Sheffield Wednesday beat Barnsley 2-1 in the South Yorkshire derby at Hillsborough on Saturday despite having a man sent off and missing a penalty.
The Owls took the lead totally against the run of play on 62 minutes when Gary Madine tapped in Lewis Buxton's cross. This came minutes after home goalkeeper Chris Kirkland had made a fantastic save to keep out a wonderful 25-yard strike from Reuben Noble-Lazarus as Barnsley created the better chances and played the better football.
But Wednesday added to their lead when defender Reda Johnson headed in Buxton's free-kick to make it 2-0. They should have killed the game off when Bobby Hassell was judged to have handled the ball inside the box but Madine fired the penalty wide.
Buxton was then sent off when he received a second yellow card for charging out too early to block a free-kick. Barnsley pulled one back in injury time through a fine Jacob Mellis strike but the ten man hosts held on to win.
The defeat sent the Reds back into the bottom three as fellow strugglers Wolves, Peterborough, Ipswich and Charlton all won. Barnsley are now second bottom, a point from safety.
Barnsley boss David Flitcroft said: "I am disappointed by the manner in which we conceded the goals. We knew Wednesday were going to put a lot of balls into our box but we didn't deal with that on too occasions.
"We just need to move on to the Leicester game on Monday."
