Barnet lost 3-0 at Dean Court courtesy of three second half goals after holding the Cherries at bay for nearly an hour. The home side eventually ran out comfortable winners with two goals in a three minute spell virtually sealing Barnet's fate.

Gary Breen was absent with a knee injury and was replaced at the back by Dave Livermore. Mark Hughes returned from suspension in midfield with Jake Hyde replacing Paul Furlong upfront who was out with an eye injury.

The Bees started confidently, clearly buoyed by the performance and result at Port Vale a few days earlier. Albert Jarrett looked to have the beating of the veteran Lee Bradbury and delivered his usual steady flow of crosses, but crucially there was not the head of a Barnet player to found on the end of one of his deliveries.There were warning signs however when long balls forward behind the Barnet defence bounced dangerously without being cleared instantly, although but the Bournemouth forwards were unable to capitalise.

The front pairing for the Cherries of Steve Fletcher and Brett Pitman were becoming difficult to contain. They worked hard as a pair and have a physical presence that needs to be countered. Barnet in the first half had been successful in this task and had a ball into the middle from Jake Hyde into the path of John O'Flynn been weighted slightly differently a goal for the Bees would have been a likely outcome.

As the hour mark approached Matt Lockwood lost his footing as the ball was spread wide to the ex-Hayes winger Liam Feeney whose perfect delivery from the flank was powered home by the head of Fletcher from close range.

Three minutes later, before the Bees could muster their resources to wage a response to going one down, the ball appeared to be in both hands of Jake Cole, when Pitman challenged for the ball and from the resulting melee slipped the ball into the net.

An uphill task now; and with some fifteen minutes remaining neat interplay on the edge of the Barnet box culminated with Pitman striking a venomous low shot into the bottom corner which made the points safe for the home side.

When John O'Flynn limped off with a sprained ankle, Kenny Gillet was introduced into the fray, with the subsequent positional changes allowing Albert Adomah's pace to be deployed upfront in attack.

After the Port Vale game the result at Dean Court is obviously something of a come down, but amassing three points from these two difficult fixtures is not something to be sneered at.

High flying Bury are Barnet's next opponents at Underhill this Saturday.

David Bloomfield.