Oxford visit Leyton Orient this Saturday, hoping to maintain the momentum from the Kidderminster game as United’s promotion challenge is reaching a critical juncture. Since United beat Orient at the KasStad on Boxing Day, the Os have won three and lost two of their six fixtures, leaving them 11th in the table, eight points below the play-offs.

The game is the last one of Julian Alsop’s current suspension, and therefore probably the final one of Richie Foran’s loan spell. Ian Atkins is likely to stick with the line-up that started the Kidderminster game, with Jon Ashton remaining in the back line and Steve Basham partnering Foran up front, based on the theory that you don’t change a winning line-up.

On Saturday Orient lost 1-0 at Cheltenham, but don’t be fooled, they’ve had some good results recently, including beating Mansfield and winning at Yeovil, although they did get tonked 5-0 by Doncaster. Rage Online’s New Year optimism has taken something of a battering recently, and so we’ll be a tad conservative (note that very small ‘c’) and opt for a 1-1 draw as our prediction.