Dons goalkeeper David Martin spoke to his club's official website ahead of his side's League One match against the Cumbrians at stadium:mk tomorrow, Martin hoping to break his clean sheet record from last season :
"We're at 12 clean sheets and it was 16 in all competitions last year, hopefully in the next five or six games we can get past that. It has been going well, the back four in front of me, even though it's changed quite a lot this year, have been superb.
"I think we have done pretty well in both ends of the pitch this year, the players that have come in have really strengthened us with Darren Potter in the middle, Dean Bowditch and Charlie MacDonald have come in and done really well so we're all happy at the moment.
"I watch the Football League Show to see the goals going in and haven't really seen that many goals going in against Carlisle so they must be doing something right. It's up to us to look at their team and see what their strengths are and combat that."
In team news for the home side tomorrow, they have doubts over the participation of three of their players, with two of them, in striker and joint top scorer Charlie MacDonald and centre-half Gary MacKenzie not having trained this week. MacDonald though is more likely to feature than MacKenzie, with the former probable to return after missing last week’s 1-1 FA Cup draw against QPR with a knee injury, while the latter will undergo a fitness test before the match.
Meanwhile winger Anthony McNamee, who scored a wonder goal against Carlisle for Wycombe at Brunton Park before Christmas, has returned to stadium:mk from his loan spell at Adams Park only to now be suffering with a flu bug. Also coming back to Buckinghamshire last week was Harry Milton, but the 18-year old midfielder, who was on loan at Isthmian League Premier Division side Aveley, is unlikely to feature in the Dons matchday sixteen. The final bit of temporary transfer news for the home side being that frontman Charlie Collins, 20, today signed for League Two outfit Aldershot Town on loan for a month.
The referee for tomorrow's match is Darren Sheldrake from East Molesey in Surrey and he will be assisted down the lines by one man in Matt Foley from Rotherhithe in south London and one woman in Slovakian native Alexandra Ihringova, who is now based in Telford, Shropshire . Meanwhile the fourth official is Richard Kendall from Luton.