MK Dons will test us tomorrow, and it will be particularly interesting to see what U’s side runs out onto the pitch at Stadium:MK.

There will be changes in the back four, with central defender Magnus Okuonghae our latest casualty. Magnus went down in a challenge against Coventry, and stayed down. Initially Magnus was in little pain, and I don’t think he thought that it was a serious injury.

When the stretcher bearers appeared, it became apparent that it was a significant injury.

There was little physical contact in the challenge with Madine, so Magnus’ ruptured Achilles tendon goes down as a bit of a freak injury, just like Tosin Olufemi’s similar injury in pre-season.

Will Packwood has been recruited from Birmingham as a probable straight replacement.

Elsewhere on the pitch, there is a healthy number options available.

In midfield the challenge is to get the right attacking creativity /defensive solidity from the current incumbents, David Fox, currently showing his passing skills sitting deep, and the rotating Moncur and Gilbey further forward.

Integrating Sammie Szmodics or Craig Eastmond when they are introduced adds a twist. Gavin Massey is a wild card playing centrally, so there is no lack of choice or competition in the middle.

Up front, we have generally looked most incisive late in games, with Rhys Healey on the pitch, bearing in mind he arrived as an alternative to Freddie Sears, rather than to play alongside him. Macauley Bonne is pushing his case for inclusion, desperate for game time.

Kemar Roofe is in the reckoning, raiding dangerously when introduced as a substitute.

So let no one say team selection is a piece of cake! It’s a puzzle in three dimensions, with no right and no wrong answers because football is never an exact science. Not wishing to tempt fate tomorrow, but we know what to expect from a Karl Robinson side and we have looked a better side away from home recently.

Loanee left back Cole Kpekawa impressed on his debut, performing just like a left-footed Greg Halford. Maybe quicker off the mark than Halford, and quicker on the turn, which has always been Greg’s weakness.

Kpekawa rampaged round the outside last week with his first two or three paces and his body strength carrying him into dangerous positions several times in the first half.

We also saw some full-blooded and confident tackling, even in high risk situations. Coventry managed to bottle him up and show him inside in the last 30 minutes, at a time after Coventry’s goal when we were generally struggling to play cohesive football, but as debuts go, it was a thriller.

There was a funny moment in the first half when Cole prepared to take a throw in an attacking position.

My mind went back to Greg Halford’s debut against Luton Town at Layer Road when he was handed the ball for a throw-in in front of Terrace Four.

Greg took two steps back and hurled a massive throw more or less to the far post. There was an audible gasp around the ground, as we have never seen anything like it before or since. Sorry to report that by comparison, Kpekawa’s throw was of the modest variety!