Milton Keynes Dons manager Paul Ince felt his side's second half performance on Saturday could have won them the game, but slammed their first half defending, describing it as 'diabolical'. The Dons drew 2-2 against Yeovil Town, but conceded within 33 seconds of the game started and let in another later in the half, as Dean Bowditch and Shaun MacDonald netted for the Glovers.
Ince told BBC 3 Counties Radio that he had a problem with the gaps Yeovil were able to expose through the middle of his defence, and the way his team started the match:
"I felt that in the second half we should have won the game, because we had more than enough chances. But I'm more disappointed with the things that we've worked on this week. You just can't throw them away after 30-34 seconds. Letting people get in between the two centre-halves - and we're talking about two experienced players here - the defending today was diabolical."
Ince also admitted that central defender David McCracken could have seen red midway through the half when he upended Bowditch just on the edge of the box, only for referee Paul Tierney to dish out a yellow. Ince felt that was another instance where his side had been carved open:
"It happened twice because there was the one where Cracks (David McCracken) could have got sent off. And they scored another goal. So I'm disappointed with that. I felt that we defended too deep in the first half which allowed them to get in behind our lines. After the first half, I gave them a rollicking and told them to defend higher up the park. We did that in the second half and we looked a better side. we got real close to each other and pressed and packed them. We won out headers at the back apart from a couple of skirmishes in the last seconds, but in the second half it was all about us."
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7 December 2009 : 
