Bees boss: It's a relief to win again (From Times Series)

Bees boss: It's a relief to win again

10:57am Monday 8th February 2010 in

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Barnet 3 Aldershot 0 . . .

"It's been a long time coming."

Barnet boss Ian Hendon admitted he was a relieved man after the Bees finally won a game of football.

Their last victory was back in early November, but any neutral who saw this match on Saturday would probably not have known that.

Barnet certainly never looked like a team low on confidence and they strolled to victory.

Hendon said: "I thought this performance was coming. It was nice to get three goals and a bonus to keep a clean sheet. We put some great balls into the box and the difference on Saturday was that we had someone on the end of them."

He added: "We haven't been playing that badly, but we just haven't been getting the rub of the green. It all came together on Saturday."

Aldershot boss Kevin Dillon said the final result flattered Barnet, but, for once, the Bees took their chances and the Shots didn't.

What was particularly pleasing was the fact that the hosts did not sit back when they opened the scoring. They went looking for more goals, and got them. Most were of the opinion that the elusive win would probably be a case of Barnet scraping a 1-0 victory with a last-gasp winner. But they did it in style and, once skipper Micah Hyde had broken the deadlock early in the second half, there was only ever going to be one winner.

John O'Flynn, back to his predatory best, went on to bag a brace, as the Bees cruised home.

There was not much between the two sides in the first half and Aldershot should have perhaps taken the lead straight after the break.

No doubt if ex-Bee Anthony Charles had managed to score the story would have been much different. Barnet keeper Jake Cole pushed an Oliver Bozanic shot into Charles' path, but the defender saw his effort sail over the bar with the goal at his mercy. To be fair to Charles, the ball came to him a little too quickly and he did not really have much time to get it under control.

But the miss proved costly and that little 'rub of the green' was just what Barnet needed. Within five minutes, Albert Adomah, also returning to his best, put over a gem of a cross from the right and Hyde stole in unmarked to head home from a few yards.

The crucial second came on 64 minutes. The ball rolled invitingly into the path of O'Flynn after a fine Mark Hughes tackle, and the striker beat keeper Stephen Henderson with a low shot.

The two-goal cushion gave Barnet a confidence that has been missing in recent weeks and they continued to press.

And, with five minutes to go, new signing David Livermore crossed for O'Flynn to loop in a header for his second of the game.

BARNET (4-4-2): Cole; Gillet, Devera, Breen, Lockwood; Adomah (Livermore 76), Hughes, M Hyde, Jarrett (Sawyer 87); O'Flynn, J Hyde (Furlong 87). Subs not used: Carpenter, O'Neill, Deen, Deverdics.

Attendance: 2,145.