MK Dons boss Paul Warne spoke after his side’s 6-2 win over Burton Albion on Saturday

With most of League One given a watching brief over the international weekend, MK Dons’ emphatic win over Burton Albion might have a lot of teams sitting up and paying attention.

For a second league game in a row, Dons stuck six past their opponents at Stadium MK, with six wins in a row in all competitions, nine in 11 and up into the top ten in the division.

Even without leading scorer Aaron Collins, away on international duty, Dons were still in rampant mood in front of goal with five different scorers on the scoresheet, sending a message to the rest of League One.

Speaking after the win over Burton, Warne said: “We try to win every game but especially today when there’s not been as many fixtures, people will see us winning quite a few now and think ‘oh no, we’ve woken the beast’ and hopefully that continues in the games coming up.

“We’ve got a good team, but I said that when we were second-from-bottom. If I was another team and looking at our results, I’d be thinking that we’ve picked up. You can only beat the team in front of you, and we’ve been doing that for a few weeks, and that’s the pleasing thing for me.”

Despite the one-sided nature of the game, Warne said he wasn’t overly pleased with his side’s first-half performance against the Brewers. Leading thanks to goals from Dan Crowley and Sam Nombe, Dons looked in control but Warne was keen to see more from his side, and he got it with four second-half goals to put the result beyond doubt.

“I didn’t think we moved the ball fast enough in the first-half, I wasn’t overly pleased even though we were 2-0 up,” he continued. “I just felt we had another gear.

“At half-time we showed them a few bits where we could have passed quicker, but we played a bit too safe and predictable - give it to Sam Silvera and hope he’s the best kid at school. But we were comfortable and Burton didn’t have a shot in that first-half.

“It felt, not too easy, that’s a really disrespectful thing to say, but it felt like no-one wanted to take a risk, and I like us taking risks.

“In the second-half, we knew the first goal would be important, and it was. At 3-1, I didn’t think they would come back into it, and then our goals took the game away.

“We did enough to win and that’s all we can do.”