By Zhen-Kuang Goh

AFC Wimbledon 0-2 Oxford United

AFC Wimbledon were condemned to their sixth consecutive match without a win after a home defeat by Oxford United.

The result sent their opposition top of the League Two table but sees the Dons winless since a 3–1 win over Burton seven league games ago on September 21.

The unwanted winless streak matches Wimbledon's worst spell of football under manager Neal Ardley's charge after a similar run last season.

The hosts suffered a nightmare start when James Constable turned in an Asa Hall cross on five minutes.

Oxford then had two strong penalty shouts turned down by referee Dean Whitestone as the first half progressed.

Both times Sean Rigg made jinking runs towards the Dons area, only to appear to be hauled down, but Whitestone was equally unmoved on both occasions.

Wimbledon emerged from the break more positive, with Charlie Strutton forcing Oxford's Ryan Clarke into a point-blank save within 10 minutes of the restart.

Referee Whitestone then controversially penalised AFC Wimbledon at an attacking throw in, won by George Porter after a right-wing run, when a second ball appeared on the pitch and a drop ball was awarded.

With tempers flaring, Dons defender Rhys Weston then squared up to team-mate Sammy Moore after a defensive miscommunication as Wimbledon struggled to keep possession of the ball.

When they did attack, the hosts tended to threaten, with substitute Kevin Sainte-Luce forcing Clarke to come out and smother the ball at his feet and cover the loose ball before Luke Moore could reach the rebound.

The visitors did finally win a penalty 10 minutes from time when Weston was adjudged to have brought substitute Deane Smalley down in the box despite protests that he had been pushed earlier in the move.

Smalley brushed himself off and stepped up to send Ross Worner the wrong way from the spot.

While Wimbledon continued to search for a consolation goal, they found the Oxford defence resolute and impregnable, ably let by the on-song Clarke.

And as the time wound down, so did the numbers of Wimbledon faithful, with many of the 4,000-strong home crowd piling out of Kingsmeadow before the final whistle.

DONS: Worner, Fuller, Kennedy, S Moore, Frampton, Weston, Francomb (Sainte-Luce 62), Sweeney (Pell 76), Smith, Strutton (L Moore 62), Porter.

Subs not used: Brown, Antwi, Fenlon, Midson.