BARTON STARTED SLUGISHLY AND WERE ON THE BACK FOOR FOR MOST OF THE HALF, THE WIND PLAYED A MAJOR PART, AND BARTON WERE UNABLE TO GET THE BALL DOWN AND PLAY IN DIFFICULT CONDITIONS.

BECTIVE DESERVEDLY TOOK THE LEAD MIDWAY THROUGH THE HALF, HOWEVER IT WAS DOWN TO A HIGHLY DUBIOUS PENALTY WHICH EVEN BECTIVE LOOKED EMBARRASSED TO HAVE EARNED.

BARTON LOOKED TIRED WERE SECOND TO EVERYTHING IN THE AIR AND ON THE GROUND, AND ONLY MUSTERED ONE CHANCE IN THE WHOLE OF THE HALF.BARTON WERE LUCKY TO BE ONLY ONE GOAL DOWN AT HALF TIME.

FROM THE RESTART BARTON LOOKED A DIFFERENT TEAM, AND DOMINATED THE EARLY EXCAHNGES, BECTIVE WERE OPENED UP AT WILL, AND IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE BARTON LEVELED.

AFTER A FOUL OUTSIDE THE BOX KRIS HALL TOOK A QUICK FREE KICK AND CURLED THE BALL INTO THE TOP CORNER.
BARTON WERE CREATING CHANCES AFTER CHANCES, AFTER A CORNER WAS NOT DEALT WITH BIG LEE SAVING POPPED UP TO STEER THE BALL HOME FROM 6 YARDS TO PUT BARTON IN THE LEAD.

BARTON WERE THEN DENIED A CAST IRON HANDBALL FOR A PENALTY, BUT IT DIDN’T MATTER AS MOMENTS LATER A FLOWING MOVE DOWN THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, SAW KRIS HALL GRAB HIS SECOND OF THE GAME.

BARTON IN THE END SAW THE GAME THROUGH AS 3-1 COMFORTABLE WINNERS.

RICH ELLSON WAS DELIGHTED WITH THE TURN AROUND IN FORTUNES STATING,

“In the 1st half we carried too many players, who just weren’t on their game, it was not an acceptable performance in light of the recent form of the side, a few harsh words at half time seemed to do the trick, and we totally dominated the second half, and fully deserved the 3 points, we have some tricky games coming up but we are still in with a shout of promotion, we just have to stay injury free and if we have a little bit of luck along the way we might just do it”