Barnsley secured a 4-2 success at Burton Albion on Tuesday, capped by sensational match-winning long-ranger by Joe Williams.

Lloyd Isgrove opened the scoring midway through the first half then there was a flurry of three goals in the last seven minutes of the first half as Burton levelled, then Brad Potts put Barnsley back in front almost instantly, only for the hosts to equalise seconds before the interval. Williams then netted his first career goal with a magnificent 30-yard strike into the top right corner before Harvey Barnes secured the win late one.

The Reds are 19th, with 16 points from 14 matches which puts them six points clear of the relegation zone.

Paul Heckingbottom made four changes from the side that drew 1-1 at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday and changed back from a 4-4-2 to a 4-1-4-1. Jason McCarthy, Adam Hammill, Mamadou Thiam and Tom Bradshaw dropped out of the 11 to be replaced by Zeki Fryers, Lloyd Isgrove, Brad Potts and Ike Ugbo.

Very little had happened when Isgrove, making his first start since signing permanently for the Reds in the summer opened the scoring on 21 minutes by firing into the top left corner from 12 yards out after exchanging passes with Potts on the edge of the area. It was two goals in successive Barnsley starts for the Wales winger but he had had to wait 17 months since his last one which came in the League One play-off final at Wembley while on loan to Southampton. 

The hosts then looked rattled with Potts firing over from the edge of the area after a penalty area scramble following good work on the right by Andy Yiadom. Burton's Lucas Akins then had their first opportunity but fired over from the left side of the box.

The home side made it 1-1 on 38 minutes when Jake Buxton's excellent cross from the right was headed in at the back post by Matty Lund. But Albion were level for just two minutes as Ugbo beat a home defender in the air to go clean through on goal and ran 30 yards into the box before his shot was saved but Potts tapped in the rebound.

But there was still time for the Brewers to level again in first half injury-time with an individual effort from Lloyd Dyer who drove in from the right wing before beating Adam Davies.

Burton almost took the lead seven minutes after the interval when Davies tipped over Buxton's header from a Lund corner. There followed another long period of inactivity before Williams chested the ball down 30 yards out and smashed his left-footed wondergoal into the top right corner via the underside of the bar.

Davies then rushed off his line to make a good block after Sean Scannell was put through one-on-one by Lund on a swift counter-attack. Barnsley almost got a fourth when Isgrove brilliantly skipped past two home players then Bradshaw played in his fellow substitute George Moncur who was denied by Conor Ripley one-on-one.

It was 4-2 a minute later when Barnes cut in from the left and fired a fine shot past Ripley to make sure of the points.