Huddersfield Town 1, Barnsley 3

May 16 2006 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

TOWN'S Cardiff dream was cruelly shattered in a truly agonising second-half display.

They were hurt by a `soft' penalty for Paul Hayes, stunned by a set-piece header from Paul Reid and then flattened by a follow-up from Danny Nardiello.

Those goals on 57, 70 and 77 minutes were no more than Barnsley deserved for dominating the closing 35 minutes in response to a 65th-minute equaliser from Jon Worthington.

His first goal since February - the ball was actually forced over the line by Barnsley No3 Paul Heckingbottom - restored Town's aggregate lead and sent the Galpharm into wild celebration in anticipation of a second play-off final in three years.

It was not to be.

Peter Jackson's side, solid enough in the first period, never hit the heights of their first-leg performance at Oakwell (when Gary Taylor-Fletcher gave them a 1-0 win) and finished second-best.

They paid the price, in fact, for not turning that Oakwell advantage into more goals because clear-cut chances last night were few and far between.