Aldershot responded to an ultimatum from their manager and secured three crucial points at Hendon on Tuesday night.
"I told them if we didn't get the right result, I would start rebuilding," said Borg who saw the tough match at Claremont Road as a final test of Aldershot's ability to stay in the promotion race.
"We feel we are playing well, but not taking our chances," continued the manager. There's no more difficult place than Hendon. The conditions are tough and Hendon are real battlers on their own pitch. But we had the stomach for it tonight. It was pure guts that got us through."
Aldershot move up to third in the table, nine points adrift of Canvey Island, now having played the same number of games as the Essex outfit.
Aldershot's holiday programme will determine whether they are capable of closing the gap.
After the Boxing Day visit of Hampshire rivals Basingstoke, Aldershot entertain Canvey on Saturday, December 29, hoping to complete the double over the leaders who lost 3-1 at the Rec back in August.
On New Year's Day, Aldershot travel to second-placed Gravesend who, like Canvey, have lost only twice this season.
On Tuesday, Borg switched to 4-4-2 with excellent effect. Owen Coll and Leon Townley were outstanding in the centre, while the versatile Lee Protheroe fitted smoothly into an unaccustomed right-back role, allowing Ryan Kirby to give the midfield extra bite.
But it was fellow midfielder Mark Bentley who illuminated a dank, foggy night, when chances were at a premium.
Full of inventive running, as well as crunching tackles, Bentley scored the all-important goal on 37 minutes.
Protheroe's long ball was flicked on by Grant Payne and the rest was down to Bentley who beat two men, dodged inside and blasted the ball past David Hook from 12 yards.
Aldershot's gritty defence restricted Hendon to just one decent chance, Gareth Howells saving well from Leon Woodruffe.
The visitors could have stretched their lead before half-time, Bentley twice playing the ball across the face of goal after charging to the byeline.
Stafford Brown went close with a header after half-time,but Aldershot were happy to settle for what they had got and grind out the win.
Their rock-solid defence certainly frustrated Hendon who, late in the game, had John Walton sent off by referee Darren Deadman, who had an excellent game, for an ugly two-footed challenge on Mark Graham.
Aldershot: Howells, Protheroe, Chewins, Coll, Townley, Parker, Kirby, Bentley, Graham (Forrester 87 mins), Browne, Payne. Subs (not used) Harford, Nutter.