Aaron Wilbraham scored twice and made another as MK Dons won an absolute thriller at the Fraser Eagle Stadium.

Wilbraham broke Accrington's spirit with a five-minute second-half double after the Dons had somehow gone in at half time trailing.

It was Stanley skipper Paul Mullin who had left the Dons mystified at the break, finding the net twice in the first half after Izale McLeod had sensationally given the Dons the lead.

Even after the home side had been reduced to 10 men following Robbie Williams' dismissal and Sean O'Hanlon had seemingly made the game safe, there was still time for Andrew Mangan to shred the nerves with a late cracker.

A magnificent contest was opened with a magnificent goal as McLeod hit another for the scrapbook following his wonder strike against Stockport.

Fed by a roving Jon-Paul McGovern, McLeod teased his way in from the left, as he so often does, and unleashed a shuddering drive from 25 yards that cracked in off the inside of the near post.

The Dons' control of the game was total and both Gareth Edds and McGovern went close as Martin Allen's team looked to turn the screw.

But they didn't make the pressure count and inevitably, Stanley hit back through captain Mullin.

Out of nothing, a deep cross from the left found Mullin completely unmarked at the far post and he steered a controlled volley inside Lee Harper's far post.

The Dons had gone from in-control to disbelief and within three minutes they were behind. Leighton McGivern tricked his way round O'Hanlon on the edge of the box and drove a ball right onto Mullin's head, which diverted it convincingly into the bottom corner from eight yards.

Even the Stanley fans would have been wondering how they were leading a game in which they had been completely outclassed but soon after the break, Wilbraham brought some common sense back into play.

Drissa Diallo's high ball into the box was, for once, allowed to be contested by both attackers and goalkeeper, and when Wilbraham came off better, he bundled the ball home from close range.

The Dons utility man grabbed an authoritative third five minutes later, instinctively stabbing his ninth of the season after Keith Andrews had kept McGovern's corner alive.

As Gareth Edds was replaced and Wilbraham dropped back into midfield, McLeod and Lloyd Dyer came into their own playing on the counter and Williams just couldn't cope. As McLeod burst onto Wilbraham's long ball over the top, the Stanley defender hauled him down and barely waited for his second yellow as he trudged down the tunnel.

O'Hanlon's fourth looked to have put the game to bed with nine minutes to go as he thumped home a header after Wilbraham had nodded back McGovern's corner.

But plucky Accrington made it a grandstand finish on 84 minutes, matching McLeod's earlier strike with a rasping right-foot drive from 35 yards that gave Harper no chance.