Evans\u2019 relegation worries deepened as Barnet edged ahead after 45 minutes thanks to Adam Senior\u2019s close-range finish.<\/p>\n
Gas goalkeeper Luke Southwood saved Mark Shelton\u2019s penalty, but Ryan Glover doubled the lead in the 86th minute when he thumped home a loose ball.<\/p>\n
Evans revealed club owner Hussain AlSaeed had promised to make funds available to strengthen his squad after a seventh consecutive home defeat left the Gas hovering just one point above the foot of the Sky Bet League Two table.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that 2025 has been a terrible year for every Gas fan, but 2026 will be a lot better and we\u2019ll win football matches going forward,\u201d Evans said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had a very positive meeting today with the owner and our director of football Ricky Martin.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe owner is no different to any of us, he\u2019s spent his money and he\u2019ll be more disappointed than anyone else in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not getting value for money so we\u2019ve got to make sure that we get that in the January window.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the owner has made more funds available to myself and Ricky to go to the market.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019ve been phoning and meeting players and talking to agents non-stop since I\u2019ve come in so we will fix this in January window for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evans, who succeeded the sacked Darrell Clarke earlier this month with the club looking for a first league win since September, continued: \u201cOur mistakes are fixable, but it will be what we do in the January window that will be key.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe players are giving everything they\u2019ve got, absolutely, and they\u2019ll be tired boys when they wake up in the morning so I can\u2019t go in the dressing room and fault effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I can see one or two players hiding a little bit when you need them to be brave and strong.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unacceptable that we\u2019ve lost seven home league games in a row, but to do nothing about it would be unforgivable.<\/p>\n
Barnet manager Dean Brennan saluted his players.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of athleticism within the group. I told everyone to put a shift in for the team, put a shift in for the badge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey came at us from the start and I guess that\u2019s something you\u2019d expect from a side that were desperate for a positive result.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came here and did the job we wanted to do. We had to change systems several times and they did the same, but we just countered that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just thought we played on the front foot and asked a lot of questions to them defensively. We were a stronger team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evans\u2019 relegation worries deepened as Barnet edged ahead after 45 minutes thanks to Adam Senior\u2019s close-range finish. Gas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-661613","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\/115806382483975526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661613","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=661613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}