NEAL ARDLEY is looking to reinstate belief into his York City side that they can beat anyone ahead of tonight's match with Barnet at the LNER Community Stadium (7.45pm).

York have celebrated two victories in Ardley's opening four matches as City boss, seeing the Minstermen exit the Vanarama National League relegation zone in these early stages of the season.

Ardley has a plan to stop a Barnet side that have had a fantastic start to the season, dropping just eight points from a possible 33, with the Bees currently occupying third position.

"My job is to gradually get my team believing that they can match anyone." Ardley told the Press.

“As always in any game, we’ve got to be really good without the ball, because they can hurt you going forward.

"We’ve got to find a way to hurt them, they are a very athletic and powerful team, you always need to find a way to win.

"We’ve got our way we want to play, but we need to make sure we do the nitty gritty as we did on Saturday.

“We want to win the game. We always say to the lads ‘don’t be scared to lose', you should never be scared to lose a game of football.

"I think we talked about it but in the 98th minute on Saturday, one full-back was crossing and another full-back scored.

"That's not ideal for me, but it happens and we want to try and win games.

"We’ve got to find a way to hurt them and it’s not going to be easy, at this precise moment Barnet are probably a better team than us and are in a better place than us.

"They had form in the play-offs last season and their form this season tells us that that is the case.

“The plan to stop him is to stop them from overriding and stopping how they play.

"They’ve got a good system and their manager has implemented it well, they cause all sorts of problems and have good players all over the pitch.

"If any team only has one good player, it’s easy to mark, but when they’ve got several players then that’s when you get occupied with other things and a player like (Nicke) Kabamba gets free in the box.

"We’ve got a game plan, we’ve shown the lads today, the lads know what they’re doing without the ball and should look forward to it because they’re all on the same page.

"On the day you’ve got to defend your box properly."

Ardley is also happy with the current mood around the camp, which has improved in the recent upturn of form, and admitted that he doesn't pay attention to the league standings.

“The boys have got a smile on their face, but we all got happy after the boys were celebrating after the Southend game with our first win, everyone was jumping up and down and then we put in a limp performance after it.

"The first thing I said after the game was to start preparing for Tuesday, that game is gone now and we can’t do anything about it, we’ve got the points but we’ve got to move on and get our bodies in the right place to put in another epic performance.

“I don’t really look at the league, I never really looked at the league when I was in and around it either, I just look at points-per-game.

"Everything for me is about trying to get a points-per-game total and a rhythm with that that gives you a chance.

"I’ve always set my targets on trying to get a 1.8 points-per-game and above, because I know that gets you in the play-offs.

"Here at the moment, we need to make sure we get out of it to get ourselves where we need to be so we can keep progressing.

"It’s great that we’re out of it, but the bigger picture is that we have 37 games and need to keep the points total where it needs to be."