Oxford United secured back-to-back 4-0 wins with a comfortable victory on the road at Burton.
Another Mark Harris brace and goals from Josh Murphy and James Henry sealed another empathetic win.
Here are three talking points from the game.
Clinical Counter Attacks
In recent weeks, Oxford have looked lethal when attacking and against the Brewers, they broke at speed during several clinical counters.
Harris’s first goal came when the forward broke from the halfway line and his second came when Murphy burst down the left before cutting back to the Welshman.
Murphy’s goal came from a Burton attack with the winger bursting forward from inside his own half before calmly slotting past former U’s goalkeeper, Max Crocombe. Henry completed the scoring in similar style, with Oxford breaking from a Burton attack.
Clean Sheet
For the first time this season, Oxford have kept back-to-back clean sheets in the league.
Having kept just nine clean sheets in 41 league games, the U’s added another in similar, impressive style.
Even with a slightly changed back four (which we’ll get to next) they looked organised and disciplined throughout.
But now the tests will come ahead of fixtures against Peterborough, Lincoln and Stevenage.
Injuries
Joe Bennett was the only change with the left-back picking up a minor knock in training. It wasn’t the end of the world as Greg Leigh returned and put in a solid performance.
However, Cameron Brannagan aggravated a knock to his ankle in the first half, after he initially suffered the problem in training in the week, and could be a major miss ahead of those tricky fixtures. Josh McEachran came in and did well but there could be an important role for Marcus McGuane to play in the coming fixtures.
Elliott Moore, who went down earlier in the second half, was forced off in stoppage time. Des Buckingham will be hopeful the trio will be available when the U’s welcome Posh next week.
