Aaron Ramsey celebrates first victory as Oxford boss with win at Stevenage

Aaron Ramsey earned his first victory as Oxford boss with a 2-1 win at Stevenage.

He made a double substitution in the 65th minute and two minutes later the pair combined to get the opening goal, Stanley Mills crossing from the right for Gatlin O’Donkor to steer a header wide of Filip Marschall.

The goalscorer then raced clear with three minutes to go, getting to the ball ahead of Marschall and being fouled.

Cameron Brannagan hit the penalty perfectly to the right of the Stevenage man and into the bottom corner to seal the points.

Jordan Roberts did pull one back with practically the last kick of the game but the U’s had been the better of the two sides over the entire piece.

Stevenage did have a couple of good headers go wide in the first half, the first by Lewis Freestone and the second for Carl Piergianni.

But Louie Sibley had also tested Marschall in a first period where both teams had suffered injuries, Oxford losing goalkeeper Jamie Cumming and Stevenage Jasper Pattenden.