Wycombe Wanderers ultimately cruised to a 3-1 win against Barnet to make it three League Two wins in a week.

Adebayo Akinfenwa opened the scoring on 23 minutes with his sixth goal of the season, when he buried a header past Craig Ross after a superb cross from Nathan Tyson.

Josh Umerah then made it two with his first goal for the club, finishing smartly from Akinfenwa's flick-on on 64 minutes.

Fellow substitute Nick Freeman made it 3-0 on 76 minutes with a glorious strike, beating Ricardo Santos and crashing a shot home via the crossbar.

The visitors pulled one back on 78 minutes when Mauro Vilhete volleyed home from six yards but Wanderers were good value for the win.

Barnet had the first chance on five minutes when Vilhete burst clear out of midfield and his strike from the edge of the box was well held by Scott Brown.

A minute later, Brown produced an excellent save to deny Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro from six yards.

Wycombe were fairly subdued early on against the visitors who had the upper hand in the opening 10 minutes.

The Bees were definitely on top and almost took the lead on 20 minutes when Shaquile Coulthirst saw an effort cleared off the line by Joe Jacobson before the same player saw a shot tipped round the post by Brown.

Rossi Eames’ men again got in behind moments later but were denied yet again by a wonderful save by Brown this time from Andre Blackman.

However, seconds later, with their first real attack, Tyson put in a delicious cross which found an unmarked Akinfenwa who did the rest.

The goal woke Wanderers up and Craig Mackail-Smith got in behind a static Bees defence and waited for supported but saw his deflected comfortably held by Ross.

The visitors almost equalised on 33 minutes when Blackman’s delivery found Akpa Akpro who headed inches wide with Brown beaten.

Akinfenwa nearly doubled the Blues’ advantage on 36 minutes when he met Jacobson’s fantastic free kick but was fractionally off target with his firm header.

The game was opening up a tad and Sam Saunders got away from Michael Nelson who 39 minutes and his shot deflected agonisingly wide of the far post.

Right on the stroke of half-time, Jacobson hit a delightful free-kick from 25 yards narrowly wide as the Chairboys ended the half on top.

Wanderers started the second half on the front foot backed by a vociferous home support, pinning Barnet back.

Anthony Stewart almost produced a stunner on 50 minutes when he curled an effort destined for the top corner from 30 yards but Ross tipped it away for a corner.

The Blues were hunting a second goal and an almighty scramble almost saw Jacobson score on 53 minutes before it was cleared by a panicky Bees defence.

Wycombe were definitely in the ascendency and took a deserved 2-0 lead when Umerah grabbed his first goal in Blues colours.

Akinfenwa almost made it three two minutes later with a piledriver that flashed just wide of Ross’ right hand post.

Barnet still posed a threat on the break and Simeon Akinola had a chance to pull one back but couldn’t quite get his header on target from Vilhete’s ball in.

David Tutonda was next to have a crack for the visitors but his rasping shot flew just too high on 72 minutes.

Substitute Nick Freeman then smashed home a sublime third before Vilhete scored a consolation.

Wanderers saw the rest of the game out without alarm and with that climb into the playoff zone.

WYCOMBE WANDERERS: Brown, Harriman, Stewart, El-Abd, Jacobson, Bean, Saunders, Eze (sub: Gape, 86), Tyson (sub: Freeman, 74), Akinfenwa, Mackail-Smith (sub: Umerah, 59). Subs: Richardson, Jombati, Scarr, Southwell.

BARNET: Ross, Clough, Nelson, Santos, Tutonda, Akpa Akpro, Vilhete, Campbell-Ryce (sub: Mason-Clark, 85), Fonguck, Blackman, Coulthirst (sub: Akinola, 46). Subs: McKenzie-Lyle, J.Taylor, Bover, H.Taylor, Mars.

ATTENDANCE: 4,056

REFEREE: Ross Joyce