Home Match Day Thread 17-04-2021 L1 OUFC v Gillingham

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Looking back that was such a fantastic result against a decent Gillingham team, we really dug in deep, Sam Winnall, big positive, they said he’s the best natural finisher at the club, good things come to those that wait, we’ve just got to keep winning and hope like hell!!!
 
Stats are a funny old thing.

We’ve won as many matches as Sunderland in third but have lost 15 games this season. Shrewsbury in 18th have lost fewer matches than us.

Since 2000-01, only three teams in a total of 80 sides that have made a League 1 playoff campaign have made it to them after losing 16 games or more. They were Hartlepool in 2004-05 (lost 17), Peterborough in 2013-14 (lost 18) and Barnsley in 2015-16 (lost 16 and won the playoffs). It shows that we are still on that knife edge as the odds are against if you if you lose 16 matches or more.

No slip ups and that continues on Tuesday against Wimbledon.
 
We have used up all our lives now, so absolutely we have no more room to slip up.

I would be amazed if 4 wins and 77 points didn’t do it.
 
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But Wigan losing games would reduce it, as would Swindon winning.
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Only just reading thru this and some people don’t understand that a three game win/lose deficit will bring at least a 6 goal difference so 9 isn’t that much.
 
Gillingham are coming in for a bit of undeserved stick, here. They played well and were much better than us until Winnall’s goal.

They were direct, but let’s not pretend that we were shy of the long ball after tediously-long periods of side-to-side breath-catching.

What we lacked in performance, we made up for in sheer-bloody-mindedness, though.
 
What a pleasant day, yesterday. Sat outside the Oak for a couple of hours with a couple of local mates for the first time in an eon before the match. Got in late and powered up the iFollow, which worked. Oxford got schooled for 70 minutes in 'pragmatic football'. Then the dam broke! After the first goal a great big fat dirigible floated across the Leys trailing a "We can do this" banner.

Massive burst of laughter when we scored the third. Brilliant spirit from the lads and a smidgeon of skill, but I thin Fatty must have made poor substitutions. Good. And amazingly no hangover.

Tuesday's the big one now. COYY!
 
The odds are still stacked against us making it to that last play-off place but credit to the team for the way they have refused to give it up.
0-2 down late on and not playing all that well, they have somehow clawed themselves back into it.
It was a privilege to witness it.
On we go!
 
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