<div class="headline" id="ds-headline"><h1>Nardiello holds key to survival</h1></div> <div class="viewarticlepanel"><div class="multiimageon" id="MainMultiImage"><div id="MainImageDiv"></div><div id="ImageCaption">Prolific form: Daniel Nardiello has scored six goals in four games</div><div class="offinline" id="ThumbDiv"><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb">/</div><div class="thumb">/</div><div class="thumb2">/</div></div> <div class="offinline" id="Navigation"><div class="off" id="PreviousBlock1">« Previous </div><div class="off" id="PreviousBlock1Inactive">« Previous</div><div class="off" id="NextBlock1">Next » </div><div class="off" id="NextBlock1Inactive">Next »</div></div> <div class="off noprint" id="divGalleryLink">View Gallery</div></div></div><div class="byline" id="ds-byline">By Simon Meeks</div><div class="ds-firstpara" id="ds-firstpara">IT'S the one time that safety first can't bring security and everyone at Barnsley FC knows it.</div><div class="va-bodytext" id="va-bodytext">Barnsley need a win tomorrow, likewise Leicester City. Three points either way will lift the gloom of a relegation threat at Oakwell or the Walkers Stadium and erase the need to check on results elsewhere. Barnsley insist they will go into tomorrow's nail-biter meaning business ... goal-scoring business. The ace in the Barnsley pack is Daniel Nardiello. Last Saturday's two goals against Crystal Palace took his total to six in the last four games. The last time he had form like this, he was a kid with Manchester United. "Things are going really well, we're winning games and scoring goals; you can't complain," he said. "I've not had a run of scoring like this since youth level." And the goals he has got have mostly had a hallmark of quality - the 30-yard free-kick at Ipswich, then a clinical finish against Birmingham. The two goals at Southend included a header at a set-piece. Only the last two, against Crystal Palace, had an element of luck. Not least the controversial twice taken penalty in the second half. Nardiello appointed himself penalty-taker in that <div id="ds-mpu"></div>game. It is a job he will not quit even under the extreme pressure of tomorrow's match. Barnsley boss Simon Davey has yet to tie the 24-year-old striker to a new contract and, as the season reaches it's climax, there are already rumours circulating that Premiership teams Portsmouth and Manchester City have checked him out. It would be surprising if other clubs were not tracking him. He and Brian Howard are looking pretty much the biggest assets in Davey's squad who could be tempted to move on if relegation became reality. Midfielder Howard, like Nardiello, is out of contract in the summer and could leave Oakwell for a last time tomorrow on a match day with the club's Player of the Season trophy. He and defender Bobby Hassell are understood to be leading contenders in the supporters' poll. The winner will be declared at Oakwell before kick-off in tomorrow's main event.</div><div class="ds-modifieddate">Last Updated: 27 April 2007</div>
