Wycombe Wanderers captain Joe Jacobson believes that his side’s 2-0 advantage over MK in the play-off semi-finals going into the second leg is a ‘dangerous lead’ to have.
The Chairboys will travel to Stadium: MK on May 8, three days after goals from Ryan Tafazolli and Sam Vokes gave Gareth Ainsworth’s men a two-goal cushion against their Buckinghamshire rivals.
However, the Welshman has insisted that he and the club will not take anything for granted when the visit north Buckinghamshire on Sunday.
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He said: “It’s a dangerous lead to have but you’d rather have a two-goal advantage than being behind.
“We all know that football can change really quickly as it just takes a second to score a goal, so they’ll be plenty of time to score two, three or even four goals as they’ve done that in the past.
“It is nice to have the lead, but, we’ve got a lot of work to do.
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“They are a very good team and I wouldn’t say we were lucky, but it took us a little while to get into the game, but after that I thought the game plan worked really well and in the end, we deserved the win.”
Overturning a 2-0 goal lead in a League One play-off semi-final is a hard task but not impossible
The most notable instance of this happening was in May 2007 when Yeovil Town and Nottingham Forest met in the competition.
Forest gained a 2-0 lead from the first semi-final match, but amazingly lost 5-2 in the second, falling to a 5-4 aggregate defeat.
Yeovil would go onto play Blackpool in that year’s final, which they lost 2-0 at Wembley Stadium.
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