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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 38 (setup 1, season 25)
Oxford United
v.
Tranmere Rovers
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
14
Overall form:
Home form:
Daniel Giménez Hernández, DANI GIMÉNEZ16Mihai GHERASIM
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
24
Overall form:
Home form:
Julien FAUBERT82FELIPE Dias da Silva dal Belo
Carlos Amoldo SALCIDO Flores63Yuri ZHIRKOV
Alaixys ROMAO84RUBÉN Salvador PÉREZ del Marmol
Francisco Javier Rodríguez Pinedo, MAZA85Paolo CANNAVARO
Jean-Alain BOUMSONG86Aleksandar IGNJOVSKI
Facundo AFFRANCHINO76Dmitri SYCHEV
Yohan MOLLO78Niko KRANJCAR
AMAURI Carvalho de Oliveira9Tomás NECID
Kyrylo PETROV106Vágner Silva de Souza, VÁGNER LOVE
Mohammed TCHITÉ116EDUARDO Alves da Silva
Manager
Jay SIMPSON12Mladen PETRIC
Keith ANDREWS13Nathan STANTON
Jamie GRIMES14Rob HALL
Curtis THOMPSON615Marek SUCHÝ
Martin PATERSON16Andrei ARSHAVIN

Oxford United 2 Tranmere Rovers 2
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 20,325, Stadium: Kassam Stadium, Referee: Paul TAYLOR 7½)
45 Salcido, 76 MolloScorers5 Zhirkov, 68 Cannavaro
77 Salcido <=> ThompsonSubstitutions
Sendings off
2 Petrov, 49 SalcidoBookings
2Corners1
9Fouls25
4Offsides2
2Shots on5
7Shots off7
9Total shots12
0Shots saved3
58%Possession42%
Man of the match: Julien FAUBERT
2PETROV booked for a clinical tackle on IGNJOVSKI.
5GOAL!! A weak shot from ZHIRKOV seemed to hold little difficulty for DANI GIMÉNEZ but the ball somehow bobbled into the net. (1-0 Tranmere Rovers)
20NECID worked the ball to RUBÉN PÉREZ, SYCHEV gathered his cross and headed the ball within easy reach of the Oxford United 'keeper.
33DANI GIMÉNEZ dived to his right to block a lovely drive from Tranmere Rovers's EDUARDO.
34Uncertainty in the Oxford United defence enabled CANNAVARO to thump the ball just wide.
36KRANJCAR shot over.
38AFFRANCHINO made space on the left and knocked the ball to AMAURI who rasped the ball over.
38A fine ball from SALCIDO on the right was collected by BOUMSONG who sliced his shot inches wide.
40MOLLO was put clear by PETROV and he raced past the Tranmere Rovers 'keeper but thrust his shot inches over.
41A accurate pass bobbled toward EDUARDO and his right foot shot flew narrowly wide.
44VÁGNER LOVE ran onto a wonderful ball from RUBÉN PÉREZ but fumbled his shot wide.
45GOAL!! RUBÉN PÉREZ tried to play the ball out of the Tranmere Rovers penalty area but was tackled by MOLLO who forced the ball to SALCIDO for a simple goal. (1-1)
 
48A penalty box scramble resulted in SYCHEV driving the ball over.
49SALCIDO receives a yellow card for a bad challenge.
54The 'keeper was able to block a wicked shot.
64A tame strike from PETROV bounced agonisingly wide.
68RUBÉN PÉREZ stroked an easy chance past the far post.
68GOAL!! NECID made space for CANNAVARO who, after an interchange of passes on the edge of the area, rammed the ball past the Oxford United 'keeper. (2-1 Tranmere Rovers)
75SALCIDO waltzed round SYCHEV and rattled a tame shot over.
76GOAL!! A long goal-kick from BOUMSONG caught the Tranmere Rovers defence square and MOLLO nipped in to round the 'keeper and score. (2-2)
81TCHITÉ beat two Tranmere Rovers players and slammed an effort over.
84THOMPSON blasted a right foot shot inches wide from twenty yards out.
88A free-kick from KRANJCAR flew over the bar.