Oxford United 2 Exeter City 2.

Saturday 21st December 2002.

Referee: A Leake

Att: 7057

BBC match report –

A late Justin Walker penalty for Exeter denied Oxford a sixth successive win.

Oxford dominated the first half and Exeter goalkeeper Kevin Miller kept them out with magnificent saves from Jefferson Louis and Steve Basham.

Miller made another superb save to deny Basham shortly after the restart and the visitors then broke away to score.

Steve Flack headed home a Carl Pettefer corner after 58 minutes - the first goal conceded by Oxford in 513 minutes - and it signalled the introduction of Oxford striker Lee Steele.

He equalised with a miskick that deceived Miller and five minutes later, Matthew Bound blasted a 25-yard free-kick into the roof of the net to put Oxford 2-1 up.

But Scott McNiven brought down Pettefer at the end and Walker scored from the spot to earn Exeter a point.

Oxford Utd: Woodman, McNiven, Waterman, Crosby, Bound, Robinson, Hunt, Ford, Savage, Basham, Louis. Subs: Steele, Oldfield, Scott, Hackett, Hunter.

Exeter: Miller, Hiley, Gaia, Pilkington, Pettefer, Thomas, Walker, Ampadu, Roscoe, Flack, Coppinger. Subs: Fraser, Moor, McConnell, Breslan, Virgo.

Referee: A Leake (England)