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Paul Warne says there will be no knee-jerk reaction as they search for their first league win, but they do need to find some consistency.

"We've been in every game, which I expect us to be. I expect us to win virtually every game we play in - that's not arrogance, I see how good the players are," Warne told BBC Three Counties Radio.

"I know we've gone up a level, but we haven't gone from League Two to the Champions League. I do feel like we've been better than our points tally, but the points tally doesn't lie.

"I feel a bit sorry for the fans that they haven't seen the team properly settled yet. I don't feel we're that far away from giving someone a good cracking."

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Wimbledon have kept back-to-back clean sheets in League One and have yet to concede a goal at home in three matches, though they have scored only twice to earn their seven points at Plough Lane.

They have also kept four straight clean sheets against MK, enjoying home wins in League Two in 2023-24 and 2024-25, winning 2-0 at MK in the FA Cup in November 2024 and drawing 0-0 at Milton Keynes in the last meeting in January 2025.

Before that run, however, Wimbledon had gone winless in nine games against MK, losing six of them, keeping a single clean sheet and scoring only six times in total.

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MK Dons boss Paul Warne insists he is not worrying about losing his job, despite a slow start to life in League One following promotion.

MK have failed to win any of their opening six league matches, drawing five of them, and losing at Wigan.

"If we lost 10 matches on the run and you said to me 'Are you worried about your job?' I'd say 'No'," Warne told BBC Three Counties Radio.

"I'm never worried about my job. Not from an arrogant point of view. I worry about enough things not to also worry about that.

"I always pick the team as if it's the last team I'm going to pick. I don't worry about consequence, upsetting 'him or him'.

"I do feel a lot of it is at my door because we have changed the system, we have changed the players around quite a bit."

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• AFC Wimbledon are unbeaten across their past three league games against MK Dons (W2 D1), keeping a clean sheet in each - more wins and clean sheets than across their prior 10 EFL meetings combined.
• After remaining unbeaten across their nine league matches away to London sides between April 2017 and September 2023 (W6 D3), MK Dons have since lost three of their past five (D2).
• No side in League One this season has kept more clean sheets than AFC Wimbledon (4, level with Bradford), with this just the second time the Dons have kept four across their opening six EFL matches of a campaign after 2024-25.
• MK Dons have failed to win any of their opening six league matches this season (D5 L1), only once before failing to win their opening seven in an EFL campaign (2005-06).

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After failing to score in their opening two matches, Wimbledon have won three of their past four league games and could jump into the automatic promotion places with a third-straight victory tonight.

Those wins have come against the bottom three sides, however, and they have taken one point from three games against teams not in the relegation zone, scoring just once and conceding seven.

MK are yet to win this season following their promotion from League Two and are only out of the drop-zone on goal difference.

After losing in the EFL Cup first round at Norwich they drew their opening three games of the season against Oxford, Huddersfield and Leicester.

They however lost at lowly Wigan and drew with fellow strugglers Wycombe and Peterborough in their past two games.

What Paul Warne would give to pick up a first win of the campaign tonight.

First things first, this is a difficult fixture for a lot of people, we understand that.

If you need a little history lesson before we get going, here's one BBC Sport put together before the FA Cup meeting between the two sides in November 2024.

You can also click here to read an emotive article on the rivalry.

Right, on with the football...

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Good evening.

Tonight kicks-off four days of EFL action, featuring some of the most hotly anticipated games on the calendar.

Millwall host West Ham on Saturday for the first time in more than 14 years while Wolves and West Brom face off on Sunday as the age-old Black Country rivalry resumes.

But first we have the most unique rivalry in British football, a League One clash under the lights between AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons, two clubs bonded by the most controversial of histories.

Let's bring you up to speed...