Neal Ardley was warned off signing Ade Akinfenwa - the Dons boss is glad he didn't listen.
Akinfenwa repaid the faith by scoring for the third time in five days to hand AFC Wimbledon a 1-0 League Two win over Morecambe.
The Dons pressed the visitors and were rewarded when the muscular striker powered home an unstoppable header on 27 minutes to add to his two goals in the 3-0 win over Burton in midweek.
“A lot of people told me that Akinfenwa can't play twice in a week,” Ardley said, chuckling with disbelief.
“They said he won't last the season. But I haven't got a bad word to say about the guy. Today he was immense. He's unplayable – there's no way around him, you want to go one-on-one with him and he's unplayable.”
However, the Dons boss admitted that his side should probably have won by more, having wasted a number of promising chances.
“Probably the only criticism that I had was that we didn't get two or three up when we had our chances. Today was different from Tuesday, we knew that would be the case and we needed to stay in the game and do all the hard work that League Two demands – we probably hadn't done that earlier in the season.
“I'd be more disappointed we you didn't look like scoring, but the only game we've been shut out of was at Accrington and we'd had a week of working on defensive mentality prior to that.
“Every other game we've had a threat, and I'm delighted with the fact that we look like we can score goals.”
Wimbledon have now kept two successive clean sheets at home against teams above them in the table, and Ardley dedicated the team's good performances to the fans.
“These past few seasons our home form hasn't been great and we probably haven't given them enough to shout about. I'm really pleased that we've given them a good weekend to go home with a smile on their faces.”
Ardley will bring his boys to Wales next week when they face Newport County at Rodney Parade, which he says will be a difficult prospect.
“I can only get the team functioning well and working hard. We're not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but we're working really hard to get the team to do what will be really effective in the games,” he said.
