MK Dons need four wins to have title chance - Warne
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MK Dons boss Paul Warne believes they will have to win all four remaining games to have any chance of pipping Bromley to the League Two title.
Warne's second-placed side are at home to the leaders in a Saturday lunchtime kick-off, having failed to win any of their last four games.
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They trail the Kent side by seven points and defeat would end their hopes of going up as champions, something Warne has never done in previous promotions with Rotherham United and Derby County.
"Realistically, the chances of us taking the title off them are a lot slimmer than they were four weeks ago," Warne told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"Could we still do it? Of course, but we'd have to win all four and in this cauldron of pressure - which doesn't really exist, it's just in your head - it is more difficult to win back-to-back games.
"Promotion has always been our aim - it's the cake, the cherry is the title. If we can get the title, which I've never had as a player or manager or coach before, that would be amazing, but that will look after itself.
"If we win our four games we need other teams to join the party. We play Bromley at the weekend, if we win, their next game is Thursday at home to (fourth-placed) Cambridge. If Cambridge beat them, all of a sudden you're looking a lot smarter."
The Dons - who were relegated from League One in 2023 - have drawn their last two games following back-to-back defeats by Barnet and Salford City.
And overall, Warne said he had been satisfied with their overall performances, if not the results.
"We weren't great against Barnet, I really liked us against Barrow - we just didn't score; the Salford game wasn't really a game of football, it was a game of murderball, and then against Oldham I thought out of possession we were really good, limited them to two shots outside the box and one header.
"I don't actually think there's a lot wrong. We go into the game at the weekend, we win that, we're back on track but it isn't an ideal time to drop points, no time is, but a point away at Oldham is a good point. There's no disputing that."
He continued: "We've been fortunate weirdly that in these four games, we haven't won one and we're still in second but at the start of the season, if I positively spin it, if you'd offered me second with four games to go and it's in our hands, I'd have took it, 100%."
Following the Bromley game, MK Dons are away to Crewe, then home to Tranmere Rovers before ending with a trip to Fleetwood Town.
Warne added: "I think it will go down to the last game of the season and while it's still in our hands, we're still in a good place and I do know that every team below us would change places with us.
"If you look at the top three teams that got promoted last year, automatic from this league, I think it was only Donny [Doncaster] that finished with a real (head of) steam. It is a difficult time to win."