Head coach Paul Warne spoke after MK Dons’ 1-1 draw with Oldham on Easter Monday

MK Dons’ promotion hopes remain in their hands with four games to go despite dropping points again on Monday, but Paul Warne is remaining calm about the whole thing.

Michael Fondop’s 84th minute header secured Oldham a share of the spoils at Boundary Park on Easter Monday - a result Warne felt was probably fair - despite his side leading for the best part of an hour on his old stomping ground.

Warne, who made 100 appearances for the Latics in his playing days, has seen his side now pick up just two points from a possible 12 in recent weeks, but they remain second in the table, looking over their shoulders at the chasing pack heading into the final month.

And despite the lack of points of late, others around them have suffered similar fates, leaving Warne with a relatively calm disposition.

“Weirdly, I’m not that frustrated,” he said at Boundary Park. “I’m quite long in the tooth now, I would have been more frustrated in my 20s and 30s.

“I’ve never had a promotion that wasn’t down to the final day, and people aren’t throwing rose petals at our feet to let us go and win the title.

“Every game is a battle, and apart from the Barnet game, we’ve not done a lot wrong. I’m not stressed about it, I think we’re a good team and I’m pretty calm.

“It’s two games in a row where they’ve performed well but only got two points from it. Sometimes you can play horrifically and get three, that’s just football. At this time of year, anything away from home is an important point.”

In an entertaining game, Dons led through Marvin Ekpiteta’s fifth goal of the season on the half-hour, when he headed home Curtis Nelson’s cross at the back post. The in-form Latics had won nine of their previous 11 games heading into the game, but neither side created a vast amount of chances, with defences on top for the most part.

Fondop’s ninth goal of the season though came with six minutes to go, one of two gilt-edged efforts on target all afternoon.

Warne said: “I think I’m happy with a point, I think over the course of the game it’s a fair result. However, when there’s not long left on the clock, and it felt like they had run out of ideas, I didn’t think they were going to create anything else. We were tired, both teams were, we weren’t able to stop the cross and it was a powerful header, which it needed to be to beat Craig (MacGillivray) today.

“With results elsewhere, I honestly think it’s a point gained because out of all the fixtures today, we had the hardest one in the top six. For us to come away with a point, to still be second and for it to still be in our hands, we’re pleased. It felt like a play-off game, do not lose but both teams were trying to win it.”