AFC Wimbledon boss Johnnie Jackson delighted with ‘incredible’ win over MK Dons

Posted Monday, November 04, 2024 by PA

Johnnie Jackson was delighted with the performance of AFC Wimbledon after beating MK Dons 2-0 in the FA Cup first round.

Goals either side of half-time from Matty Stevens and Omar Bugiel earned their place in the second round for the visitors, who beat rivals MK Dons for the third time in a row.

Jackson voiced his happiness with what he witnessed. He said: “They’re a good team and this fixture has a little bit extra always riding on it.

“So to come and play in the calm and composed manner, that’s really professional, and to get the result to match the performance, which we haven’t always been doing of late – playing well but not always coming together – for that all to come together today was incredible.

“One of the really impressive things about our performance is that we didn’t stop, even when we went 2-0 up.

“We just carried on being us and causing problems all day. To get that second one was a big goal. We took the game away from them with the second goal.”

MK Dons boss Scott Lindsey was less impressed and was annoyed by the timing and manner of the goals conceded.

“It wasn’t what we wanted,” Lindsey said. “We didn’t defend two moments well enough which consequently ended up killing the momentum of the game.

“The timing makes it so much worse than it needs to be because it’s a minute before half-time so we gather the troops, speak about one or two things, then go out and concede straight away after the second half starts.

“The timing of the goals were terrible and the manner in which we concede is terrible. We get a man sent off with about 25 minutes to go and then the game’s out of sight.”