James Shea has revealed AFC Wimbledon held a training ground inquest into their inability to defend set-pieces.

The Dons have been sloppy at defending corners and free-kicks so far this season and would find themselves higher than 13th in League Two without these errors.

But an dogged defensive display helped secure a 2-0 victory over Barnet at Kingsmeadow on Saturday and Shea attributes the improvement to the clear-the-air-talks at their training base last week.

“We had a chat on Thursday and a lot of the players had their say because we had been conceding goals from set-pieces,” he told the club’s official website.

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“That’s obviously something we don’t want to be doing. I think it showed on Saturday because we put it right.

“We have played extremely well lately and we were not getting what we deserved.

“Hopefully, it’s onwards and upwards for us now. We are always going to create chances with the way that we play and we just have to start taking a few more of them.”

Three points against the Bees means it is now just one defeat from eight league games for Neal Ardley’s troops.

Incredibly, despite that excellent run, Shea’s shut-out at Kingsmeadow was his first clean sheet of the season.

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And it is a season which the goalkeeper freely admits has been much tougher than his debut campaign after making a step up in class from Ryman Premier level.

“Last season everything went well for me. Nothing went wrong last season, but this season has been different. Hopefully, I can kick-on now and just get better and better.

“Robbo [Paul Robinson] has been brilliant whoever he has played alongside.

“Semi [Ajayi] has come in and he has been brilliant in the last two games. Those two can have a good partnership. They (Barnet) were bombarding us, but I thought we dealt with everything well.

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