Wigan Athletic loanee Jon Mellish spoke after MK Dons’ 1-0 win over Colchester

Defender Jon Mellish admitted it took longer for MK Dons to click on the field than expected, but now everyone is starting to see it.

Paul Warne’s side picked up their fourth win in a row on Wednesday night when they saw off Colchester United 1-0 at Stadium MK to tighten their grip on second place in League Two, extending their unbeaten run to 14 games now with just eight matches remaining.

Without defeat since New Year’s Day, Mellish now feels he and his team-mates have found the formula to being the prospect many anticipated them to be at the start of the season, and will continue to motor on in the remaining few weeks.

“It has clicked properly now,” said the Wigan loanee. “It took longer than we wanted it to to get going but it has always been there. We’ve got a great squad, we’ve got a lot of belief and we go into every game thinking we’re going to win.

“Things have changed in the last few weeks, we look like we’re going to see games out properly. We highlighted that we were 13 games unbeaten, but in two of those games, we were 2-0 up and ended up drawing 2-2. We’re putting in proper performances now, we’re not really conceding a lot of goals, and we’re not looking like we’re going to either.

“As a team, we’re defending a lot better now, we’re seeing games out and we’ve taken that nervousness out. The back three are heading everything away, Craig is pulling off good saves so we’re all coming together and fighting for each other.

“We’re not really bothered by other results, we’re just taking care of ourselves.”

Mellish had a great chance to open the scoring at Stadium MK with a fierce volley which was well saved by U’s keeper Matt Macey. But the stopper would be unlucky to concede when Aaron Collins’ close-range effort came off the post, hitting him and rolling in for the only goal of the game.

Mellish continued: “You take those sorts of goals. Colchester came here and sat back, it was hard to break them down so it needed a bit of luck like that. We were patient, persistent and we got the reward in the end.

“It’s just about winning at the moment. It wasn’t a classic, we dug in in the second-half but if we need to put in those sort of performances. It has been a hard two weeks, but it has been a good one because we’ve won all of the games. We’re really happy, we’ve just got to keep winning.”