Recap: Unbeaten Chesterfield beat Barnet to go top of National League

Chesterfield v Barnet - live updates.Chesterfield v Barnet - live updates.
Chesterfield v Barnet - live updates.
Chesterfield entertain league leaders Barnet tonight (7.45pm KO).

The Spireites and the Bees are both unbeaten in the National League after four games.

Town will overtake tonight’s opponents and go top with a win.

Our reporter Liam Norcliffe is at the match and will bring you all the build-up, team news, updates and reaction.

Chesterfield v Barnet: LIVE UPDATES

Key Events

  • FT: Chesterfield 3 v 1 Barnet (7.45pm KO)
  • Spireites go top of league with win
  • Banks opens scoring after just two minutes; Shields equalises on 17 minutes; Asante makes it 2-1 on 34 minutes
  • Tshimanga comes off bench to make it 3-1 - his first goal since February
  • One change for Spireites as Covolan is recalled; Uchegbulam on bench for first time

Gorman hits the post with a well-taken low shot from distance.

Asante puts the ball over the top from a couple of yards out from King’s near-post corner. He has his head in his hands.

Chesterfield sub - 68 minutes

Tshimanga on, Quigley off.

Quigley gets a standing ovation.

Fires over and wide from a tight angle.

It’s all Chesterfield at the moment.

Looks like Tshimanga is coming on.

From the resulting corner, Quigley glances a header against the woodwork. So close!

Blues pressing for a third.

2-1 on the hour.

Mandeville pokes a ball through to Quigley inside the box. The striker smashes the ball down the middle, Walkes stands tall and parries for a corner.

Drops to the floor after an off-the-ball incident with a Barnet man as the visitors for ready to take a corner. Referee didn’t see it, and neither did to be honest. Nothing given.

Barnet’s De Havilland goes through on goal but Covolan saves well. It was a simple ball over the top and the defence was nowhere. That has happened a couple of times now.

Here we go in the second-half.

HT: Chesterfield 2 v 1 Barnet

Entertaining game. Town pushing for a third, but could have conceded an equaliser as well. Barnet had a goal ruled out right on half-time