As the gulls swooped around the Riverside looking for tasty morsels… there were no such delights for Middlesbrough today. Real sense of opportunity missed as second from top played second from bottom. Oxford clung on at times, but came with a clear gameplan. They came on the team bus, and they parked that bus… Blocks, tackles, clearances, the lot. And they were a threat on the break - twice hitting the woodwork through Stanley Mills and Myles Peart-Harris in the first half.