MK Dons suffered a 2-1 loss at Barrow in a result that continues their miserable run of form.
Scott Hogan had put the visitors in front at the SO Legal Stadium, but Kian Spence and Kyle Cameron scored the goals to turn the game in the home side’s favour.
Defeat in Lancashire means that the Dons have now lost 9 of their last 13 games, only 2 of which ended in victory. The side from Stadium MK find themselves 15th in the League Two table, with the side currently sitting ten points off a play-off spot.
The game was one of three rescheduled trips north for MK Dons, who’d seen trips to Fleetwood, Barrow and Carlisle all postponed due to bad weather between November and Janaury.
Scott Lindsey named the same side that had been beaten by Bromley at the weekend and things began well enough for the visitors, as MK Dons opened the scoring after eight minutes.
A long ball forward by Dan Crowley released Hogan, who was able to get one-on-one with Barrow goalkeeper Paul Farman and thread a strike past him into the back of the net.
But MK Dons held the lead for all of two minutes, as Spence was first to a half-cleared corner and drilled in a strike that Connal Trueman couldn’t stop from crossing the line.
The visitors nearly re-took the lead through a similar move to the one that had put them in front, but this time, Farman was able to deny Hogan in the one-on-one.
MK Dons looked likelier to make something happen in the rest of the first half, although shots on target proved to be at a premium for the visitors with their best opportunities failing to hit the target.
Home scorer Spence had seen a strike fall narrowly wide during the first half, but the hosts came out of the blocks quicker after the break. They nearly took the lead when Aaron Pressley saw a strike kept out by Trueman.
A goal would come Barrow’s way just after the hour mark of the contest, as Cameron met Ben Whitfield’s cross and converted from close range.
MK Dons spurned an opportunity to equalise shortly after, when Alex Gilbey hit the post before firing the rebound off target when Hogan seemed better place to take advantage of the second opportunity.
Hogan then briefly thought he had struck his second of the night when he headed in Crowley’s cross, only for an offside flag to intervene.
Barrow would have their own third goal chalked off, with Whitfield beating Trueman to score only for a foul in the build-up to be spotted.
But MK Dons ran out of road, losing out in the North West as their difficult start to 2025 continues.
The Dons will be chasing just a third win of the New Year with another trip north on Saturday, as they head to struggling Tranmere Rovers.