The sun shone, the weather was warm and the season was almost over. Surely this would be a case of going through the motions. Not for Ware it seems who had an unbeaten run to protect and turned in a good, sometimes excellent performance.

Beaconsfield, showing six changes from the side that held Ware in a solid grip and eventually to a draw in October’s reverse fixture, seemed just that bit behind their opponents for much of this game.

Ware themselves started with a slightly unfamiliar look. Paul Halsey wanted to give as many of his squad as possible a game and started with several regulars left on the bench and recent substitutes given a start.

It all seemed to be working after just three minutes when Gabriel Chapps harried Beaconsfield’s Luke Neville into a hasty pass that came off Gucci Soulya-Osekanongo and on to Johnny Allotey. Allotey took it wide of keeper Tommy Dymott to score from a narrow angle.

The goal was a confidence booster and Ware started to move the ball around with neat one-twos and triangles, finding their men almost instinctively. By contrast the home defence looked vulnerable to pressure and were prone to losing the ball as Ware snapped at their heels.

Another goal seemed likely and it came thirty minutes after the first. Fred Burbidge’s free kick found Allotey wide on the right but under pressure from Troy Silvera. The Ware number seven took the ball to the byline and along it into the penalty area.

At this point Silvera may have been wary of conceding a penalty and why risk that when Allotey had nowhere to go. If so the Ware man had a different opinion and tried his luck with a cross into the six yard box. Dymott went down and deflected the ball away with his foot only for it to find Soulya-Osekanongo just outside the goal area and scoring with a first time shot.

Allotey must have an inbuilt clock because he scored his second and Ware’s third after another thirty minutes of play. Mackye Townsend-West’s clearance from deep in the Ware half was helped on by Joe Dearman to Sam Mayuma on the half way line. His drive took him to the Beaconsfield byline from where his cross was met by Allotey just feet short of the goal line and with the simple task of putting it away.

The goal came after a prolonged period of Ware pressure following the half time break. There had been several chances for the visitors of which the best was surely Chapps’ fierce header from close range and off Soulya-Osekanongo’s cross that Dymott, with all his goalkeeper’s instinct, fisted away for a corner with the best save of the match.

The game may then have taken a different turn for shortly after a through ball into the Ware defence found Burbidge coming forward to intercept as Jay Rolfe came back with the same intention. They collided in a clash of heads and both went down and probably out while the ball ran free for Akiel Raffie to put between the posts.

By then however the referee had stopped play and physios from both benches ran on to treat the injured men. It took some time and after treatment that contributed to an additional nine minutes at the end of the game both were back on their feet though Burbidge still looked groggy.

Soon after and with Ware now three up Paul Halsey started to bring on his substitutes as he had promised. The tempo did wind down after this but chances were still being created not least when Dearman celebrated his hundredth appearance for Ware with a shot from distance that brought another good save out of Dymott.

Ware: Fred Burbidge, Chukuma Okotcha, Joe Dearman, Sami Moutawafiq (Max Granville 70mins), Jay Rolfe, Mackye Townsend-West, Johnny Allotey, Mitch Hahn (Theo Ofori 72mins), Gabriel Chapps (Jon Clements 72mins), Gucci Soulya-Osekanongo (George Ironton 70mins), Sam Mayuma (Ike Okwusogu 64mins).