{"id":487989,"date":"2026-03-21T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487989\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:40:12","slug":"milton-keynes-dons-1-3-barnet-warnes-side-suffer-promotion-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487989\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Keynes Dons 1-3 Barnet &#8211; Warne&#8217;s side suffer promotion setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MK Dons suffered a first League Two defeat since New Year&#8217;s Day as Barnet came from behind to claim an away win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jon Mellish gave the Dons an early lead, but goals from Danny Collinge, Kabongo Tshimanga and Idris Kanu saw the Bees pick up a first win in four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home side opened the scoring after seven minutes when goalkeeper Cieran Slicker dropped Aaron Nemane&#8217;s cross and Mellish tapped the ball into an empty net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barnet came close to equalising as Craig MacGillivray denied Ryan Glover and Adam Senior, but they did level in first-half stoppage time when Collinge headed in Mark Shelton&#8217;s corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ex-Dons striker Tshimanga put Barnet ahead after 48 minutes as his deflected strike from the edge of the box beat MacGillivray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visitors extended their lead in the 57th minute when Kanu was first to a rushed clearance to fire home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MK Dons&#8217; misery was compounded with a missed penalty when Aaron Collins was brought down in the box but Slicker saved Rushian Hepburn-Murphy&#8217;s spot-kick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Report supplied by PA Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MK Dons suffered a first League Two defeat since New Year&#8217;s Day as Barnet came from behind to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-487989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}