Barnet boss Martin Allen says the Bees are playing for their places after admitting a number of players have not earned the right to face Wolverhampton Wanderers in the League Cup on Tuesday night.

The Bees make the trip to Molineux on Tuesday evening (kick-off 7.45pm) looking to pull off a cup shock by overturning Kenny Jackett’s side, who are currently 17th in the second tier after four games.

Speaking to the club website, Allen said: “We’ll make a lot of changes to the team after Saturday’s performance, which I thought was pretty disappointing.

“A couple of people need resting because of injury and a lot of people won’t be playing because I don’t think they played well enough.

“They didn’t earn the right to play in this game for us against Wolves tomorrow.

“Not all the players are fit, but I think those that are should be ready after Saturday’s disappointment.

“We didn’t do ourselves justice.”

Allen continued: “In some of the other games that we haven’t managed to win, I’ve always been very happy with the performance.

“On Saturday I wasn’t happy with the performance. I hated the result, and I thought it was a very disappointing afternoon for all of us.

“It was difficult to watch it, and I can empathise with our supporters that made the trip down there.

“What I would say is that we’ve played five games, and of those five matches that’s the first time where we haven’t performed well and done ourselves justice.

“In all the other games, even if we haven’t won them we’ve had a right go and shown a real Barnet spirit.

“That’s what I’ll be looking for tomorrow night, and now players will be playing for their places.”