Oxford 'keep leaving the door ajar for teams' - Rowett

Gary Rowett's Oxford United have won just one league game this season

Oxford United head coach Gary Rowett says he is frustrated by his side's 1-0 loss to fellow strugglers Sheffield United.

A second-half Callum O'Hare goal was the difference between the sides as Oxford impressed in a goalless first half.

"When you play against a team like Sheffield United - we know where they are in the league, we know they're not at the most confident or been at their best - but they've still got a very good squad, still got very good players," he told BBC Radio Oxford.

"I think it's a sign of respect in some ways that they came, set up almost, it felt like, to go and frustrate us and maybe nick a point or maybe get something on the break.

"I thought we limited them to very, very little. First half was, again, another really, really good performance - maybe a little bit of quality in the last action wasn't quite there - but I thought it was a really dominant first-half performance.

"Second half we knew, perhaps, it would be a little more even, but what you can't do is you can't allow one moment, one ball, three in the box, takes as touch, finds the corner, and we didn't have that luxury.

"It feels like we keep leaving the door ajar for teams to get something out of the game where maybe it should be a 0-0 - we're frustrated, we don't take our chances, but we go away with something."