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Ardley demands Dons response

Image: Neil Ardley: Hoping for improvement

AFC Wimbledon boss Neil Ardley admitted his side lacked ambition after a 3-0 defeat against Rochdale.

The Dons were beaten 3-0 at home after Scott Hogan scored a hat-trick for the Dale. Hogan opened the scoring after 66 minutes with a sharp finish from close range after a mistake from Ross Worner and he added a second goal after rounding the goalkeeper. His third was a fantastic lobbed finish eight minutes from time, taking his tally to 15 goals this season Ardley said: "There wasn't much in it, but after their goal we've folded. Players stopped doing their jobs and that is really difficult to take. "It's very rarely just one mistake that costs a goal and the first goal was a loose pass, a poor touch, a bad decision, the fourth player switched off and let someone run off him and the fifth player was beaten to the cross. It's a catastrophe. "We had no shape but that's the players we had on the pitch. I tried to get the players to play to their strengths. "We need to be better. Once they scored the first goal we were out-run, out-tempoed, out-muscled, out-everythinged. We went to pieces. "We lost players and had to change shape because we didn't want to put round pegs in square holes. "We had to go for the game, but that shows why we don't have the personnel to play 4-4-2."