STUART McCall beamed with pride as City made it back-to-back away wins by beating MK Dons.

First-half goals from Josh Cullen and Billy Clarke powered the Bantams to a 2-1 victory to follow up the weekend success at Peterborough.

City were missing James Hanson, out with a tight thigh, and McCall was delighted with his side's battling display.

"There's great togetherness in the group and obviously results like this can only help the belief," said the City boss.

"That's our fourth different system we've played in four games and we've not really had time to work on it because we didn't know what the team was going to be.

"But we weren't coming here to sit in. We wanted (Jordy) Hiwula and (Mark) Marshall to get beyond them and we wanted (Josh) Cullen to get in the box to support Billy because we couldn't go aerially.

"I can't speak highly enough of the endeavour of the players to reproduce what they've done. We've got (Romain) Vincelot playing at the back like he's been there all his life.

"But I said to him we can't get you back in the middle of the park because the three in there are doing such a good job."

MK Dons scored a late consolation – the first goal City have let in – and home boss Karl Robinson was fuming not to be awarded a penalty for a challenge on skipper Dean Lewington.

McCall said: "We stopped MK Dons in areas where they usually carve teams open. We stopped them down the middle.

"We lost a little bit of discipline in the second half because we got tired but that's understandable.

"I think this will be as tough a place to come as anywhere in this division. They've got good players and I know they are going to add as well.

"It's a marker for our players when they work hard and pass the ball. They are good players – we told them not to go there in awe and just hang on for a point.

"It's probably easy to think we hung on in the second half but I'm happier to talk about the first because we controlled it."