Recap: Kabongo Tshimanga scores hat-trick as Chesterfield hit four past Barnet in dramatic encounter
The Spireites are unbeaten in five but have drawn their last two so they will be hoping to return to winning ways.
The Blues hammered the Bees 6-0 in this fixture last season but a lot has changed at Barnet over the summer, including in the dugout where they are now managed by former Leeds and Liverpool winger Harry Kewell.
Liam Norcliffe is there tonight and will bring you everything you need to know.
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Key Events
- FT: Chesterfield 4 v 2 Barnet (7.45pm KO)
- Tshimanga tap-in and penalty make it 2-0 after eight minutes, completes hat-trick with another spot-kick in second-half
- Visitors score two deflected strikes in three minutes to equalise before half-time
- Gunning scores deflected free-kick for goal number four
- Five changes for Chesterfield tonight as Grimes, King, Weston, Khan and Payne replace Maguire, Carline, McCourt, Mandeville and Rowe.
- (3-4-1-2): Loach; Kerr, Gunning, Grimes; King, Weston, Oyeleke, Miller; Khan; Payne, Tshimanga. Subs: Carline, Whittle, McCourt, Mandeville, Rowe.
- Maguire missed out with ankle injury
Great football
Another chance. Great combination play by Khan and Oyeleke on the edge of the box, Tshimanga gets involved and has a shot saved, Miller follows in but he is offside.
Totally dominant
Chesterfield could get six or seven here. This time a lovely weighted pass by Weston sends Payne clear. He fakes to shoot, cuts back on his left and then does shoot but a sliding block comes in from an away defender.
It really should be 3-0 now. Khan goes around Sargeant in the Barnet goal but he smashes it into the side-netting instead of rolling it into an emty goal. It was almost too easy. Hope they don’t rue these misses.
GOOOOAAALLLLL!!! 2-0
TSHIMANGA AGAIN!!!
Payne was brought down in the area and the striker buried it to make it 2-0 after just eight minutes.
What a start!