foley
19Telford
34Whitfield

Bradford

Formation 3-4-2-1

1Walker
22OyegokeBooked at 54mins
5Platt
18Kelly
2Halliday
11GillieadSubstituted forOduorat 77'minutes
6Smallwood
36Wright
23PointonBooked at 50minsSubstituted forSmithat 83'minutesSubstituted forRichardsat 90+4'minutes
8KavanaghSubstituted forChapmanat 82'minutesBooked at 90minsSubstituted forTomkinsonat 90+4'minutes
9Cook

Substitutes

3Ridehalgh
12Oduor
13Doyle
14Smith
20Chapman
31Tomkinson
32Richards

Referee:: Ross Joyce
Attendance:: 4,527

Match Stats

Home TeamBarrowAway TeamBradford

Possession: Home42%; Away58%

Shots: Home9; Away9

Shots on Target: Home4; Away5

Corners: Home1; Away8

Fouls: Home15; Away13

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Match ends, Barrow 1, Bradford City 2.
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Full Time
Second Half ends, Barrow 1, Bradford City 2.

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Corner, Barrow. Conceded by Tyreik Wright.
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Foul by Ciarán Kelly (Bradford City).
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Robbie Gotts (Barrow) wins a free kick on the right wing.
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Attempt missed. Rory Feely (Barrow) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Robbie Gotts with a cross following a set piece situation.
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Foul by Clarke Oduor (Bradford City).
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Elliot Newby (Barrow) wins a free kick on the left wing.
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Offside, Bradford City. Andy Cook is caught offside.
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Attempt saved. Ben Whitfield (Barrow) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Niall Canavan with a headed pass.
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Substitution
Substitution, Bradford City. Lewis Richards replaces Tyler Smith.
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Substitution
Substitution, Bradford City. Jonathan Tomkinson replaces Harry Chapman.
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Booking
Paul Farman (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
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Booking
Harry Chapman (Bradford City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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Foul by Harry Chapman (Bradford City).
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Elliot Newby (Barrow) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Richard Smallwood (Bradford City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Foul by Dominic Telford (Barrow).
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Goal!
Goal! Barrow 1, Bradford City 2. Tyler Smith (Bradford City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andy Cook with a through ball.
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Corner, Bradford City. Conceded by James Chester.

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Comment posted by David Firth, at 22:25 23 Apr
Wow. Shades of 1996 for City - dare we hope 🤷‍♂️. Crawley massive favourites but great finish whatever happens !
Comment posted by valdos, at 22:23 23 Apr
Out of our hands but last day nerves have caused upsets before. Just do your bit Saturday lads. Alexander has done a good job since taking over, look forward to seeing him with his own players next season. Hopefully in league one.
Comment posted by Leaguefan, at 22:24 23 Apr
If results go the right way, City could be in the playoffs 😳
Unlikely and would never be thought of during the season. At one stage they looked to be making a determined effort for National League status. So……
Comment posted by Harrogate Bantam, at 22:39 23 Apr
Well done City, surely we can't do it! It will be some atmosphere at VP on Saturday if we do!
Reply posted by georgiasdad, at 13:00 24 Apr
georgiasdad replied:
Up The Chickens...
Comment posted by Paul, at 22:20 23 Apr
Well done to Morecambe for sneaking promotion.
Reply posted by John, at 22:23 23 Apr
John replied:
Amazing result
Comment posted by daw, at 22:35 23 Apr
Totally dominated the first half, it's the worst I have seen Barrow since coming back into the league.
Still a tall order for us but some good battling team performances of late.
Well played City.
Comment posted by Sven Gonad Darrikson, at 12:04 24 Apr
I'm amazed how much doom and gloom there seems to be amongst Barrow fans!
Only been in the league three years and pushing for promotion!
Every one of you should be behind the team spurring them on!
There are a lot of clubs that would love to be in your position!
Just enjoy the ride.
Reply posted by extralargeman, at 19:29 24 Apr
extralargeman replied:
You obviously weren’t at Holker street last night, over 4,000 crowd urging a poorly performing Barrow over the line.
Comment posted by know your rights, at 23:04 23 Apr
Never mind Barrow. Still all to play for.
Comment posted by stanley, at 23:03 23 Apr
Bradford have every possibility to make a play off after this game
Comment posted by Accy Stanley fan here, at 05:20 24 Apr
Best wishes Barrow against Mansfield! I hope you make the play-offs!
Comment posted by sceebuck, at 07:58 24 Apr
It's like watching school kids some times,(sorry kids). Even worse, it's like watching 11 strangers. You can see the attitude of some players is 'not my fault' !!!! There's only Farnham that shows any passion, if it wasn't for him we'd have been fighting relegation never mind trying for the play-offs. As somebody has already mentioned....Wild still doesn't seem to know his 1st eleven
Reply posted by sayitagainsam, at 13:28 24 Apr
sayitagainsam replied:
With 1 game to go still doesn`t know who to play
Comment posted by Boxinghagler1980, at 22:44 23 Apr
Let's hope city can make that last play off place.
Reply posted by ruc2123man, at 18:44 24 Apr
ruc2123man replied:
No chance
Comment posted by Sports fan, at 23:42 23 Apr
Barrows team seems mentally gone. Even if they make the playoffs just can’t see them winning at Wembley.

Crawley look to be in a similar place of poor form. Doncaster are flying though!

Hopefully the mighty Bantams can make the playoffs and it’ll be City v Donny in the final at Wembley!!
Comment posted by knicaMan1960, at 00:22 24 Apr
Leicester City fan here, dad from Barrow so Bluebird's my 2nd team. Come in guts please do not throw it away now ! . Fingers crossed for you last day home to Mansfield, come on Bluebirds !!!. Great night here at the King Power 5-0 & almost there !. Go Bluebird's ✌️
Comment posted by saldav, at 19:28 24 Apr
I’d love to see Barrow in the playoffs but I doubt we’d be successful in league one with the lack of supporters, therefore lack of income. I think we need a few reasonable seasons in league two and build some support to make promotion worthwhile. We suffered instant relegation in the sixties and nothing good came of that. Fingers crossed that we get to visit Wembley again though.
Reply posted by exiledyorkie, at 21:18 24 Apr
exiledyorkie replied:
Saldev.....your team have had a great season.......don't worry about next season.....just push for promotion. The 60's are ancient history.....not relevant. My team won't make the play-offs.....good luck
Comment posted by mark, at 22:22 23 Apr
I thought it was grrrrrreat😀
Comment posted by poo, at 22:20 23 Apr
Absolute garbage
Comment posted by sayitagainsam, at 00:04 24 Apr
Really poor from Barrow 6 wins in 23 games and you want a play-off place don`t deserve one and won`t get one, to many players on contract next season who shouldn`t be, Wild you are the manager and after 45games you still don`t know you best forward combination, football can change very quickly and Barrow could be at the other end of the table next season going by the last 23 games it`s been poor.
Reply posted by sceebuck, at 07:53 24 Apr
sceebuck replied:
Couldn't agree with you more.
Comment posted by terry munroe , at 10:21 24 Apr
hope the Bantams make the play-offs they will walk it -if not put a bet on them for next season
Comment posted by terry munroe , at 10:15 24 Apr
meanwhile Milly the man wild left behind is performing miracles at Halifax with no money
Reply posted by sayitagainsam, at 13:27 24 Apr
sayitagainsam replied:
All the very best tonight Terry in your play-off match would be great to welcome Halifax to Holker Street next season.

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Stockport	45	27	11	7	95	46	49	92
2	Mansfield	45	24	13	8	89	46	43	85
3	Wrexham	45	25	10	10	87	51	36	85

4	MK Dons	45	23	8	14	79	64	15	77
5	Doncaster	45	21	7	17	71	66	5	70
6	Crewe	45	19	13	13	68	64	4	70
7	Barrow	45	18	14	13	61	55	6	68

8	Crawley	45	20	7	18	71	67	4	67
9	Bradford	45	18	12	15	57	58	-1	66
10	Walsall	45	18	11	16	68	68	0	65
11	Gillingham	45	18	9	18	44	55	-11	63
12	Wimbledon	45	16	14	15	59	50	9	62
13	Harrogate	45	17	11	17	58	67	-9	62
14	Notts County	45	18	7	20	89	85	4	61
15	Tranmere	45	17	6	22	66	66	0	57
16	Morecambe	45	17	9	19	64	78	-14	57
17	Newport	45	16	7	22	61	72	-11	55
18	Accrington	45	15	9	21	59	70	-11	54
19	Swindon	45	14	11	20	74	80	-6	53
20	Salford	45	13	11	21	64	80	-16	50
21	Grimsby	45	11	16	18	57	72	-15	49
22	Colchester	45	11	11	23	58	79	-21	44

23	Sutton United	45	9	14	22	55	80	-25	41
24	Forest Green	45	10	9	26	43	78	-35	39

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Bradford

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