Five-star MK Dons romped to their biggest win of the season as they mauled helpless Accrington Stanley.

Paul Ince's League 2 leaders produced one of their finest performances of the season to go four points clear at the top of the table ahead of next weekend's crunch clash at Peterborough.

And free-scoring Posh will be well aware of the ease with which the Dons chewed up and spat out an Accrington side that rarely threatened to disturb the home goal.

Ince's decision to select a three-man central midfield was fully vindicated even before half time with Keith Andrews, Alan Navarro and the outstanding Colin Cameron each getting themselves on the scoresheet before the break.

And Lloyd Dyer, who played with freedom that made him a joy to watch all afternoon, bagged a superb second-half double to complete a one-sided rout.

It means the Dons travel to London Road next week to the home of second-placed Peterborough, who came from behind to win at Chester, in the biggest game of the League 2 season so far.

Without the injured Aaron Wilbraham but boosted by the return from suspension of Andrews and Danny Swailes, Ince went for a change in formation - a 4-3-3 his side immediately looked at home with.

Within three minutes Kevin Gallen, starting as the central striker, had forced a flying save from Ian Dunbavin from Mark Wright's low ball into the box.

Keith Andrews celebrates his opener with Sean O'Hanlon.

Stanley were right on the back foot and on nine minutes, Andrews opened the floodgates.

Dean Lewington's right-wing corner was only cleared as far as Wright, who clipped the ball back to the far post when O'Hanlon headed down.

Andrews was arriving on the scene, and swept his ninth goal of the season into the roof of the net from close range.

It was one-way traffic as the home side dictated the pace, slowing things down then injecting pace at will, Dyer, Wright and a Lewington free-kick all going close.

But it was the slickness of the passing and the fluidity in their movement that made them so impressive - Dyer popping up on the right, Wright bursting through the centre and Cameron just about everywhere.

Alan Navarro taps home the second for the Dons.

It was no surprised when Navarro made it two with his first goal for the club on 25 minutes - tapping home from a yard for his first Dons goal after Dunbavin had bravely denied Wright from a Dyer cross.

It forced Accrington into a change as they desperately tried to stem the tide, wide man Billy Dennehy replacing defender Mark Roberts, but their problems were far more deep-set.

They just couldn't get near Ince's men and when they did have it, it was taken off them - one such moment bringing the inevitable third on 33 minutes.

Lewington easily hustled Romauld Boco off the ball on the left, fed Gallen inside him who helped the ball on its way through to the onrushing Cameron.

The ball stuck a little under the Scotsman's feet, but he just had enough room to dig out a shot that beat Dunbavin and tucked itself just inside the far post.

Colin Cameron gets the better of James Harris.

All over bar the shouting and it was surely a matter of how many the Dons would get - Ince's team keeping the ball for an incredible 35 passed in one passage leading up to the break.

John Coleman made his final two changes at the break, bringing on John Miles and Shaun Whalley for Boco and David Brown.

But when Leam Richardson and Dennehy dithered suicidally on the right left corner of their own area four minutes later, he Coleman might have wanted to rethink that decision.

Andrews was in no mood to let them contemplate a clearance, robbed them both and crossed for Wright.

Wright couldn't get his shot away, but Dyer was poised behind him and slammed a right-foot shot in off the underside of the bar.

Mark Wright gives Robert Williams a hard time as the Dons beat Accrington Stanley.

Willy Gueret was only called out of his deckchair to catch the odd cross or take the odd goal-kick as the Dons switched to autopilot, a shot wide from James Harris and a free-kick over the bar from Ian Craney about the best Stanley could muster all afternoon.

But it was to get worse for Coleman's team as Dyer buried his sixth of the season, moving in off the right to hit a left-footed shot that may have taken a hint of a deflection as it flew over Dunbavin.

The speedy winger saw a free-kick and a hat-trick chance fly just over the bar in injury time, but he'd have settled for the brace.

Dons fans will now be bracing themselves for a first-versus-second clash against Darren Ferguson's Posh next Saturday.

MK Dons (4-3-3): Gueret, Diallo (Stirling 65), O'Hanlon, Swailes, Lewington, Cameron (Johnson 75), Navarro (Baldock 80), Andrews (c), Wright, Gallen, Dyer.

Subs not used: Broughton, Abbey.

Goals: Andrews 9, Navarro 25, Cameron 33, Dyer 49,77.

Accrington Stanley (3-5-2): Dunbavin, Williams (c), Webb, Roberts (Dennehy 26), Edwards, Proctor, Harris, Brown (Whalley 46), Richardson, Boco (Miles 46), Craney.

Subs not used: Fearon, McGivern

Booked: Dennehy, Williams

Attendance: 6,917 (77 away)

Referee: Karl Evans (Greater Manchester)