'Small margins have gone against us' - Rowett

Oxford United head coach Gary Rowett believes the "small margins" have gone against his side during their recent eight-game winless league run.

The 18th-placed U's travel to Hull City, the side just one place and two points behind them, on Wednesday night (19:45 GMT) having not won a Championship game since a 3-2 victory over Luton Town in January but encouraged by Friday night's 1-1 draw at play-off hopefuls Norwich City.

"Every game we've been pretty competitive in," Rowett told BBC Oxford. "Every game is small margins. The recent run of games, unfortunately the margins haven't gone our way. That's how it works sometimes.

"What you have got to do is show a responsibility to put an end to that run and I thought the Norwich performance, to a certain degree, did that.

"What we've got to do now is build off the back of that and make sure we continue that type of performance."

After visiting Hull, Oxford host Watford on Saturday in their final fixture before the two-week international break.

"I think it [the Wednesday - Saturday turnaround] is probably the worst one to manage but our opponents on Saturday have got the same scenario," Rowett added.

"I've got to try and make good decisions about what we need to do to get the best possible outcome from the next two games and be as competitive as we can be.

"When you're playing in such close quarters you have to give that [rotation] some thought."