Leon Knight scored a classy double as rampant MK Dons ran riot against Lincoln and set a new club record of seven successive league wins.

Knight opened the scoring with a breathtaking strike just before half-time to send the Dons in with a narrow lead at the break.

And after Lloyd Dyer and Aaron Wilbraham had put the game beyond doubt, Knight added a neat fourth eight minutes from time to extend the Dons lead at the top of League Two to three points.

It was a performance fit for an incredible crowd of 13,037 at stadiummk, as well as the potential millions watching at home on Sky television.

But despite the impressive scoreline, it could have been so many more for Paul Ince's team as they missed a number of clear chances, particularly in the first half.

But they did well to claim a fifth clean sheet in seven games as Lincoln certainly created chances themselves in an opening period that entertained hugely.

Wilbraham missed the first of several free headers for the Dons before the break, meeting Dean Lewington's corner completely unmarked only for the ball to cannon off his shoulder.

Within seconds the loose ball was loaded in from the left again, this time Dyer's cross headed fractionally wide by Alan Navarro.

Keith Andrews wins a midfield challenge.

Hamza Bencherif and Jamie Hand were just off target with long-range efforts for the visitors but they should have been behind on 23 minutes when Jude Stirling put Knight in the clear.

Having got the ball under control and with Alan Marriott in his sights, Knight failed to beat the Imps 'keeper who made an excellent save and Nat Brown cleared to safety.

Dyer was giving full-back Ryan Amoo all sorts of problems on the left and when he raided past the Lincoln man again two minutes later, Wilbraham just failed to get anything on his low cross.

With the pace of Dany N'Guessan providing them with an outlet, Lincoln did manage to threaten at times on the break and when striker Oliver Ryan broke away down the centre, Drissa Diallo recovered superbly to stop the shot troubling Willy Gueret.

But the Imps striker would have a better chance moments later, when Hand's pass cut the Dons defence through the middle, but his touch was awful and gave Gueret the chance to deny him.

Typically, Knight made him pay the ultimate price as the Dons scored a magnificent opener right at the end of the half.

Leon Knight opens the scoring with a blistering strike.

Navarro and Stirling combined well on the edge of the Dons box to find Wilbraham on halfway, and his flick into the path of the arriving Keith Andrews on the right was delightful.

Knight was peeling away already and when Andrews picked him out with a cross-field ball, the striker controlled immaculately inside the box, raided inside Amoo and rammed a right-footed shot in off the underside of the bar.

It was a scintillating break and a goal worthy of the noise inside the stadium.

Ince's men failed to find the same tempo at the start of the second period and when N'Guessan managed to break the shackles put on him by Sean O'Hanlon and Danny Swailes, Gueret was again out smartly to block at his feet.

Leon Knight is congratulated on his opening goal by team mates.

The Dons 'keeper was working hard to grab that first clean sheet since Morecambe and with O'Hanlon and Swailes looking solid in front of him, Lincoln rarely threatened to deny him it.

If O'Hanlon and Swailes' partnership is blossoming, Navarro's pairing with Andrews is positively blooming.

The two dictated the play effortlessly at times and one was at the heart of each of the goals that ended the contest.

First Navarro made a burst onto a ball down the right as Lincoln opened up on 70 minutes. Dyer was screaming for it in acres to his left, Navarro duly delivered and the winger crashed his fourth goal of the season beyond Marriott from 14 yards.

Andrews then got in on the act, sending a beautiful cross-field pass into the path of substitute Mark Wright, whose cross from the right was volleyed in impressively by Wilbraham.

It became a matter of how many the Dons would get and when Bally Smart, on as a sub for Lewington minutes before, clipped a pass over the top for Knight, the little striker was clinical in his finish to take his tally for the season to five.

It was a burst of class from the home side to turn a frustrating second period into a goal surge but the ease with which Lincoln were opened up was frightening.

Gueret ensured the clean sheet remained intact, wonderfully tipping Frecklington's late drive over the bar, but in truth the scoreline said it all.

It wasn't flattering to Ince's team, they were four goals better than Lincoln.

Hereford will look to end the winning run when the two sides meet in a top-of-the-table clash next Saturday.

MK Dons (4-4-2): Gueret, Diallo, O'Hanlon, Swailes, Lewington (Smart 80), Stirling (Wright 64), Navarro, Andrews (c), Dyer, Wilbraham (Johnson 87), Knight.

Subs not used: Cameron, Abbey.

Goals: Knight (45, 82), Dyer (70), Wilbraham (78).

Lincoln City (4-4-2): Marriott, Amoo, Bencherif, Brown, Beevers, Frecklington, Hand (Forrester 75), Kerr (c), N'Guessan, Stallard (Torpey 58), Ryan (Warlow 58).

Subs not used: Dodds, Green.