After their promotion from League One this season, you can bet that most Barnsley fans will have been content with survival come May.

However, their opening day performance may have raised expectations further as the Tykes saw off recently-relegated Fulham at Oakwell.

At a glance it would have been tricky to tell which of these sides had recently played in the Premier League, with Luke Thomas giving Daniel Stendel's side a deserved lead in the first-half.

And that is the way it stayed, with Barnsley continuing to press but more importantly, stay strong at the back.

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With both Liam Lindsay and Ethan Pinnock leaving in the summer after forming an impressive partnership last season, it fell to Mads Juel Andersen and Bambo Diaby to step-up.

And they seriously did that, forming what already looks like a very brilliant pairing.

On Monday, Diaby shared his thoughts on the match on Twitter and was inundated with support soon after...