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Crawley embarrass MK Dons with record breaking playoff win to reach Wembley for first time ever

Crawley Town embarrass MK Dons with a record breaking playoff win to reach Wembley for the first time ever in their history.

Crawley once again put in a dominate display, securing a 5-1 victory in the League Two playoff semi final second leg at Stadium MK, with an impressive 8-1 win on aggregate.

Milton Keynes Dons’ semi-final humbling means they have now competed in the playoffs six times without reaching a final.

Scott Lindsey’s team had already established a 3-0 lead in the first leg, and they wasted no time extending it to 5-0 within the first half-hour of the second leg through Jay Williams and Danilo Orsi.

Although Max Dean managed to pull one back for MK Dons, Orsi quickly restored Crawley’s two-goal lead with the help of Klaidi Lolos and Liam Kelly.

Dean had his penalty saved by Crawley keeper Corey Addai, and shortly after, Jack Roles, who had just hit the left-hand post, came off the bench and smashed in a fourth goal.

In the second half, Orsi sealed his hat-trick by converting a cross from Ronan Darcy in stoppage time, putting the finishing touch on a completely one-sided match.

MK Dons head coach Mike Williamson told Sky Sports:

“We just ran out of steam in terms of the season, the night. I feel for the boys in there because it’s a real, real tough one to take. I’ve had some tough days in football and I think this is up there with the hardest time and defeat.

“Those boys have given everything; I don’t look at it on a one-off occasion, I look at it over the course since we’ve come in and they’ve run their socks off. Even today when we lost our composure and our shape, they still carried on running. For me, that’s going to take them a long way.

“What I know about football is when you’re hurting, you have to react to it and that is just getting your head down and working hard.

“I need to say congratulations to them. I thought they were excellent over both legs. For us, it was another night of what could go wrong did go wrong. The early goal was hard to take, but the boys didn’t change the way they wanted to play in the first half and until we got to the last 20 minutes, it opened up completely and I felt it got away from us.”

MK Dons boss Mike Williamson told BBC Three Counties Radio:

“I think that was probably the hardest football match I’ve ever had to watch.

“We’ve come up short, so there’s a lot for me to digest right now and I’m not going to measure our season since coming in on two games. It’s important to keep perspective. But right now the emotions are very raw and the lads are hurting.

“We’ve got to come back in preseason focused. We have a lot of work to do and we’re prepared to do that.

“We lost our shape and got ragged against a very good team. We’ve got to make sure that we’ve got more than that next year.

“We’re all hurting. The lads have given everything and we’ve come up short – and that’s only going to fuel and motivate us.

“The bigger the fall the harder you want to come back. I’m very confident we can achieve that.”

Crawley manager Scott Lindsey said to Sky Sports:

“I’m really proud. We came into this game really humble and really respectful that we had another task in the shape of MK Dons – who are a very good side. Even though we were 3-0 in front at half time, as it were, we felt we still had a lot to do, so we kept our feet firmly on the ground coming into the game.

“My boys didn’t half perform well tonight – I thought we were outstanding. We scored some great goals, we were aggressive in the press and aggressive with the ball.

“As a manager, you know how football can be – it’s got a nasty habit of kicking you where it hurts, so you never really relax until the final whistle, if I’m honest with you. But I actually enjoyed certainly the last 20 minutes where we were brilliant with the ball. We picked them off, made them run and it was clear to see they got frustrated with that.

“We’ll recover tomorrow and we’ll be back in on Monday and getting to work. We’ll watch Crewe at length and in detail, start putting a gameplan together in the early part of the week and nothing will change with our preparation. We’re really looking forward to it.”

Crawley manager Scott Lindsey speaking to Sky Sports:

“We came into this game really humble and really respectful.

“We kept our feet firmly into the ground. We were outstanding – aggressive with the press, aggressive with the ball. I thought we were brilliant.

“As a manager, you know how football can be. It’s got a habit of kicking you when you’re down so you never relax until that final whistle.

“When I look at all the players we’ve brought in, a lot of them are non-league. Liam Kelly got relegated last season with Rochdale. What a player.

“The players were unbelievable tonight. We will recover tomorrow and be back in on Monday. We will be getting to work, nothing will change with our preparation.

“We are really looking forward to it.”

This is how fans reacted as Crawley embarrass MK Dons with a record breaking 8-1 playoff win to reach Wembley for the first time ever…

@blaine_llew: That’s the straw that will break the camels back gents. That’s an absolute pumping in a play off game. 8 goals against. National league pending

@cockneytaff75: Woke up from my oblivion and chose laughter this morning…. hopefully MK Stealers will carry their frenzy on for one more relegation then slide into an oblivion of their own from which they won’t escape… Winky’s pockets will be off quicker than you can say ‘M1’

@RyanRay74: You owe an huge apology to every single fan that spent money and energy into this godforsaken campaign, you aren’t/weren’t deserving of the support of the fans and in particular @DonsAction tonight. Worst time to be a Dons fan, take that in.

@stevie188: When Crawley beat us at the end of last season to send us down I hated them …. Tonight I salute them …. Hopefully MK can keep falling down into obscurity #rafc

@mikeshipp1971: On behalf of all @AFCWimbledon and real football fans, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Now do us all a favour and go bust.

@TRFCJoeS: WE LOVE YE WOMBLES WE DO, WE LOVE YE WOMBLES WE DO 🎶🎶

@EvanRedworth: Love to see the whole football community laughing at the Franchise

@WrexhamFCFans: I thought you won the league first game of the season lads? 😘

@atfc_chris: The post code for Bromley FC is BR2 9EF.

@OkaFisherITFC: Pic of Max Dean crying please admin👍👍

@abevan87: Not sure what the problem is? Why don’t you just buy a current league one club and move them to Milton Keynes?!??!

@DKDszn: I’d 8 to lose to crawley

@jayr1972: Heart of stone not to laugh 😂😂😂😂😂

@hatters_japan: I’m watching this match, which I recorded, from 9am Japan time. Of course I’m drinking a lot of beer. I’m feeling fine, so you don’t have to encourage me. 🍺🍺🍺

@AmbroseBarnaby: A victory for football after our game today that’s made me smile a little more

@PhilCounty1883: You love to see it. Milton Keynes should fold, start a team at the bottom of the pyramid and earn their place.

@GeorgeHogg93: Couldn’t happen to a nicer club. No one likes the Franchise so, well done Crawley 👏

@Matt__Willcox: Awful, no bottle, naïve tactics, men against boys out there and we were absolutely humiliated, big summer needed. Need a huge effort from you to bring the fans back on board and form that connection again because it’s simply not good enough.

@ZakHayes6: 8-1 in a playoff semi just sums up what a horrendous league it’s been this year. Makes me so annoyed how badly we messed up with the Dawes appointment, massive missed opportunity.

@jordssboi: we’re the worst team in playoff history and over the last two legs we doubled down on that. no player can hold their head high, everyone of them downed tools. 180 minutes of football and I had hope for the first 4, after that complete dross. big clear out coming.

@allan_law7: Get these frauds out the club. Williamson tactical disaster! wtf was that shit. Didn’t even come over at the end and apologise for what we just witnessed. Useless pricks

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