Brown after Dons reaction following soul-destroying defeat (From Your Local Guardian)

Brown after Dons reaction following soul-destroying defeat

3:01pm Thursday 15th December 2011 in AFC Wimbledon By Nick Gentry

AFC Wimbledon manager Terry Brown is after a reaction from his players after labelling his side’s 2-0 defeat to Accrington Stanley as 'soul destroying'.

The Kingsmeadow club conceded two soft goals early on to become Stanley’s first victims on the road this season, to Brown’s disgust.

“We started brightly, but they made one run down the wing, put a ball across the near post – which was disappointing – and they scored a carbon copy of it minutes later,” he said.

“I would have liked to have said that we learned from the first one, but we didn’t.

“It was a very disappointing performance and one that we’d worked hard at trying to get right. The performance was far from all right.

“We didn’t test their goalkeeper and after going 2-0 down we never really looked like breaking them down.

“We’ve got to address that with the hardest month of the year coming up.

“We need to go into the Christmas period off the back of a good performance and that is what I will be looking for on Saturday.”

The Dons travel to Rotherham United at the weekend with Brown expecting a difficult fixture after some constructive time on the training ground.

He admitted: “It is certainly going to be tough. They’re on a good run of form, right up near the top and we need to get something out of the game.

“It is just a case of trying to pick the best side I possibly can, to get something.”