MICHAEL Duberry returns to Oxford United’s starting line-up in the only change for the trip to Northampton Town.

The veteran defender, who has missed the last three games with a groin injury, replaces Andy Whing at centre half.

Otherwise the XI is unchanged from last Saturday’s 2-1 home defeat against Morecambe, which U’s boss Chris Wilder described as the worst of the season.

Whing is on the bench, alongside Jon-Paul Pittman, who returns to the squad after a month out with a hamstring injury, and top scorer James Constable.

The U’s dropped to seventh place following the afternoon kick-offs in npower League Two, but would climb back into the top six with a victory at Sixfields.

Oxford Utd: Clarke, Batt, Duberry, Wright, Davis, Hall, Chapman, Leven, Montano, Rendell, Morgan.

Substitutes: Brown, Whing, Pittman, Constable, Tonkin.