{"id":422123,"date":"2025-09-13T22:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422123\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T22:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:02:37","slug":"bristol-rovers-2-1-barrow-bbc-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422123\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Rovers 2-1 Barrow &#8211; BBC Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bristol Rovers made it four League Two wins in a row as they saw off Barrow 2-1 at the Memorial Stadium.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All the damage was done in the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a slow start, Josh McEachran&#8217;s deep cross-cum-shot floated into the top corner of Wyll Stanway&#8217;s goal from wide on Rovers&#8217; left after 16 minutes, following a Joel Senior corner being cleared back out to the Gas midfielder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the first shot on target in the match and a first goal for the club \u2013 and since 2018 \u2013 for McEachran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barrow were hampered by Charlie Raglan going off with an injury after 19 minutes as Connor Mahoney took his place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the lead was doubled just before the half-hour mark when Promise Omochere won an aerial duel to meet Jack Sparkes&#8217; cross at the far post, with the ball dropping for Fabrizio Cavegn to sweep in from close range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Substitute Mahoney reduced the deficit after 69 minutes, with Rovers too slow to stop Elliot Newby crossing, as he steered a header into the corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was not enough as the hosts held on for maximum points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Match report supplied by PA Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Rovers made it four League Two wins in a row as they saw off Barrow 2-1 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-422123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115199249147884571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}