Salisbury City 2-1 Barnet

Barnet were reduced to nine men as they were beaten by Salisbury City to suffer a second-straight defeat.

Chris McPhee headed the hosts infront but Jake Hyde equalised for the visitors minutes later.

Jamie White converted a penalty after Carl Fletcher's red card, while Edgar Davids also receiving his marching orders.

Barnet made five changes from the side who lost at home to Luton Town on Boxing Day.

Andy Yiadom, Kieron Cadogan, Luisma Villa and the suspended duo Jack Saville and Jon Nurse dropped out, with Davids, Mauro Vilhete, Fletcher, Keanu Marsh-Brown and Dani Lopez coming into the side.

Salisbury had the better of the early openings, with Ricky Wellard firing a dangerous free-kick over the bar on two minutes.

Six minutes later and the hosts had another chance to take the lead. An uncharacteristic mistake by David Stephens allowed Stuart Sinclair in, but his scuffed shot was parried away by Graham Stack.

Salisbury took the lead on 18minutes. Davids can be deemed unfortunate to have conceded a free-kick, with the floated ball from this being emphatically headed into the corner of the goal by McPhee.

Barnet were only behind for two minutes, immediately coming back to equalise. Marsh-Brown's fantastic cross into the box found Jake Hyde, who notched his second goal in consecutive games, volleying his strike into the ground and over the head of the despairing Salisbury goalkeeper Will Puddy.

Mauro Vilhete had a chance to give The Bees the lead with 10 minutes of the half to go, with his low shot from the edge of the box after a darting run was tipped wide by Puddy.

Midway through the second-half Barnet missed a golden opportunity - something they would later rue. Marsh-Brown's bursting run resulted in a cross, which was palmed away by Puddy to the feet of Hyde, who horrifically hit his shot wide when it was far easier to score.

With 15 minutes to go, the game turned on its head. As Salisbury went through on goal, makeshift centre-back Fletcher was forced to commit a foul and denying a goalscoring opportunity, reducing Barnet down to 10 men and giving the hosts a penalty.

White stepped up to the mark for Mikey Harris's side, smashing home into the middle-right of the goal to restore Salisbury's lead.

Things went from bad for worse for the visitors five minutes later when they went down to nine men.

Salisbury defender Angus MacDonald clotheslined Davids, with the Dutchmen retaliating to this challenge, seeing him pick up a second yellow - producing the fifth red card in his 14-month spell at Barnet.

The Harrow-based side's second loss in a row sees them drop to ninth place, three points off the final play-off position.

Barnet: Stack; Vilhete (Acheampong), Stephens, Fletcher, Johnson; Davids, Weston (Crawford), Byrne (Gambin); Marsh-Brown, Lopez, Hyde.