Barrow blanks Gloucester with two second-half goals on Tuesday
GLOUCESTER, England (Interstat) — Barrow scored twice after halftime and defeated home side Gloucester 2-0 on Tuesday in a competition match. Thierry Latty-Fairweather scored in the 64th minute, and Arian Allen added the second in the fourth minute of stoppage time. Gloucester could not answer before the final whistle, and Barrow completed the win with a clean sheet. The result gave Barrow a two-goal victory on the road and left Gloucester without a goal. Barrow’s goals came in the second half after a scoreless first half, and Gloucester never found an equalizer.
The match stayed scoreless until Latty-Fairweather’s 64th-minute strike. Barrow held the lead through the closing stages and doubled it when Allen scored deep in stoppage time. Latty-Fairweather and Allen each recorded a goal while playing 90 minutes, and their goals accounted for all the scoring. Barrow’s defense kept Gloucester off the scoreboard for the full match. Barrow managed the final minutes with the lead and added the second goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time.
The result moved Barrow’s competition record to 1-0-1 and its overall record to 7-4-4. Gloucester is now 1-1-1 in the competition and 3-2-5 across all competitions. Barrow secured its first competition win after a draw in its prior competition match, while Gloucester took its first competition loss after a win and a draw. Barrow’s competition mark includes one win and one draw, while Gloucester’s competition mark includes one win, one loss and one draw. The teams had met earlier this season and played to a scoreless draw, and the second meeting followed a different path once Barrow broke through after halftime. Gloucester had also opened its competition schedule with a win and a draw before the loss.
Barrow entered the match after that scoreless draw with Gloucester and had recently posted wins over Tamworth 2-1, Wealdstone 2-1, Scunthorpe 3-0, Southend 4-2, Aldershot 1-0 and Sutton United 3-0. Barrow also had a 2-2 draw with Worthing, a 1-1 draw with Kidderminster and a 1-0 loss to Solihull earlier in its overall schedule. Those results contributed to Barrow’s 7-4-4 overall mark. Gloucester, meanwhile, had recent scoreless draws with Bath and Taunton, a 3-1 win over Hanworth, a scoreless draw with Chichester, a 2-1 win over Mulbarton Wanderers, a 1-1 draw with Plymouth Parkway, a 4-0 win over Stafford and a 5-2 loss to Malvern Town.
Gloucester’s overall record of 3-2-5 includes those results and reflects a season with more draws than wins or losses. The home side had also played Barrow to a scoreless draw earlier in the season, a match that kept both teams level in the head-to-head series before Tuesday. Gloucester could not carry that defensive record into the second meeting, as Barrow found the breakthrough in the second half and added another goal in stoppage time. The loss left Gloucester with one win, one loss and one draw in the competition.
Barrow’s upcoming schedule includes a home match against Forest GR, trips to FC Halifax, Gateshead, Boston Utd and Woking, and home matches against Eastleigh, Carlisle, Boreham and Tamworth. Gloucester is scheduled to visit Frome next. Those fixtures will follow a match in which Barrow converted its scoring chances after halftime and Gloucester failed to score. Barrow’s overall record now stands at seven wins, four losses and four draws, while Gloucester’s overall mark is three wins, two losses and five draws.
Interstat’s game simulator had projected a 1-1 final score before the match. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Gloucester with a 69.4 percent probability to win. Barrow had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -0.75. The total score of 2 went over the over/under line of 2.5.