Bloomfield debut 'opened door of hope' for U's
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The football purists won't be banging on the Oxford United club shop door for a DVD of Saturday's game against Bristol City.
Both sides made it a difficult watch for most of the match.
Thankfully, United lit the touch paper late in the game and those oh-so-near moments when Stan Mills forced strong saves in the 72nd minute and injury time really gave the home crowd something to get behind.
It was a debut managerial performance from Matt Bloomfield that opened the door of hope, rather than shut the trap door to relegation.
It was solid defensively - a rare clean sheet - and still had some power in it to go for that last-gasp goal.
New signing Myles Peart-Harris on the left flank had an engine on him with as much rev as one installed at the local Mini car plant at Cowley.
And there are more new faces to come into the club to help with the fight, such as Jamie McDonnell, who signed from Nottingham Forest on Sunday.
But Oxford now face a flurry of games against sides who are pushing for the play-offs, as opposed to relegation rivals.
Normally the type of games you'd be happy to get a draw from. But some of those games need to be three-pointers if Bloomfield's men stand a chance of staying up.
