National coach Kenny Thompson had nothing but praise for his chargers following their impressive demolition of Caribbean Football Union (CFU) rivals Barbados at the National Sports Centre (NSC) last night.

Thompson's men, bolstered by the return of Khano Smith, Sammy DeGraff and Tyrell Burgess, ran rampant over their opponents who were reduced to chasing ghosts for much of the match.

Bermuda took a commanding lead by the end of the first-half and then put up the shutters to complete the double over the Bajans.

It was a performance that received rave reviews from coach Thompson who has now urged his players to keep their feet planted firmly on the ground ahead of Sunday's crucial World Cup qualifying first leg encounter with the Soca Warriors in the Caribbean.

"Overall, it was a very good performance that will give the players more confidence going into the Trinidad match," he said.

"And it's a total credit to the organisation that we are seeing progress.

"We have done a lot of work but there's still a lot of work to be done because it's important we continue to have growth. It's important that we don't get too far ahead of ourselves and that we remain humble as well to continue to grow."

From the opening whistle Bermuda imposed their will on their opponents and in clinical fashion capitalised in front of goal on the back of some clever build ups.

"I think the credit has to go to our team because we were a little more productive in the early stages of the match," Thompson said. "I thought tonight we started the match extremely well and scored around the tenth minute.

"I think that had an impact on their (Barbados) performance and then at 2-0 down it was difficult for them to come back.

"I think Barbados wanted to come out and play a better game than they did on Friday night, but our performance just didn't allow that.

"We wanted to put more pressure on Barbados with the ball and look for penetrative opportunities - and we certainly did that in the first- half."

Thompson was also impressed with his team's defending, which saw the back four of skipper Omar Shakir, Kofi Dill, Antonio Lowe, and Kevin Richards form an impenetrable wall.

"Defensively I thought we were sound and overall the team is showing a lot of signs of confidence and self belief," he said.

"In the second-half we expected Barbados would try and put us under pressure from a defensive standpoint and so we were prepared to be even more patient with the ball and look for opportunities when we could score more goals.

"The team's spirit is good and the players were quite confident coming in that they could improve upon Friday's performance. And overall what you are now seeing is a result of a lot of dedicated work from everybody involved."

In contrast to Thompson's buoyant bunch, Barbados depart for California to begin preparations for a World Cup qualifier against the mighty US fresh off back-to-back losses.

"It was not a good night for us, but these things happen. Two bad results doesn't do our confidence any good, but we will have to get the guys together and get our confidence going when we arrive in LA," Barbados coach Eyre Sealy lamented.

Sealy again took issue with the refereeing but admitted the better team won on the night.

"Bermuda played better than us on a whole," he acknowledged.

"The guys have to keep their cool when there's bad refereeing decisions and adversity. You must remain calm under these conditions."