Lincoln City are tomorrow’s visitors to the KasStad, as United hope to overturn their recent poor run of form and crawl out of the bottom half of the bottom division. Oxford will still be without Tom Winters, Jon Ashton, Danny Brown and Julian Alsop, but Mark Rawle and Barry Quinn could find themselves in the squad, despite only having half a game for the reserves on Wednesday because of the weather.

Nathan Peat has just had his loan from Hull extended until the end of the season, and Marcus Richardson has just completed a three-match ban, but Lincoln are likely to start with Simon Yeo, Gary Taylor-Fletcher, and former Boston striker Martin Carruthers in a three-man front line. Lincoln beat Kidderminster 3-0 in their last game, and so will be looking to continue that form against a United side that manager Graham Rix insists is not demoralised.

Lincoln are one of those rare sides against whom Oxford have quite a decent record. United have won exactly half of the teams’ previous meetings (13 wins, against the Imps’ six), and have beaten Lincoln in four of the last five meetings, last season’s match at the Kas ending in a draw. Indeed, Lincoln’s last win was the 1-0 fiasco at Sincil Bank, when Mark Wright was United’s manager, when the Us had two players dismissed. In keeping with our usual gloomy outlook, we reckon the away side will win 1-0.