Barnet sealed a first win in eight games when goals from Mauro Vilhete and John Akinde sealed a 2-0 win at Wycombe.

Manager Martin Allen promised to mix things up for this fixture and he was true to his word with six changes to his starting line-up.

Tom Champion was recalled from his loan spell at Lincoln to bolster the midfield which featured Alie Sesay, making his first league start of the season; the pair shielded the back four.

Keeper Josh Vickers was also preferred to Jamie Stephens and Gavin Hoyte returned at right-back after a long period out with a knee injury.

Top-scorer John Akinde did not have a traditional strike-partner, rather Curtis Weston was asked to join the forward at every opportunity from his midfield berth in a 4-4-1-1 formation.

Wycombe started the brighter with the lively Paris Cowan-Hall causing concern with his pace and the forward went close with a deft header in the 5th minute.

The Bees had another narrow escape when the referee halted a Wycombe attack by awarding a free-kick rather than allowing play to continue when Adebayo Akinfenwa headed the ball into the Barnet net.

The decision infuriated Wycombe although at the whistle the Barnet defence had clearly relaxed their guard, safe in the knowledge that a decision had been made a fraction earlier.

After surviving these initial scares the visitors visibly grew in confidence and began to take the game to Wycombe with Sesay having an effort well saved and Weston just failing to capitalise on Akinde’s flick into his path.

The game was goalless at half time and from the start of the second period Barnet looked sound in defence and posed a danger when going forward.

Two minutes after the break Akinde had a good opportunity when he was set-up by Weston but his effort was smothered by the Wycombe defence.

Anthony Stewart then hit a fierce shot straight at Vickers from the edge of the penalty area which the Barnet keeper did well to hold at the first attempt.

The Bees went ahead in the 66th minute with a well-crafted goal. Akinde took control on the left and he lobbed the ball into the path of Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro who in turn found Mauro Vilhete.

The versatile Bee then slipped the ball under the advancing Jamal Blackman in front of the travelling Barnet supporters.

Akpa Akpro then nearly extended Barnet’s lead with an audacious attempt from inside his own half when he spotted that Blackman had strayed outside of his penalty area, the ball went narrowly wide as Blackman scampered back in panic.

Barnet came under a degree of pressure as Wycombe sought a leveller but the defence, superbly marshalled by skipper Michael Nelson, was in no mood to let the lead slip.

In time added on Akinde latched onto a long pass from Champion and after out-running and out-muscling a Wycombe defender he calmly side-stepped Blackman to find the back of the net. This was Akinde’s ninth league goal of the campaign.

The Bees were almost unrecognisable from the side that had meekly capitulated to Exeter last week and they can now look forward to the re-arranged fixture against Newport County on Tuesday night.

Barnet: Vickers, Hoyte, N'Gala, Nelson, Muggleton, Vilhete, Sesay, Champion, Gambin (Akpa-Akpro 56), Weston (H Taylor 80), Akinde (Kyei 90+6).

Unused: Stephens, Dembele, Watson, Amaluzor.