Gillingham 2 Barrow 0: Manager Mark Bonner’s reaction after League 2 victory at Priestfield

Average was enough for Gillingham on Saturday as manager Mark Bonner admitted they could have done more.

The Gills won 2-0 against Barrow, with goals either half from Jayden Clarke and Robbie McKenzie, but Bonner felt they could have made things easier for themselves,

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“I just thought the game was average,” said the Gills boss. “I thought we were pretty average as well.

“It was enough to win but if we want to stay where we are and we want to keep being a team that wins, we can do better than that, no question about it.

“I think everybody would know, and our players definitely know, there's more in us than that.

“We didn't play enough. We didn't pass the ball well enough. We created our own pressure on our goal in certain situations.

“I wasn't (pleased with the performance) but it's a good result. I just thought the level of the game was poor.

“I'm really happy that we've got a result and kept a clean sheet but the good thing is that you can do that on days where you're maybe not at your best.

“I think the game was quite an uncomfortable game and it didn't need to be. It was an opportunity for us to be much more dominant with the ball and we've given up some really sloppy moments.

“It became a really open, transitional game in the first half and we didn't want it to look like that. It was so stretched. We've ended up running much bigger distances in the heat than we needed to.”

The Gills went into the break a goal ahead after McKenzie’s defence-splitting pass fed Clarke and he scored with a composed finish.

“It was a really good move,” said the manager.

“I was happy with that. We just didn't create enough pressure, to be honest, in the first half and we probably needed to go on and be better