King’s Lynn turn on the style to thrash Kidderminster Harriers in National League North
King’s Lynn Town 4 Kidderminster Harriers 0
King's Lynn Town claimed their biggest scalp of the season at The Walks as they inflicted the heaviest defeat on Phil Brown as Kidderminster Harriers manager.
Striker Jonny Margetts led the rout with a brace while both Finlay Barnes and Josh McCammon capped fine individual displays with a goal each.
Kidderminster began the evening second in the National League North standings with Lynn in sixth - by the end of the night Lynn were joint-second alongside Scunthorpe and Curzon Ashton and Harriers had dropped down to fifth.
Lynn were simply brilliant from start to finish with Barnes playing an instrumental role in Harriers' demise.
After the game, Linnets boss Adam Lakeland said: Lakeland said: "I thought we were excellent tonight.
"I thought we were the better team against a very good opponent. We started the game with real intent and played with purpose and great energy.
"We were the better team throughout against a very good opponent and I thought we started the game with a real intent, played with purpose with great energy.
"Obviously, we got our noses in front from a corner and we were unlucky a couple of occasions before that with a couple blocked on the line.
"I felt we lost our way a little bit between 1-0 and 2-0 where Pat Boyes has made an unbelievable double save and if he doesn't make that it goes to 1-1 and the the outcome could be very different.
"We scored a really good second goal, Freddie (Sass) with a brilliant cross and I was delighted for Josh Mccammon to get his his first goal for us. It's long overdue but it has come come eventually.
"I just thought in the second half we showed a real maturity and professionalism to the way that we played and managed the game and stayed on the ball well at times.
"We looked constant threat and took the game away from them. Good work on the side by Dylan and Josh to create a two versus one, won the ball back, slipped inside Josh Hmami who then played in Finn and he scored his first goal for us.
"I said it on Saturday after the game he was unfortunate not to play the game because I feel like his performances have been getting better and better for us so I'm delighted for him to have got his first goal for us.
"Mags (Jonny Margetts) puts the result well beyond doubt with his second and our fourth.
"Maybe we could and should have got more from them, but delighted that we shut them out and kept a clean sheet. It was just a really good performance all round."
Lakeland added: “You have to work hard if you're going to play in this team. I think of the two, you'd have said that they played Saturday, not us because I thought we looked fresher, sharper, fitter, perhaps.
"I know they played quite a while in the second half with 10 men, but the work rate of every player on the pitch is what we expect.
"Finn has got great quality and technically he's just such a nice player to watch. But together with his work rate, that's what makes him an even better player.
"But I could say the same about everybody. I thought everybody to a man tonight was just superb."
Lakeland shuffled his pack once again by making three changes to the team that started Saturday's 1-0 victory over Southport.
Dylan Crowe, Freddie Sass and Finlay Barnes all returned to the fold with the trio of Josh Coulson, Tommy Hughes and Ross Crane all dropping to the bench.
Striker Gold Omotayo's ankle injury ruled him out of an appearance against his former club.
Early claims for a home penalty were turned down after a long throw from Freddie Sass took the visitors by surprise and appeared to strike a visiting defender's hand.
The busy Barnes created a pocket of space in the Kidderminster box early in the proceedings but saw his shot blocked.
Barnes was pulled from pillar to post in the opening quarter of the game and, after winning yet another free-kick, Josh Hmami's deep delivery was palmed away by Christian Dibble.
A few minutes of home pressure followed as Kyle Callan McFadden saw his header cleared off the line.
It was the home side who deservedly took the lead midway through the half as Hmami delivered a corner from the left and the alert Margetts glanced home the faintest of headers.
Goalkeeper Pat Boyes pulled off a stunning double save 15 minutes before the break to deny Amari Morgan-Smith and keep his side's lead intact.
Harriers were starting to look dangerous but two minutes before half-time a clever header from Margetts allowed Freddie Sass to deliver a cross for McCammon to stab home a second for the hosts.
Both sides traded punches at the start of the second half but it was Lynn who delivered the knockout blow nine minutes after the restart.
McCammon won the ball on the touchline and Hmami picked it up and glided past a couple of challenges before threading a delightful ball through for Barnes to fire the ball past Dibble.
The visitors were reduced to 10 men four minutes later after Kam Kandola picked up his second yellow card of the evening.
If the evening hadn't been bad enough for Harriers, it got even worse after 63 minutes when McCammon's centre was nodded down by Tom Wilson into the path of Margetts for his second goal of the evening.
King's Lynn Town: Boyes, Crowe (Crane 84), McFadden, Wilson, Sass (Coulson 60), Taylor, Johnson, Hmami (Hughes 70), McCammon, Barnes (Williams 84), Margetts (Walker 90).
Booked: McCammon.
Scorers: Margetts 21, 64, McCammon 44, Barnes 53.
Kidderminster Harriers: Dibble, Richards, McNally (Downing 68), Morgan-Smith, Hemmings, Cadogan, Foulkes, Thompson (Hall 54), Davis (Rubio 72), Kandola, Reynolds (Foran 60). Sub not used: Palmer
Booked: Kandola, Reynolds. Sent-off: Kandola
Attendance: 795.
