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Stadium MK
stadium:mk - Milton Keynes Dons
MK Dons
0-1
Leeds United
Saturday 26 September 2009
League One
Attendance: 16,713
W W L W W
Recent record
W D W W W
MK DONS
Manager
Paul Ince
card
LEEDS UNITED
Starting XI
Starting XI

League Stats

Total League record up to this game: This was League game number 289
made up of:
Level 1: 0 (0%)
 
Level 2: 46 (15.92%)
Level 3: 149 (51.56%)
League 1 / Div 3: 149 
Level 4: 94 (32.53%)
PWDL FAGDG.AvgWin %
289 117 67 105 393 375 18 1.05 40.48%
League games vs Leeds United: P3 W1 D0 L2
League games played at this ground: 52 games
Total League record up to this game: This was League game number 3459
made up of:
Level 1: 2,063 (59.64%)
Premier League: 468  Division 1: 1,595 
Level 2: 1,290 (37.29%)
Level 3: 106 (3.06%)
League 1 / Div 3: 106 
Level 4: 0 (0%)
PWDL FAGDG.AvgWin %
3459 1442 892 1125 5139 4504 635 1.14 41.69%
League games vs MK Dons: P3 W2 D0 L1
League games played at this ground: 2 games
2009
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DT92 Members at this game:

jimthepotman
17

The club played at their temporary home at the National Hockey Stadium for three seasons before moving to their purpose built stadium in the Denbigh district of town. stadium:mk was designed by Populous, who had also designed Wembley and Emirates Stadiums and constructed by Buckingham Group Contracting at a cost of £50m. The stadium currently holds 22,000 with the top tier still unused around three sides which would add an extra 10,000 to capacity. The ground is bowl shaped with a large gap in between the roof and the top tier which produces a lot more natural light. The main West Stand differs, having an added shelf type tier with two rows of executive boxes at the top running the full length of the stand. There’s a video scoreboard at the North Stand, which is also allocated to away supporters. The East Stand is the only section with text picked out amongst the black seats, with MK (big red dot) DONS picked out in white. The South Stand is known as The Cowshed, where the main Dons vocal support gather. I have to mention the excellent backing they gave their team throughout the game. An injury time winner from Robert Snodgrass denied MK Dons a well earned point after playing the whole of the second half with 10-men. The goal came in the second minute of stoppage time. A free kick wide left was swung in from Andy Robinson who found Snodgrass unmarked, making no mistake with a strong header past Gueret. An even first half saw the Dons creating some good openings, striker Aaron Wilbraham failed to capitalise after good play from Chadwick and Lewington setting up the striker on three separate occasions. Leeds had chances of their own, especially just before the interval with Snodgrass shooting wide after a Leeds counter attack and Kisnorbo sending a free header over the crossbar. An unnecessary challenge from Jason Puncheon on the stroke of half time, lunging in with a high footed tackle on Michael Doyle, gave referee Andy D’Urso no choice but to produce a red card. Leeds failed to capitalise on the extra man advantage, the Dons battled well restricting the visitors to half chances from Beckford and Grella, while Leven went close for the home side with an ambitious volley from 25 yards. Just as it looked like the Dons had earned a battling draw, they suffered the heartbreak of that last minute strike, which sent the 4,000 plus away following back to Yorkshire happy to see their side remain top of the pile in League One.