Barnet lost their last home game of the season by conceding a goal in the 95th minute in a seven-goal thriller at The Hive against Yeovil Town, who staged a remarkable comeback after being 3-1 down to win 4-3.

The Bees took the field in the all-black strip they will be wearing next season, the new look replacing the black and amber hooped shirt they had sported this campaign.

Barnet manager Martin Allen made three changes from the side that had earned a creditable draw at Mansfield the previous weekend with Michael Nelson, Luke Gambin and Harry Taylor selected ahead of Bondz N’Gala, Sam Muggleton and Mark Randall in a 4-4-2 formation. The in-form Michael Gash and the prolific John Akinde were the front pairing.

With both outfits free from relegation worries or anxiously seeking a play-off spot the game was anything but a cat and mouse affair with both sides ploughing forward at every opportunity with scant regard for the defensive aspects of the game.

The game was slow to ignite but once one goal went in it was a signal for the floodgates to open.

Gash gave the Bees a lead mid-way through the first half when he volleyed home past Artur Krysiak from close range following a delivery from the left by Akinde that was played back into the box by James Pearson.

The visitors went close to levelling within minutes when a mis-directed free-kick by Matty Dolan rattled the Barnet crossbar and Mark Laird headed over when well placed, but it was the Bees who went into the interval one goal to the good.

In the opening minutes of the second half Yeovil failed to take advantage of any of the three reasonable opportunities they had created to equalise.

Yet within five minutes of the restart the Bees went two up with a goal from the penalty spot. Gash and Akinde again combined well only for the Barnet number nine to be crudely impeded by Alex Lacey before the top scorer picked himself up and calmly sent the keeper Krysiak the wrong way from 12 yards.

Barnet did not enjoy this two-goal advantage for long as within three minutes Dolan hit a crisp volley from 20 yards into the corner of the net to bring the Glovers back into the game.

Moments later Barnet re-established their two-goal lead after Akinde, with his 21st league goal of the season, had won an aerial duel with the Yeovil keeper to a lofted pass from Andy Yiadom and surely now the Bees would see the game out.

The tide began to turn in Yeovil’s favour in the 63rd minute when an unmarked and unchallenged Nathan Smith headed home a corner and in the 76th minute the Glovers were level when a well-directed low shot into the corner by Francois Zoko brought the travelling fans to their feet.

The momentum was certainly now with the visitors, although in time added on Akinde seemed to have scored the winner for the Bees only for his effort to be disallowed for an infringement.

Yeovil defender Lacey would then head a Sam Muggleton long throw on his own crossbar to concede a corner in the dying embers of the match.

From the resulting corner keeper Krysiak collected the delivery and his intelligent throw-out set the visitors on a last-gasp breakaway.

A quick passing moment lead to Harry Cornick firing into the Barnet net to give Yeovil a victory that had looked impossible to contemplate until the very later stages of the match.

Barnet had played a more attacking, expansive game than normal and whilst they had scored three goals there must be more than a modicum of concern that this approach made them look defensively vulnerable.

Barnet’s last game of the season is next Saturday  when they visit Crawley Town.

Barnet: Stephens, Pearson (Shomotun 36, Champion 72), Nelson, Dembele, Johnson, Yiadom, Togwell, Taylor (Muggleton 80), Gambin, Akinde, Gash. Subs not used: N'Gala, Batt, McKenzie-Lyle, Sesay.

Yeovil Town: Krysiak, Roberts, Lacey, Smith, Dickson (Cornick 71), Shephard, Laird, Walsh, Dolan, Lita (Campbell 60), Zoko. Subs not used: Bird, Jeffers, Weale, Compton.