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The Potters have drawn three of their four league games since Robins took charge at the start of January and their lack of goals is hampering their attempts to pull away from the drop zone.
This was the fifth time in seven home games that they failed to score, with Robins hoping Friday's loan signing of Ali Al-Hamadi from Ipswich will go some way to making them more potent.
With the Iraqi forward watching from the stands, his new teammates rarely looked like ending Oxford's unbeaten league run under Gary Rowett, which now stands at eight games.
Robins said: "We had opportunities to play through them, to play around them - I thought we did pretty well in that sense.
"But it's the final third that then lets us down a little bit because we need to move the ball quickly in the final third and we need to run quickly in the final third.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة January 26, 2025 من The Football League Paper.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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