{"id":525371,"date":"2026-04-11T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525371\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:25:15","slug":"milton-keynes-dons-2-1-bromley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525371\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Keynes Dons 2-1 Bromley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bromley will have to wait to confirm their promotion to League One after losing to 10-man MK Dons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory for the Ravens would have secured promotion to the third tier, but Nathaniel Mendez-Laing and Ben Wiles scored as the hosts won the clash of League Two&#8217;s top two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jon Mellish was sent off for the Dons before Marcus Ifill scored for Bromley, but the home side held on to grab a first win in five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MK Dons scored in the opening minute. Mendez-Laing intercepted a poor pass, charged forward and found the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wiles hit a post from a counter-attack before scoring the Dons&#8217; second after 16 minutes as he turned home Gethin Jones&#8217; cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mellish was shown a second booking in the 67th minute for a scrap with Omar Sowunmi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bromley halved the deficit seven minutes later when Ifill collected a half-cleared corner and thumped the ball home, but in a frantic finale, the visitors could not find an equaliser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Match report supplied by PA Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bromley will have to wait to confirm their promotion to League One after losing to 10-man MK Dons.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-525371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525371","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=525371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}