Beware Premership quality, says Reds boss « Previous « PreviousNext » Next » View GalleryBy Simon Meeks Barnsley BARNSLEY boss Simon Davey will warn his players to beware of Stoke's Premiership quality ahead of tonight's clash at the Britannia Stadium Davey drew attention to power striker and one time Oakwell target Mamady Sidibe but picked Lee Hendrie, on loan from Aston Villa, as Stoke's foremost dangerman. "He is a player of Premiership quality who will play behind the strikers and we have to make sure we look after him," Davey declared. "Stoke are a powerful team who are coming off a great result in their win at Derby. It will be a tough game but we're hopeful we can continue the form we showed against Southampton and Hull." Davey admitted a draw tomorrow night would be a decent result for Barnsley. "Because we're playing a team who are going for promotion and bearing in mind our away form, I'd take a point from the game but we'll be going for three." Davey shrugged off the fact that Hull's shock win over Birmingham dumped his team back to third from bottom. "I'm more interested in the number of points we have. Only one of the bottom 10 teams in the Championship won at the weekend, I'll take that. "We've gone into the bottom three and some people will say that's a disaster but it's not. We have to make the most of those other results by getting something at Stoke." Stoke are sitting ninth in the table just three points outside of the play-offs and at home have been in fine form. They may have drawn a few more than they would have liked at home, seven out of 17 ending in stalemates, but they have been beaten just twice at the Britannia Stadium and have the best home defence in the league with just nine conceded all season. Having lost just one of their last six league games and having conceded just twice in that run, Stoke are full of confidence. Barnsley head to Stoke boasting the worst away record in the division, having lost 13 of their 17 matches away from Oakwell this season. Barnsley ended a three game losing run when thrashing Hull 3-0 at Oakwell on Tuesday night, but in their last four matches they have conceded 10 goals. Davey said he saw a turning point after Barnsley's 3-0 defeat by Colchester at Oakwell. "There is a belief among the players that we're going to stay up," he said.
