Football: Match in the spotlight MK Dons v Tranmere 3pm tomorrow.Byline: Steve DaviesTHE HOME VIEW Our luck has finally changed Danny Wilson Dons manager YOU have to go the distance in the league. Anyone who gives up after 35 matches wants their backsides kicking because there is so much still to play for as we have proved. Luck plays a major part in your season and we have had wretched luck at times. Yet in our last two games, against Hartlepool and Chesterfield, the goals have arrived really late. Now suddenly our destiny is in our own hands. Tranmere had a bad result on Saturday so if we can beat them we go above them in the table. If we get two wins I'd like to think that we will finish out of the bottom four. THE AWAY VIEW We have plenty of character Brian Little Brian Little can refer to:
FOUR games ago you'd have bet on us being 100 per cent safe. Now we've lost four in a row, two players to injury, two more to suspension, but at least we know exactly what we have to do. I know we can't go out and buy a bucketful of confidence but what we have got is character and commitment - we are in a corner but we won't lie down. Over the last 15 years as a manager I have gone into the last game of a season needing a win to get promoted, win a championship or avoid relegation. I have been there, seen it and done it, yet every experience is a new one. This is probably as bad a season as I have ever had but it can finish on some sort of high if we want it to. Key stat The MK Dons won their last two matches last season to stay up - one was a 2-1 win against Tranmere. The Dons had five 2-1 wins in their last 11 matches. Match betting Best prices MK Dons 11-10 Bet365 Paddy Power Tranmere 13-5 Tote Draw 5-2 Ladbrokes, Tote First goalscorer Bet365: 9-2 I McLeod (MK), 5 S Taylor (MK), C Platt (MK), 13-2 C Greenacre (T), W Small (MK), C Zola (MK), 8 D Facey (T), 9 S Davies (T), G Smith (MK), N Rizo (MK), 12 G Edds (MK), 16 S O'Leary (T), 18 B Harding (MK), M Kamara (MK), 28 S Aiston (T), G Roberts (T) Key man Gareth Edds Gareth Edds (born February 3, 1981 in Sydney, Australia) is a football (soccer) defender currently playing for Football League Two side Milton Keynes Dons. He started his career in 1999 with Nottingham Forest before leaving for Swindon Town in the summer of 2002. , MK Dons Gareth Edds won't make it on to the Australian flight to Germany this summer but he'll be getting the freedom of Milton Keynes Milton Keynes (mĭl`tən kēnz`), town (1991 pop. 36,886) and borough, S central England. Milton Keynes was designated one of the new towns in 1967 to alleviate overpopulation in London. It is the seat of the Open Univ. (presuming pre·sum·ing adj. Having or showing excessive and arrogant self-confidence; presumptuous. pre·sum  ing·ly adv. he'd want it) if his side stays up.
Failure to win at Chesterfield last week would have meant disaster but ex-Nottingham Forest man Edds pounced pounce 1 v. pounced, pounc·ing, pounc·es v.intr. 1. To spring or swoop with intent to seize someone or something: in injury time to maintain the Dons' remarkable transformation from relegation certs to survival possibles. |
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