A method performed by a wireless device for decoding a transmission, the method comprising: determining a plurality of Machine-Type Communications, MTC, Physical Downlink Control Channel, MPDCCH, transmission candidates to monitor; the method being characterized in that it further comprises: for at least one candidate of the plurality of MPDCCH transmission candidates, determining whether the candidate belongs to a first group of candidates or a second group of candidates where the first group of candidates comprises a first subset of a first search space and the second group of candidates comprises the combination of a second search space and a second subset of the first search space, where the second subset is the complement of the first subset and the first search space comprises a User Equipment, UE,-specific search space and the second search space comprises a Type 0-MPDCCH common search space; if the candidate belongs to the first group of candidates, attempting to decode the MPDCCH transmission using a Channel State Information, CSI,-based precoding scheme; and if the candidate belongs to the second group of candidates, attempting to decode the MPDCCH transmission using a predetermined precoding scheme. determining a plurality of Machine-Type Communications, MTC, Physical Downlink Control Channel, MPDCCH, transmission candidates to monitor; the method being characterized in that it further comprises: for at least one candidate of the plurality of MPDCCH transmission candidates, determining whether the candidate belongs to a first group of candidates or a second group of candidates where the first group of candidates comprises a first subset of a first search space and the second group of candidates comprises the combination of a second search space and a second subset of the first search space, where the second subset is the complement of the first subset and the first search space comprises a User Equipment, UE,-specific search space and the second search space comprises a Type 0-MPDCCH common search space; if the candidate belongs to the first group of candidates, attempting to decode the MPDCCH transmission using a Channel State Information, CSI,-based precoding scheme; and if the candidate belongs to the second group of candidates, attempting to decode the MPDCCH transmission using a predetermined precoding scheme. for at least one candidate of the plurality of MPDCCH transmission candidates, determining whether the candidate belongs to a first group of candidates or a second group of candidates where the first group of candidates comprises a first subset of a first search space and the second group of candidates comprises the combination of a second search space and a second subset of the first search space, where the second subset is the complement of the first subset and the first search space comprises a User Equipment, UE,-specific search space and the second search space comprises a Type 0-MPDCCH common search space; if the candidate belongs to the first group of candidates, attempting to decode the MPDCCH transmission using a Channel State Information, CSI,-based precoding scheme; and if the candidate belongs to the second group of candidates, attempting to decode the MPDCCH transmission using a predetermined precoding scheme.