Constable can feel the force

8:00am Wednesday 20th August 2008

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Oxford United striker James Constable is itching to continue his good form against Wrexham tomorrow - and has happy memories of the last time he faced the Red Dragons.

Constable is on a season-long loan to Oxford from Coca-Cola League Two club Shrewsbury, and Wrexham happen to be Town's arch rivals.

He said: "We played against Wrexham when I was with them last season and it went well for me.

"We won 3-0 - and I think Wrexham got relegated that day - and I was lucky enough to get on the scoresheet that game, so I'll be hoping to do that again."

Constable got off the mark by bagging a brace in Saturday's 6-3 win over Eastbourne Borough and admits that has taken a weight off his shoulders.

"The gaffer brought me in because I've got goals wherever I've been, and the first couple of games I'd not scored, so the pressure was on a bit," he said.

"We'd under-performed in the first two games and it was a case of putting it right.

"With Barrow, we knew all about them, we knew they were going to be fighters, but we just under-performed on the day.

"It was a long journey there, I think it all just took its toll.

"Last Tuesday night we were the better side against Weymouth, we had more than 15 shots at the target, and they went up the other end and had two chances, and scored one of them.

"The boys knew we were good enough, it was just a question of taking our chances, and that's how it worked out in the end.

"We showed real guts to go on and get six goals after a few things had gone against us."

The 23-year-old former Walsall and Kidderminster forward added: "There's still a few things we can work on. We probably concede a few too many goals, but we've got the strike force to score goals.

"And if we can score six when we've not done as well as we could, that only makes us confident for more games.

"The workrate of the boys was phenomenal. It was six, but it could have been eight, nine or ten . . . however many we wanted to get really.

"We've got a big game now on Thursday night and I'm looking forward to that."