County claim first home win since February

County are celebrating their first home win in over seven months after Robbie William’s first goal for the club helped see off a spirited Barnet 2-1.

Williams struck eleven minutes from the end, as the Hatters came from behind to defeat Barnet and leave them rooted in the relegation zone.

The first 45 minutes of the game was virtually non-existent as the opening exchanges passed by with very little action at either end.

Mark Bryne tested keeper Matt Glennon with a near-post header and then minutes later saw a 30-yard strike sail over the crossbar.

It was Mauro Vilhete who had the best chance of the opening 45 minutes when he blazed over the bar from just a yard out, after the impressive Mark Marshall had skipped past Mark Lynch and driven in a cross.

Apart from the fore-mentioned opportunities absolutely nothing else happened during a dire first-half.

If Barnet were dissapointed to only go in at half-time level they didn’t hang around to feel sorry for themselves.

Just 40 seconds into the second-half George Francombe crossed from the right and Byrne slipped in between County`s centre halves to head past a despairing Glennon.

County however were level within five minutes when the brilliant George Donnelly collected a Mark Lynch throw-in and from 25 yards out unleashed a left-footed thunderbolt past the Barnet goalkeeper which hit the inside of the post before rolling over the goalline.

That was Donnelly’s seventh goal of the season.

And it was left to Williams to decide proceedings in the 79th minute when he fired past Barnet goalkeeper Jake Cole from just yards out after Anthony Pulis’cross had found him in space at the back post.