MK Dons Head Coach Scott Lindsey was happy with his team’s recovery as they beat Swindon Town 3-1 despite falling behind after less than 20 seconds.

Harry Smith had put the visitors in front in quick time, but Kane Thompson-Sommers, MJ Williams and Alex Gilbey scored the goals to turn the game in MK Dons’ favour, delivering for the Dons a fourth straight win in League Two.

Reflecting after the game, Lindsey voice his delight that his side picked up the three points.

He said, “Obviously it was a bad start, I kind of wasn’t worried because when you concede in the first minute, obviously I’m not happy about it but I didn’t want to rant and rave about it and show a negative energy on the sideline because I think it can spill out onto the pitch. So I remained seated for a while and calm and we played so, so well in that first half.

“It’s the best we’ve played since I’ve been here. I thought we were outstanding. We rightly deserved the goal before half-time and then second half, you know, we scored some good goals but I didn’t think we played as well. I thought we could’ve controlled and dominated the ball a little bit more.

“But it’s definitely a good feeling for sure. As soon as we debriefed on Tuesday from obviously the FA Cup game, there was a line drawn really quickly and we focused that we’d just won the last 3 league games. It’s not a bad place to be at the moment so we’re alright and of course winning today has kickstarted that again.”

Lindsey said that in a paradoxical way, conceding early helped focus the team as they stayed calm and responded to the early surprise.

He said, “I think because it was so early, if you’re going to concede, concede then as crazy as it may seem. I think there was only 20 seconds on the clock and it’s madness to even think that. They punt the ball down the pitch, big Harry Smith wins the first header, they put it wide, cross it and Smith scores in 20 seconds. But we’ve got 94 minutes or whatever it was to play and I had to remain calm. I could’ve quite easily showed a negative energy, which I don’t want to do, but the players responded brilliantly.”

The three goals were of particular delight to Lindsey thanks to them coming from sources that he said the team worked on.

He said, “The pleasing thing for me is all three goals are stuff we’ve worked on. Two from corners, and the staff here work extremely hard on corners so it was two corners, and the goal where Aaron Nemane crossed it, he played it with his number 10, who was Callum Hendry I believe and Callum played it down the side. We work on that action so much so I was pleased with the goals.”

The result lifted MK Dons to a season high position of sixth in the League Two table, and Lindsey said it was showing the work the team were displaying to try and meet their goals of finishing in the promotion places at the end of the season.

He said, “Our target is to win every game and I’m not going to make any bones about it. Will we win every game? Probably not, but it’s what we want to achieve. Promotion this year – I’ve not hid behind that, that’s what we want. Will we do it? I hope so. The effort the players are putting in surely deserves to be where we are. I think I was 19th when I came into the job and now we’re 5th or 6th, so it’s great.”