Barnsley drew 1-1 at Hull City on Tuesday evening to double the gap between them and the relegation zone to two points.
Oliver McBurnie continued his excellent goal-scoring form with the opener midway through a first half which ended with Adam Jackson being stretchered off after ten minutes on the ground with a head injury.
Former England defender Michael Dawson levelled in the 73rd minute for Hull who were the better team in the second half while Barnsley clung on for a point which kept them one place above the drop zone in 21st.
Captain and right-back Andy Yiadom was dropped to the bench by Jose Morais who preferred Dimitri Cavare with the Frenchman playing his first game since being sent off against Fulham in January.
There was also a change at left-back where Zeki Fryers dropped out of the squad and Daniel Pinillos returned after illness. Hull fielded former Barnsley captain Angus MacDonald who left Oakwell in January.
Hull began on top but all their efforts were straight at Nick Townsend who dealt comfortably with an Adama Diomande header from close range and Noah Dicko's scuffed shot from the left of the box.
At the other end, Mamadou Thiam headed over after a cross by Cavare following a clever Joe Williams free-kick.
The Reds eventually took the lead on 21 minutes when, after Thiam's bursting run to the edge of the box, the ball was passed out to Potts on the right and his cross was headed into the top corner by McBurnie ten yards out.
Kieffer Moore then headed another chance straight at the goalkeeper before Hull's Seb Larsson curled a free-kick wide from 30 yards. Diomande then whizzed a shot across the face of goal after exchanging passes with Jon Toral.
Toral and Reds centre-back Jackson then clashed heads after a cross went into the Barnsley box. The home player got up within a couple of minutes and was substituted but Jackson was down for ten minutes before being stretchered off and replaced by Matty Pearson. The Reds confirmed at the break that Jackson was conscious and being treated.
MacDonald almost levelled against his former club on 58 minutes but his header from a tight angle from a Larsson corner was kept out by the feet of Townsend, who then made more simple save from a Bowen header while diving to his left.
Morais changed to a back five with Yiadom coming on for Thiam and playing right-back with Pinillos on the left while Cavare joined Liam Lindsay and Pearson as centre-backs.
The hosts still had chances with Dicko sending a weak 20-yarder straight at Townsend then Jackson Irvine headed over inside the box.
Barnsley almost doubled their lead when Pinillos had a free-kick beaten away then Potts volleyed over. But it was the hosts who scored next when a corner from the left was not cleared properly and former England defender Michael Dawson fired in a low shot.
Townsend saved well from another Larsson free-kick and jumped on the ball after several scrambles in the box, as the Reds saw out a draw.
AS IT HAPPENED 18:34pm: Hello and welcome to the Chronicle's coverage of Barnsley's match at fellow strugglers Hull City which is due to kick off at 7.45pm.
18:35pm: There were concerns earlier today that the match might be cancelled due to heavy snowfall but, while it is very cold, the pitch and surrounding areas are deemed safe.
18:37pm: The Reds jumped out of the relegation zone with a morale-boosting 2-0 success on Saturday at fellow strugglers Birmingham City, who slipped into the relegation zone below Barnsley. It was a first win as Oakwell head coach for Jose Morais, who will be in charge for his third game tonight.
18:42pm: Hull are one place and one point above the Reds in 21st place. This is a game in hand for both teams on most sides around them and Morais' men could jump up as many as three places to 18th with victory tonight.
18:45pm: Team: Townsend; Cavare, Lindsay, Jackson, Pinillos; Potts, Williams, Gardner; McBurnie, Moore, Thiam. Subs: Davies, Yiadom, Pearson, Concur, Bradshaw, Mahoney, Mallan.
18:46pm: Jose Morais has made two changes to the side that won at Birmingham City on Saturday, both at full-back. The shock news is that captain Andy Yiadom drops to the bench while Zeki Fryers is out of the squad. Coming in are Dimitri Cavare, who has not played since being sent off against Fulham in January, and Dani Pinillos, who returns after being ill at the weekend. Gary Gardner takes over as captain.
18:50pm: So that is a shock decision. Yiadom has been a consistent performer and a leader. Gardner is now the fourth captain of the season after Angus MacDonald – now at Hull and starting tonight – Adam Davies and Yiadom wore the armband.
18:54pm: Hull team: McGregor, Aina, MacDonald, Dawson, Clark; Irvine, Toral, Larsson; Diomande, Dicko, Bowen
18:54pm: Hull team: McGregor, Aina, MacDonald, Dawson, Clark; Irvine, Toral, Larsson; Diomande, Dicko, Bowen
18:55pm: Hull subs: Marshall, Hector, Grosicki, Keane, Campbell, Tomori, Stewart
18:56pm: Angus MacDonald has played in all five games for Hull since joining from Barnsley in January, after being captain for the first half of the season. He had signed for the Reds from non-league Torquay at the start of last season and was an almost ever-present in an excellent first Championship campaign then was given the captaincy last summer. But a combination of illness, injury, suspension and bad performances meant he only started ten of the Reds' 29 league games then joined the Tigers on the final day of the January transfer window for an undisclosed fee.
18:56pm: Paul Heckingbottom, who was then the Barnsley head coach, said that the 25-year-old was suffering from an iron deficiency which was restricting his ability to train, but MacDonald said he was fully fit on arrival in East Yorkshire. MacDonald played exactly 50 games for the Reds and wears that number on his shirt for the Tigers.
18:57pm: The KCOM Stadium has seen more goals than any other Championship ground this season with 54, while only leaders Wolves have scored more on their own turf than Hull who have scored 31.
19:01pm: Dimas Teixeira, Morais' assistant and a former Juventus and Portugal star, did yesterday's pre-match press conference. He said: "Hull is a team that came down from the Premier League and went through some difficulties but they have, without doubt, a solid team. We are aware of that and we are prepared."
19:05pm: Russian manager Leon Slutsky arrived at Hull in the summer after relegation from the Premier League but was sacked in December, leaving them 20th in the table. Nigel Adkins replaced him and has won three, drawn four and lost six in the Championship.
19:11pm: Hull have not lost in East Yorkshire for seven matches since November which have brought three wins and four draws. They are yet to concede a league goal at the KCOM in 2018 after following two goalless draws with a 1-0 win over fellow Yorkshire club Sheffield United on Friday evening.
19:13pm: This will be the 100th league meeting of the two Yorkshire clubs, who have beaten each other 40 times after Hull won 1-0 at Oakwell in October thanks to a late goal by England international Fraizer Campbell.
19:15pm: Barnsley lost 7-0 in Hull in 1964 but then won seven and drew one of the next eight visits to Boothferry Park. They have struggled since Hull moved to their new ground in 2002, losing five of the six league games there although the win saw them recover from their former striker Jon Parkin putting the Tigers 2-0 up after nine minutes to triumph 3-2 in 2006.
19:20pm: Joe Williams, the youngest of the Barnsley starters, has played the most games for the club out of all 11 with 32 while the second youngest, Oliver McBurnie, has scored the most Reds goals of the 11 despite only playing four games.
19:22pm: Hull have won their last four home league matches against Barnsley, most recently winning 1-0 in November 2012.
19:24pm: This is a chance for Barnsley to beat a fellow Yorkshire club for the first time this season. They have drawn twice with Sheffield Wednesday and lost at Sheffield United, in a game which saw MacDonald sent off
19:26pm: Barnsley's last game in Hull was in January 2013 when a Chris Dagnall goal earned David Flitcroft's Reds a 1-0 FA Cup victory.
19:29pm: Hull boss Nigel Adkins has won four games in a row against Barnsley with Scunthorpe and Southampton but has not beaten them in the last four with Reading and Sheffield United.
19:33pm: Barnsley's under 23s played an away game at Hull last night, at North Ferriby – taking the lead but losing 2-1.
19:43pm: The players are just walking out onto the pitch. The match is about to start
19:44pm: MATCH UNDERWAY
19:45pm: 1 Hull have the first attack down the right wing but Liam Lindsay cuts out a cross in his box
19:47pm: 2 Barnsley have had a good little period of possession but are yet to really get far into Hull's half
19:48pm: The snow is swirling around in the East Yorkshire air but not really settling. There is some that has been cleared away by the dugouts though
19:49pm: The away fans are braving the cold conditions in their hundreds (at least) and are in good voice
19:50pm: 6 Angus MacDonald seeing plenty of the ball at the moment as Hull pass it around on halfway. Neither side getting forward that much
19:51pm: Barnsley are playing a 4-3-3 with McBurnie and Thiam on the wings, both of whom will have to defend as well like McBurnie just did on the edge of his box after Nigeria right-back Ola Aina scampered forward
19:53pm: 8 Hull take a short corner, McBurnie cuts it out then the next corner leads to the first chance of the game as Diomande heads a right-wing cross straight at Townsend
19:53pm: Diomande will feel he should have done better there and it was a simple catch for the keeper
19:54pm: Oli McBurnie's name is boomed out by the away fans as the young attacker has done plenty of impressive defensive work so far but has not had. the chance to power up that left wing on the attack
19:56pm: 12 Townsend gathers a low cross from the right. Hull have been slightly more threatening so far
19:57pm: 13 Comical moment as both Joe Williams and Dimitri Cavare fall over, but Barnsley retain possession
19:58pm: 14 Barnsley have their first chance of the match as Williams shapes to play a free-kick into the box but slides a pass down the right to Cavare whose cross is slightly behind Thiam and the header goes over from about ten yards
19:59pm: 15 Hull striker Noah Dicko bursts down the wing but his shot from just inside the box is weak and straight at Townsend
20:01pm: The snow seems to have stopped. Hull have had the only shots on target so far but they have all been straight at Nick Townsend
20:03pm: 19 Barnsley fans ask for a handball by their former captain MacDonald then the home supporters mock them by saying 'handball' for every touch
20:05pm: 21 Gary Gardner blazes over from 25 yards. He was talking yesterday about wanting to score his first Reds goal. He will have to do much better
20:06pm: 21 Hull 0, Barnsley 1. McBurnie
20:07pm: The striker powers in a fantastic header into the top right corner from a Potts cross following good work by Thiam
20:07pm: It is McBurnie's fourth goal in four starts for the Reds, a fantastic return for the on-loan striker
20:10pm: Hull will think that came against the run of play but Barnsley have shown them how to be clinical
20:10pm: Hull will think that came against the run of play but Barnsley have shown them how to be clinical
20:11pm: McBurnie has four goals in as many games. Could he catch eight-goal top-scorer Tom Bradshaw?
20:12pm: 27 Moore heads a free-lick straight at. the goalkeeper then, at the other end, Cavare comes up with a crucial clearing header from a right-wing cross
20:13pm: That goal by McBurnie was the first scored by an away side at this stadium in the league in 2018
20:14pm: 30 96-cap Swedish international Seb Larsson sends a 30-yard free-kick wide of the bottom right corner
20:15pm: 31 Hull are improving. Diomande exchanges passes with Toral in the Reds box then whizzes a low shot cross the face of goal
20:16pm: 32 Another Diomande effort is blazed high and wide on the half volley from 25 yards out
20:19pm: 34 Amusement around the KCOM as Thiam kicks nothing but air when attempting to shoot. To be fair to him, that was at the end of a superb run past several players
20:19pm: Thiam's name is sung in the away end. He has been so positive every time he has got the ball on the right, constantly powering inside and taking players on. One of those runs led to the goal
20:22pm: Seven minutes until the break here. Barnsley leading courtesy of a fine header by McBurnie
20:23pm: 39 McBurnie heads a long ball down on the edge of the box and Moore's low 25-yard lacks power and is straight at the goalkeeper
20:25pm: Hull's little spell of being top appears to have ended and Barnsley will be more than happy to take this scoreline into the break
20:26pm: Biggest cheer of the night from the home fans as a ball boy slips and trips his way through the snow gathered on the sidelines to collect the ball which had gone off the pitch
20:27pm: 41 A player from both sides is down after a clash of heads. It's Jackson for Barnsley
20:28pm: Strechers coming onto the pitch. Jon Toral has got up but Jackson is still down
20:29pm: This would be another blow for Jackson who has only just come back from injury. Matty Pearson is stripped and ready to come on
20:30pm: Meanwhile, there will be four minutes of added time. But Jackson is still lying on the pitch in the Reds box
20:33pm: Jackson has been down for about five minutes now. The Reds physio Craig Sedgewick is out there with lots of other staff and medical equipment surrounding them
20:37pm: Adam Jackson is stretchered off after ten minutes on the ground. Pearson on
20:38pm: Apparently there is a hospital close by and Jackson may need to be checked
20:39pm: Matty Pearson has done a decent job whenever he has been playing at centre-back so he will need to do so again
20:41pm: So that injury has marred what has been a decent half for the Reds, who lead through McBurnie's header
20:41pm: HALF-TIME: Hull 0, Barnsley 1.
20:44pm: That's the second Hull game in a row that Jackson has come off injured. This one is much more worrying that the leg injury he picked up in October
20:56pm: The teams are back out for the second half
20:56pm: SECOND HALF UNDERWAY
20:57pm: Barnsley will have been shaken by the harrowing injury to Adam Jackson, but they will also be encouraged by how they played in the first half
20:58pm: 47 Townsend punches away a deflected cross from the right and the ball is cleared
20:58pm: 47 Former Barnsley captain Angus MacDonald is booked much to the delight of the away fans
20:59pm: 48 Another booking for the hosts. This time Max Clark
21:02pm: 51 Liam Lindsay is the first Red booked after taking out Jarrod Bowen. That's three yellows in three minutes after none in the first 48
21:03pm: 52 Seb Larsson fires a menacing free-kick into the box from the right wing but it goes through everyone and out for a goal kick
21:04pm: 53 Fantastic sliding tackle by Lindsay, who risked a penalty and red card after being booked, on Dicko in the box when he looks likely to shoot
21:05pm: Barnsley keep scrambling clear corners for Hull, who have had three in a row
21:07pm: Approaching the hour mark here. Barnsley are hoping to hold onto this lead and get what would be a second massive away win against a relegation rival in four days
21:09pm: 58 Angus MacDonald almost levels against his former club as he meets right-wing corner at the back post at a high angle but still forces at good save from Nick Townsend who uses his legs
21:11pm: An hour has gone now at the KCOM. Hull have shaded the second half but trail
21:12pm: 60 Townsend makes another save, this time diving to his right after a Clark cross picks out the unmarked Bowen who could get enough power on the header from ten yards
21:13pm: 61 Andy Yiadom replaces Mamadou Thiam for Barnsley and Kamil Grosicki is on for Diomande
21:15pm: Hull's substitute is a 55-cap Polish international who arrived from £8.5million and has six goals and four assists this season
21:15pm: 64 Dicko turns and shoots poorly from 20 yards and it is straight at Townsend who gathers
21:16pm: Barnsley have changed to a back five with Yiadom and Pinillos wing-backs while Cavare has joined Lindsay and Pearson as three centre-back
21:17pm: 66 Hull have had plenty of chances in this second half, the latest falling to Jackson Irvine who heads a fairly difficult opportunity over the bar from a left wing cross
21:17pm: The home side are finding it quite easy to bombard Barnsley's box with cross, especially from the right
21:19pm: 67 Kieffer Moore is taken out by home goalkeeper McGregor who had run out of his box, The home fans want red but it has yellow as there were plenty of covering defenders
21:20pm: 68 Pinillos' powerful free-kick is punched away then Potts volleys the rebound over
21:21pm: 70 Hull make their final change with Fraizer Campbell- who got the only goal at Oakwell this season – coming on for Dicko
21:22pm: 71 Cavare appears to be playing 'keeps uppies when he should blast clear near the right corner flag and is booked for giving away a free-kick
21:23pm: 72 The free-kick is whipped from a tight angle on the left straight at Townsend who catches easily
21:24pm: 73 Hull 1, Barnsley 1. Michael Dawson
21:26pm: A corner from the left is not cleared and the former England centre-back fires in low from ten yards out at the back post
21:26pm: It had been coming for Hull, who have been well on top in the second half
21:27pm: Now can the Reds hold on for at least a draw, or snatch a winner against the run of play?
21:27pm: George Moncur is ready to come on for the Reds but they are defending a free-kick first
21:28pm: 77 Larsson's free-kick looks destined for the top left corner but Townsend pushes it away
21:29pm: 75 George Moncur on for McBurnie
21:30pm: It's a bit surprising that Barnsley's main goal threat has come off. Moncur is now on the left wing in a 5-4-1
21:33pm: Less than ten minutes to play and it's all Hull. Cavare just made a good tackle to end an attack in the box
21:35pm: 84 Barnsley are really suffering from giving away free-kicks in perfect range for Larsson to swing in dangerous crosses. The latest one drops in the six yards box but Townsend pounces on it
21:36pm: Into the final five minutes now. Barnsley look like they would definitely take a draw here
21:37pm: The attendance is 14,005. Roughly 1,000 Reds fans
21:38pm: 86 Fans appeal for a foul by MacDonald on Moore on edge of Reds box but referee does not give what would have been a soft penalty
21:38pm: 88 Hull are pumping balls into the Reds box but Barnsley are defending manfully and most of them are ending up with Nick Townsend who is then diving on the ball to waste a bit of time
21:41pm: Into the 90th minute now. Still Hull are camped in the Reds half
21:42pm: 90+1 Bowen skips past Pinillos into the box from the left but his shot from a tight angle hits Townsend's legs and bounces away
21:43pm: 90+2 Yiadom wins a crucial free-kick and breather just outside the Reds box. Nearly over now
21:44pm: 90+3 Another scramble after another free-kick but yet again Townsend dives on the ball
21:45pm: Barnsley fans cheer a ball boy falling over in front of them. Will they cheer a draw in a few seconds?
21:46pm: FULL-TIME: Hull City 1, Barnsley 1.
