It is not often you hear a manager brand his side’s performance as “rubbish” after a 3-0 win, but that was the case on Saturday when Beaconsfield boss Gary Meakin assessed his side’s display against North Greenford.

All three goals came in the final ten minutes of the match, two of which came courtesy of striker Victor Osubu and one from substitute Aaron Berry.

The Rams boss was left unimpressed by his side’s showing against their rock bottom opponents, but was not in the mood to criticise his players after a much needed win moved them nine points clear of the drop zone in Southern One Central.

He said: “It was a win, I don’t know about a good one. We didn’t play very well but we’re at the point of the season where performances don’t really matter and it’s about getting three points.

“The performance was rubbish, but, like I said, their task before the game was to get three points and they did.

“I didn’t complain afterwards and I won’t if they do it until the end of the season. I complained more about the Leighton game because we didn’t get three points after we’d played really well. It’s results based from now until April, so I won’t complain too much if they keep getting results.”

The Becky manager felt North Greenford’s pitch, which he described as a “disgrace”, had contributed to a match that failed to set pulses racing until the visitors’ late salvo.

Osubu lit the touch paper for a frantic finale when he rounded the home keeper and coolly passed the ball into an empty net after 80 minutes.

The forward then netted his fourth in as many games with two minutes left on the clock before Berry saw his deflected shot find the net as the game ticked into stoppage time.

The late surge secured only a third away win of the season for SYCOB, leaving Meakin to praise his side for keeping their concentration throughout the contest.

“You get to a point with ten minutes to go where you think that we only need one goal,” he said. “We always felt it could come, but we’d have liked it to have come earlier than it did.

“Most of the game was like a training exercise; it was attack versus defence for most of the game. You had to make sure that we were switched on and didn’t concede on the break.”

Midfielder Chris Henry made his Rams debut after signing on loan from Kingstonian, while fellow new boys Richard Worrall and Mark Jameson are likely to be involved in the coming weeks.

St Ives Town are likely to present a much tougher test for Meakin and his side on Saturday when the 11th place outfit come to town, and the SYCOB boss is hopeful of getting a positive result.

He said: “They’ll be strong and they’re better than their league position suggests. It will be a tough game but it is at home.

“Our pitch is nice at the moment and we don’t like losing at home; we’ve got a good record at Holloways Park and we should do ok.”