Oxford United welcome Northampton Town to the Kassam Stadium on Saturday looking for revenge after defeat at the Cobblers just before Christmas.
“We are a very different side now to the one that played that day.” Head Coach Des Buckingham told iFollow today. “We are very clear on what we want to do, the players are much clearer about the way I want to do things. We have players back in the squad after injury, we have new faces and I think we have a little bit of momentum now after a couple of away wins and four wins in six games.
“We have played some good football in amongst that and now we need to do that more often and more consistently over 90 minutes rather than in patches or halves of games.
“We have started to do that now and you can see the belief and confidence. Couple that with the fact we are welcoming players back at the same time, big players like Greg Leigh who played at Carlisle and Sam Long who will come back into the squad this weekend and then you add in a couple of fresh faces as well.
“We have competition and players fighting for places. If we are going to achieve what we set out to do this season then you need players to be challenging each other. The players are driving each other forward on a daily basis.
“It will still be a very hard game on Saturday. The Manager there has got them playing some good football and they are picking up results. They are up there in the form table with us so it should be a really good game”.
See the full interview in iFollow
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