Marcus Bean said York City's players tried to get under Wanderers' skins by saying they wouldn't be able to keep their relentless pace up for the whole course of Saturday's game.

Blues launched an assault at the City goal with an intensive tempo right from the word go.

Their first half efforts failed to produce a goal in the face of an outstanding display from Ministermen stopper Bobby Olejnik, and the visitors tried warning their hosts they wouldn't be able to keep up the pace for the second 45 minutes.

They were proved wrong however as Wanderers nabbed the game's only goal through Fred Onyedinma and continued to dominate a City side who had been unbeaten in six on the road.

Bean said those efforts were a microcosm of Blues' season as a whole as they once again proved an opponent wrong.

The midfielder, who was making his debut after being released by Colchester United last week, said: "I've heard a lot of people say 'We're waiting for Wycombe to slip up' and all this sort of thing. From the outside looking in I think a lot of people will think that, but since I stepped in I now see why they are top.

"The work ethic is unbelievable, to a man. They just run all over teams. That's what it felt like today, it was relentless.

"I heard some of their boys say, 'You can't keep going like this'. That work rate is enough to get you out of this league nine times out of ten.

"The word I would use to describe that performance would be relentless. The boys did the right things over and over again and it could have been more."

Bean admitted to having worries Wanderers might not be able to get the better of Olejnik but said the belief was always there that they would eventually make the breakthrough.

The 31-year-old, who gave an accomplished display in his first appearance for Wanderers, said: "About halfway through I thought it might have been one of those days where you create opportunity after opportunity and they go up the other end and score, but we stayed on it.

"When you're in that winning mentality that doesn't creep in. If you're losing, you think you're never going to score. The confidence in the team, everyone was feeling, 'It's going to come, keep doing the right things, it's going to come'."