Michael Flynn said that Swindon Town turned in a "flat" performance as they were defeated 3-2 by Milton Keynes Dons.

Max Dean gave the hosts the lead at the break after he rifled home a finish across Murphy Mahoney, before Jake Young curled in a superb equaliser.

But Town were then caught on the counter and Warren O'Hora slotted home before Alex Gilbey had his cutback deflect in off George McEachran.

Swindon did get a goal back in stoppage time as Frazer Blake-Tracy headed in from close range, but that was too little too late for Town to get anything from the game.

Flynn believed that outside of a brief spell in the second half, his Swindon side failed to find a rhythm and did not play with the speed that he had wanted them to use.

Defeat means that it is now six games in a row on the road that Swindon have failed to take three points and they have just one win in their last six League Two matches.

He said: "We were flat, we were too slow, and the tempo was not there.

"In the second half, we had a go, but again we conceded poor goals and overall it was a disappointing afternoon, I am not going to lie.

"That hurt us today, we had that tempo on Tuesday even though we lost and today we only lost by the odd goal, but we were nowhere near today.

"We set triggers to press, but when that first trigger doesn't release it makes it hard for everybody else.

"I thought that we showed them too much respect, I would say.

"I thought that we played better in the second half, when the game went on we made an early change to try and put Tyrese [Shade] at left-back to have more pace and put Young on.

"It worked and we looked better, but again we have gone and shot ourselves in the foot by giving two poor goals away."

Flynn said that he looked to change up his formation for the game in the absence of Tom Brewitt and Dan Kemp, but the alteration did not pay off.

For the first time this season, Town began playing a 442 diamond rather than a 352 but that formation did not prove to be as effective as Flynn had envisioned.

He said: "I have changed it today to try and surprise them and freshen things up a little bit and play a little bit differently away from home.

"Did it work? I thought not really. I thought we were better in the second half, but again it was the same players on there.

"We thought it was going to be a little bit more physically demanding than it was today.

"That is why we put Frazer [Blake-Tracy] there with Tom [Clayton] coming back in, but he got booked and we thought Frazer would deal with Dean better in the one-on-one situation.

"It was easier for Clayton to build himself into the game from left-back today."