Northampton Town won their seventh consecutive league game at the weekend when dismantling Orient by four goals to nil in East London and promotion is looking more and more certain by the week with Chris Wilder’s side now 15 points clear of the team in fourth place.
Oxford are one place higher than that after a 4-2 success away to Morecambe and the U’s also have a date at Wembley to look forward to after reaching the final of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy.
Dangerman Kemar Roofe scored his 19th goal of the campaign at the Globe Arena but is an injury doubt for Tuesday night’s game and manager Michael Appleton is not prepared to prioritise the Northampton match above others.
"I''d like to think he''s intelligent enough to know it''s not about one game, it''s about the rest of them,” said Appleton, quoted in the Oxford Mail.