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Chris Wilder on Oxford 0 Exeter 0: “We’ve done well in a tight game against a good side”

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A hard fought 0-0 draw for Exeter City at the Kassam last night. The result keeps the Grecians 3rd in the table.

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Oxford United 0 Exeter City 0
01 Clarke 01 Krysiak
13 Hunt 05 Baldwin
03 Newey 03 Woodman
16 Whing 14 Doherty
04 Raynes 06 Coles
06 Wright 04 Bennett
15 William 11 Davies
17 Rose 07 Sercombe
08 Kitson 19 O’Flynn
09 Constable 10 Gow
07 Rigg 22 Keohane
Substitutes Substitutes
14 Hall 15 Moore-Taylor
18 Davies 25 Parkin
20 Marsh 26 Tillson
21 Crocombe 29 Grimes
34 Bevans 30 Pym
35 O’Dowda 32 Wheeler
37 Ruffles 35 Gill
Substitutions
Oxford Davies on for Williams  69′, Marsh on for Constable 80′
Exeter Gill on for Doherty 54′, Wheeler on on for Keohane 54′  and Parkin on for O’Flynn 81′
Discipline
Oxford Hunt yellow, Kitson 2 yellows and therefore a red
Exeter Yellows for Doherty, Coles and Sercombe
Match Stats OUFC ECFC
Possession 48% 52%
Shots 6 4
On target 1 2
Corners 5 2
Fouls 7 9
Att: 5,083, including 362 Exeter fans
Ref: Keith Stroud

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Quotes

Paul Tisdale speaking to the Club website:-

It’s a good point Considering the two games we’ve had – Scunthorpe away and then here at Oxford a few days later – we’ve oxford_exeter_pic1had two clean sheets and some very considered play. There were some tired legs, it has to be said – but I thought we played very pragmatically.

We lacked maybe a touch of burst to our game which we had on Saturday, but I can’t be too critical.

We played very safely today – I’d have liked us to have 10 per cent more and more push and drive in attacked areas, but these lads have worked very hard. We defended very well and did the basics very well again.

Scot Bennett said:-

There are a lot of players that can move around. Pat [Baldwin] was at right-back in the first half and then I got moved out there after, and we started with a five and then became a four.gow_keohane

But we’re all together at the minute, and if that’s the case, we can keep playing for each other and keep moving forward.

You’ve always got a chance if you can keep a clean-sheet. We had a chat and we wanted to keep more than we did last year because we sat down and worked out how many we had kept last season.

Chris Wilder on the Oxford United website:-

It was a decent game of football. I thought it was just lacking a goal, from us especially. I was pleased oxford_exeter_thumbwith the way we played overall for the full 90 minutes. We got in and around their penalty area more than they did to us. I don’t think Clarkey’s really had anything to do in the second half and we kept asking the question. It was pretty similar to the second half at Accrington really. We created quite a bit, we just lacked that final pass and that little bit of quality in and around the box.

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