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  Slump continues at home
  Oxford slumped to a further defeat at home today when they were beaten 1-0 by Luton Town from
  a Liam George goal in the third minute.
  The home side are now holding the unfortunate record of having lost seven of their last eight in
  the league and on today's performance, things are not making a change for the better.
  Luton scored with some members of the crowd still taking their seats as the Oxford defence were
  dumbfounded.
  Douglas and Midgley combined on the right to run the O's defence ragged, a series of one twos
  found Midgley on the bye line and his low cross found Liam George a yard out to slot the ball into
  the empty net for his ninth of the campaign.
  Oxford looked beaten already as Luton eased the ball around with all the composure of a
  Premiership side, the home side rarely pressed but nearly grabbed a shock equaliser from
  Beauchamp near half time.
  His long ranger looked to be flying wide but it deflected on route and crashed back off the post to
  the Manor Ground faithfulÕs despair.
  The second half saw much of the same with Luton well aware that this game would not take too
  much winning, Oxford tried to find a way back, at one stage there were four up front and three at
  the back following a number of substitutions, but it just wasn't to be.
  Luton chalked up their first clean sheet in nine games, which goes a long way to showing how
  bad Oxford looked, but Malcolm Shotton's men never even looked like scoring and unless things
  change quickly then the unthinkable could just creep up on them.

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