The Bromley boss felt his side let themselves down in the first-half at Stadium MK

Andy Woodman admitted he could have changed his whole team at half-time after Bromley fell 2-0 down to MK Dons on Saturday.

Nathaniel Mendez-Laing scored after just 35 seconds to open the scoring against the league leaders before Ben Wiles made it 2-0 on 17 minutes. Dons though had plenty of chances to put the game to bed long before the break, with Wiles hitting the post, while Gethin Jones and Callum Paterson both coming close to further extending the lead.

Woodman made four changes to his side at the break and a formation change too, admitting he was throwing caution to the wind after being distinctly second-best to Paul Warne’s side.

“I could’ve made ten changes at half-time,” he said. “We had to throw caution to the wind to see if we could come up with something and we did.

“We looked a lot better second-half. It’s easy to play when you’re 2-0 down though, you have to do all that horrible stuff when you’re at 0-0 and we didn’t do that.

“It was a disaster, we gifted them a goal after 30 seconds and then we gifted them another goal. After that, they looked like a really good team. They could have been four or five up to be honest, we were all over the place. That happens, especially with a start like that. And it raised this place, it was the worst possible start we could’ve had.

“In the second-half, we knew if we got a goal there would be nerves around the place, and there was. Then their keeper makes an unbelievable save which stops us getting an equaliser.”

Bromley could have secured automatic promotion with a win, and Notts County’s heavy defeat to Cambridge later in the day, but with three games to go, Woodman says their fate remains firmly in their hands.

He said: “It’s a shame but we have to go again. We’re still top of the table though. There’s still three to play and it’s still in our hands. There is a lot of football to be played.”