JOHNNIE Jackson will make a late call on centre-back Joe Lewis ahead of AFC Wimbledon’s League Two clash against Colchester United in Essex on Saturday.
Lewis was forced off late in the 0-0 draw at Fleetwood Town.
“We are well-equipped defensively, but Joe Lewis was just feeling his hamstring towards the end of the game at Fleetwood,” Jackson said on the Dons’ website.
“We’ve had to come off making demands of him in terms of training and we’ll make a late call on Joe. We’ll see how he is after [Friday’s] session and then decide.
“We’ll go with the same group that travelled to Fleetwood. Everyone else came through the game. There were some tired legs afterwards, but we’ve freshened the players up over the last couple of days, having stayed overnight and travelled back the next day.”
The Dons are second in the table as automatic promotion rather than the play-offs has became their main goal with fifteen games left. They hare eight points clear of Salford in eighth but only four points separate second from sixth.
Fleetwood boss Pete Wild reckons Wimbledon will finish in the top three.
Jackson said: “It’s nice to have been tipped to go up automatically by an opposition manager, but we have to go out there and prove that to be the case.
“What we did well, when we’re not quite on our game, is that we dug in the other night and got ourselves a point. That has got us a lot of success this year – being resilient and picking up points when we’re not at our best. That’s the hallmark of a good team.
“We must continue to do that – we need to be better than how we were against Fleetwood. We must continue to try and push hard and hopefully – with people saying that about us, meaning we’re doing a lot of things right – that will be the case come the end of the season, not with fifteen games to go.”
