Barnet 4-1 Reading

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Barnet 4-1 Reading

Conference club Barnet marched into the southern section semi-finals of the LDV Vans Trophy with a shock victory over Division Two highflyers Reading.

Ben Strevens fired the non-League side ahead on the quarter-hour mark but Darius Henderson equalised almost immediately for Alan Pardew's men.

Mark Arber put Barnet back into the lead after 30 minutes and Reading's cause suffered a further setback just before half-time when Henderson went from hero to villain and was sent off for violent conduct.

Strevens grabbed his second goal of the night in the 79th minute and the Royals' misery was complete when Austin Berkley added the fourth in stoppage time.

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Barnet: Naisbitt, Gledhill, Heald, Arber, Flynn, Bell, Doolan, Toms, Midgley, Strevens, Purser. Subs: Sawyers, Harrison, Berkley, Taylor, Niven.

Reading: Ashdown, Viveash, Williams, Shorey, Igoe, Gamble, Harper, Rougier, Salako, Forster, Henderson. Subs: Hughes, Parkinson, Tyson, Mackie, Malessa.

Referee: W Jordan (Tring).