Tyreece Simpson scored his first goal for the club on Tuesday evening at Meadow Lane, after coming into the side as the only change from the goalless stalemate at Carlisle three days prior.
And Danny Cowley has hinted that Samson Tovide is edging closer to a return after training out on the grass in the last couple of weeks, although this weekend’s game may come too soon for the formidable striker.
The Opposition
Our opponents this weekend are on an eleven-game unbeaten run – the longest active run in League Two as they look to gain promotion back to the third tier.
The Dons played out a goalless draw on the road at Fleetwood Town on Tuesday evening, keeping their fifth clean sheet in a row and extending their tally to a league-best seventeen with former U’s loanee Owen Goodman between the sticks.
“We really had to work for the point, and I think it might prove to be a good point. Most teams, with the way that the game went, would leave here with nothing. It was a tough task to come away, and not play well – to still come away with a point, we have to be pleased with that.”
Chasing promotion to League One, AFC Wimbledon sit second in the standings, two points clear of fourth place Notts County, but seven behind league leaders Walsall.
They have the league’s top scorer within their squad in the shape of Matt Stevens, who has hit sixteen goals in thirty-one games this season, while they have conceded the fewest – letting in just twenty goals, eight fewer than the next best (Bradford City).
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