MK Dons head coach Paul Warne spoke after his side’s 2-2 draw with Tranmere Rovers

“That was a proper match,” said Paul Warne after MK Dons came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with Tranmere Rovers on Saturday.

In a game that had just about everything, Dons trailed by a Charlie Whitaker brace at half-time before a manic four minutes in the second-half which saw them score twice, either side of a Jonathan Leko red card.

An end-to-end game which saw both sides go hammer and tongues, particularly in the closing stages when Kane Thompson-Sommers had netted Dons’ 82nd minute equaliser, Warne felt his side looked more like what he wants - a far cry from his emotion a week earlier after their 2-0 win over Salford City.

“I’m really proud of them today,” said Warne. “This is why people go to live sport - of course it can be horrific, you can come or thinking it was amazing with every emotion going. We went down to 10 men, we didn’t go defensive and we were still trying to win it, which has been our aim since we first came here.

“That’s the most alive I’ve felt at a final whistle for a long time.

“Weirdly, I left the stadium last week with a bit of anxiety but this week I don’t. Psychologically, we’ve shown we’re not a soft group, we never give in which is a good attribute to have.

“I don’t think we deserved to go in 2-0 down at half-time. We made two mistakes, which I can’t dispute, but our box-to-box play was good, we just didn’t have the cutting edge.

“At half-time, I told them I was proud of how they were playing, I felt they were doing alright, we just didn’t have a goal to match our play.

“I wasn’t sure the goal was coming, so we made changes and got the goals, and I honestly thought we were going to win it.”