Barnsley recorded a third successive league win and their first clean sheet since September as they cruised to a 3-0 win at Shrewsbury Town on Saturday.
Sam Winnall scored twice against his former club to put the Reds 2-0 up midway through the first half then Adam Davies made sure that remained the score at the break with an excellent penalty save.
Alfie Mawson got a third midway through the second half to secure the win that moved Barnsley up to 17th in League One, four points clear of the relegation zone into which they dumped Shrewsbury who are managed by their former caretaker Micky Mellon.
Head coach Lee Johnson made three changes to the side that drew at home to Fleetwood the previous Saturday. Reece Wabara, who has since left the club after his contract ended, was replaced at right-back by teenager James Bree while new signing Josh Brownhill came in for his debut at the expense of the benched Brad Abbott. Marley Watkins returned from injury to replace Ryan Williams who dropped to the bench.
Barnsley almost took the lead in the 11th minute when Junior Brown headed off his line to keep out a Sam Winnall header from Conor Hourihane's corner.
Winnall got the opener five minutes later when the Shrewsbury defence allowed a goal kick by Davies to go all the way through to the striker who finished his one-on-one chance impressively from just inside the box.
Winnall then made it two goals in five minutes when he picked up the ball in the middle of the home side's half, beat a defender and fired into the bottom right corner from 25 yards.
The Reds had the ball in the back of the net again on 26 minutes but the linesman ruled Watkins was just offside after he went clean through to score after a superb move involving Bree and Winnall.
Shrewsbury were then awarded a 42-minute penalty after Bree committed a foul on Andy Mangan who got up to take the spot-kick. Davies leapt to his right to brilliantly keep the effort out.
Davies made an equally good stop three minutes later when he tipped over Nathaniel Knight-Percival's close range header on the stroke of half-time.
Shrewsbury made three substitutes at the interval and were more competitive but the Reds defended well then got their third from the first real chance of the second half. Mawson saw his header from a corner blocked on the line but was there to volley in the rebound from very close range for 3-0 on 72 minutes.
Adam Hammill and substitute Ashley Fletcher came close to extending Barnsley's lead but they settled for the 3-0 victory.
