MK Dons v The Mighty Gas. Official match day thread .

Defence backing away and allowing the shot! Been coming from the first minutes.

Only what we deserve

Well taken goal but given too much space

Typical
Concede seconds before the break

We are not closing them down just before the penalty box
Too much space and time

Scared football by us?

So far we have been terrible and they are playing composed football.

Apparently not. Statistics have shown that it doesn’t have a disproportionate effect on the result to score just before half time. There’s also evidence to suggest if the home team scores just before half time the away team often score the next goal. One possible theory is that the home team relax having been on top.

My thoughts as well.

If it was 0-0 at HT we would continue as we were, now we have to push on and we know PT teams do this.

As you said, we ain't trained in 2 weeks.Going behind could fire us up.

Exactly how i thought it would go. We don't look like scoring just shows the work Grant does and how we link play better with Westbrooke. Cam Hargreaves looks well out his depth maybe down to not playing much and we just can't get a grip of the ball.
Plus points are we look quite well organised and have defended well until the last minute of the half.
PT will have to work some magic to turn this around as we haven't had a shot yet.

As Garner krept back in over Christmas, as this is just like watching a pre PT match. 

We look exactly like a team that’s had injuries, been in isolation and not played much football for the last few weeks, playing away from home on a poor pitch etc As much as it’s been a really poor performance so far, this should probably be considered.

The goal just before half time was a bit of a sucker punch because 0-0 at half time would be a decent score line. Woeful bit of defending though, just backed off and granted their player the opportunity to shoot.

Need to step up our game and get the ball to Hanlan and Nicholson in better positions in the second half. At 1-0 down it will be a bit of a struggle but a result is still very possible in this.