PHIL Parkinson was happy to escape from MK Dons with a point after losing two of his first team regulars to injury.

Keiran Agard cancelled out Jay Spearing’s first-half free kick to leave Wanderers still searching for their first win of the calendar year.

But Parkinson felt the point was well-earned considering Andy Taylor had pulled out in the warm-up with a groin injury and Lawrie Wilson limped off with a hamstring problem 10 minutes before the end, leaving his team with 10 men.

Wanderers gave debuts to Filipe Morais and Chris Long from the start at Stadium:mk and also introduced Viv Solomon-Otabor and Adam Le Fondre off the bench in the second half.

“We’ll take a point considering everything that went against us in the week, the change around in the squad,” said Parkinson after the final whistle.

“We came here and it was a party atmosphere, more than 20,000 here, and then we lost Andy Taylor in the warm-up and then Lawrie Wilson does his hamstring.

“If you add all that up it’s an excellent point against a team who scored four last week and five the week before.”

Wanderers’ best chance of the first half fell to Long, who headed wide from Morais’ right-wing cross.

Ed Upson curled a free kick on to the roof of the net for the home side, backed by their biggest-ever home following, and the excellent Harvey Barnes was also denied by Ben Alnwick after bursting through on the edge of the box.

But the last word of the half went to Spearing, whose free kick from the left flew past a flurry of bodies in the penalty box before nestling inside David Martin’s far post.

Wanderers gifted an equaliser when Dean Moxey – in for the injured Taylor – and sub Max Clayton failed to clear their lines and the ball eventually fell for Agard to bury his shot past Ben Alnwick.

That signalled an onslaught from the Dons and although Parkinson brought on Solomon-Otabor and Le Fondre to try and steal a late goal, Wilson’s departure left them holding on.

Jay Spearing did manage to wriggle through to force a save from Martin with one excellent run but otherwise it was all hands to the pump.