Paul Warne feels MK Dons threw away two points in draw at Chesterfield

MK Dons head coach Paul Warne felt his side should have held on to beat Chesterfield after having to settle for a point in a 1-1 draw.

Rushian Hepburn-Murphy gave the visitors a first-half lead before Tom Naylor levelled in the 86th minute with a near-post header.

Warne said: “A point is better than no points, obviously. You’ve got to stop the rot, although I don’t really think it’s a rot.

“I think we’d done well first half, played really well. We were good going forward but just not good enough. That’s my truth. I just didn’t think we were crisp enough in the final third.

“There wasn’t intensity to our play. When you’re on top, I just think you need to score and ideally score another one and we didn’t.

“We got in really good positions where we should come out with something. I was just disappointed we didn’t get the second goal. I think the second half was the same.

“The longer the game went on and they had to throw everything at us, the honest truth is we weren’t strong enough to withstand it. That’s what’s disappointing.

“It feels like we’ve thrown away two points, which is heartbreaking.

“I thought the game as a whole was okay. But we just lacked a little bit of quality, which we were desperate to get in.”

Chesterfield coach Gary Roberts felt his side deserved at least a point.

He said: “I thought it was a good point in the end after going one-nil down.

“We thought it was a slice of luck for them. They got a bit of a ricochet. At the minute the ricochets are going in the other team’s favour.

“I didn’t think they really threatened the goal up until then. It was their first shot on goal and it’s gone in.

“I thought we were a little bit flat in the first half. We couldn’t really get the momentum going in the game.

“In the second half I thought we were much stronger. We affected their back-line a lot more.

“We were by far the better team in the second half. I thought we deserved a minimum of a point.

“We pride ourselves on starting quick and trying to put teams on the back foot but for some reason we started a little bit slow.

“We finished the game ever so well and at times they were hanging on.”