Fantastic performance from Rovers and a thoroughly deserved victory. In the second half we completely controlled the game and were immense.
The first 45 minutes went according to the script with MK dominating possession and having a number of efforts on goal. Defensively I thought we were a bit sloppy, not the back four but as a team. We did not get tight enough or tackle in the right areas - although the pace at which MK moved the ball made it difficult to tackle - and got pushed far too deep. Having said that, we kept our shape well and filled in space, and MK only had one really clear opportunity, which Powell put over from ten yards.
At half time it was clear we made a tactical change, as we pressed twenty yards higher up the pitch in the second half, with Wallace and Koumas getting up in support of Cassidy and hounding their centre halves every time they tried to play out from the back. As a result, they kept punting it long, we picked up the pieces and controlled the midfield. They say fortune favours the brave, so full marks to the manager and players for such a positive second half display, when we could easily have sat back and hoped to nick a point.
The midfield trio of Wallace, Koumas and Jennings were superb in the second half, as was Kennedy out wide. In the second half Wallace really drove us forward and played as well as I have ever seen him play. My men of the match, however, would be Taylor and Cassidy: a fantastic block by Ash on one of MK's rare forays forward in the second half saved a certain goal and Jake was excellent in the lone striker role, strong, hard working and also did really well to set up Lowey for the winner (just proves that the two of them can link up). Lowe played wide right, but played intelligently to run the channels and get into the box when we were in possession.
The feeling when Lowey slotted home the winner was one of the best I have had as a Rovers fan in a long time, and our first goal at Stadium MK certainly came at the perfect moment.