Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Louis scored the winning spot-kick as United beat Charlton at the Valley 6-5 on penalties after the two sides drew 0-0 after extra time last night. Andy Crosby, James Hunt, Scott McNiven, Paul Powell and Matt Robinson had already scored from the penalty spot before Louis' dramatic winner, coming in sudden death after Radostin Kishishev had missed for Charlton. Matt Bound, Bobby Ford and Dave Savage all missed penalties for Oxford, but Charlton's spot kicks were just as bad. In the game Andy Woodman made several good saves to deny the Addicks, whose poor finishing and woeful crossing were also partly to blame for the result. United played as well as we know they can and ensured that the gap of three divisions between the teams was never evident.

United made only one change from the starting line-up at York, the suspended Andy Scott coming back in place of Manny Omoyinmi. Scott had to be stretchered off seven minutes before half-time with a leg injury and he was replaced by Manny, who terrorised the Charlton defence until he was himself substituted in the final minute of extra time for Powell, brought on for his penalty taking prowess. Manny wasn't happy about it though, and trudged off straight to the dressing room where he missed out on the celebrations, thanks to Louis' winner. Louis had earlier replaced the tiring David Oldfield.

Referee Phil Joslin booked Bobby Ford for a late tackle, but otherwise had a reasonable game, although many United fans felt that he should have shown a red card to Charlton's Jonathan Fortune for hauling Manny back when he would have been clean through on goal. Presumably Fortune was saved because Manny was running at an angle to goal rather than straight at Dean Kiely. The attendance was a paltry 9,494, of whom about 2,000 were United supporters. A match report is available here or hereabouts.

The draw for the third round takes place at about 2.30pm on Saturday, live on Sky Sports. Before tonight's games United were the lowest placed club still in the competition.

Reserves lose

United's reserves went down 2-0 to Wycombe at Court Place Farm this afternoon, with first half goals from Sean Devine and Richard Harris. The team featured Jefferson Louis and Sam Ricketts, and cameo appearances from Mike Ford and Peter Rhoades-Brown.