After Luisma Villa’s double against Braintree Town on Tuesday, Jon Nurse says Barnet strikers aren’t under pressure to score, with players contributing throughout the side.

Luisma scored two sumptuous first-half goals to help the Bees go eight points clear atop the Conference with victory over the Iron, and the Spaniard now boasts seven goals in just eight league starts this term.

And he is not alone. Winger Lee Cook has netted eight and six other non-strikers have all registered this season.

Speaking after Tuesday’s 2-0 win over Braintree, in which he made his sixth start of the season, Nurse refuted the notion there was any pressure on the club’s forward to score goals.

He explained: "I don’t think the strikers really feel pressure to score goals here because you look around and it if it is not John (Akinde) it is Cooky (Lee Cook), Luisma (Villa) or Curt (Curtis Weston) - and you have got (Luke) Gambin [who] came on today and scored.

"So there are goals throughout the team really and goal-scoring has never been a problem for us."

The 33-year-old continued: "The gaffer shows great confidence in us as a squad and the importance of rotating the squad because you need to make everyone feel part of it.

"If we are going to do this we have got to do it as a squad - not just as an 11. People like Gambin came on today and influenced the game and affected the game; it is the hard work they do in training which they take onto the pitch with them."

Despite putting eight points between themselves and second-placed Halifax Town with Tuesday’s win, Nurse echoed his Martin Allen's sentiment: the title is not won at this stage.

"We are not worried about how many points clear [we are] or who is chasing us," stated Nurse. "We are just concentrating on us and trying to get as many points as we can from now until the end of the season.

"I think any successful manager, you don’t look at the league table or the points in October. You don’t win the league in October. We have got a squad where we do not really go and look at the league table and think: ‘We are this many points clear’ - we are not about that; we are about feet on the ground, get back to work and try and get as many points on the board. We have got our target and we will keep trying to get there."

Barnet were left frustrated after their last game at The Hive; racing into a 3-0 lead against Kidderminster Harriers only to finish with just a point to show for their efforts, and Nurse has been encouraged by the squad’s reaction.

He proffered: "That game at home hurt all of us, from the gaffer right through to the boys that did not even play. To be in the position we were and not take maximum points from the game was something we all looked at and something we all felt we had to get right.

"The way we bounced back is the way we expect to bounce back and the things the gaffer instils in us and the way we have gone and played in the next two games after that result has shown I think.

"There are highs and lows in football - probably more lows than highs - so it is the way you bounce back from those lows [which is important]."