Chris Wilder is looking for a reaction from his Oxford United players against Torquay United at the Kassam Stadium tonight.

Oxford's boss is hoping they will can bounce back from Saturday’s humbling 5-0 defeat at Bradford and believes the team owe the fans a performance.

Harry Worley and Leigh Franks will take over from the suspended Mark Creighton and Jake Wright, who were both sent off in a disastrous second half at Valley Parade.

Josh Payne, who didn’t come out for the second 45 minutes because of an ankle injury, is fit to play.

“It’s now all about how we react,” Wilder said. “We showed a good reaction after the Macclesfield defeat, against Northampton, and I’m confident that, with our supporters getting behind us, we’ll be able to show another good reaction.”

Wilder admitted it had been a long weekend, but after analysing Saturday’s game on the DVD, he felt most of the City goals came on the counter-attack and once the sendings-off happened “it was game, set and match”.

He said: “The players were hurting and it was a heavy defeat, we understand that, but it’s still just three points lost.

“We’ve got to excite the fans and we owe the supporters a performance full of desire and commitment.

“The players have got to show me that they’re good enough in terms of mentality and performance to take this club forward.”

Wilder is probably thinking about other changes, and can call on the likes of Damian Batt, Steve Kinniburgh, Jack Midson, Matt Green, and Simon Clist, if the latter has recovered from his ankle injury.

Torquay have gone nine games without a clean sheet. Paul Buckle’s team did chalk up their first win in ten league games, though, on Saturday, beating Morecambe 3-1 at Plainmoor. Like Oxford, Morecambe had two players sent off, including one after only ten minutes.

Former Oxford player-of-the-year Lee Mansell, the new captain at Torquay, returns after a one-match ban, while another ex-U’s man, forward Chris Zebroski, has hit six goals this season.

Ex-Wycombe right back Danny Senda is a doubt with a hamstring injury.

Oxford Utd: (from) Clarke, Purkiss, Worley, Franks, Tonkin, Heslop, Payne, Hall, Potter, Constable, Craddock, Eastwood, Batt, Kinniburgh, Baker, Clist, Green, Midson, Cole, Deering.

Torquay Utd: (from) Bevan, Oastler, Ellis, Branston, Nicholson, Zebroski, Ostler, Wroe, Mansell, Benyon, Macklin, Rose, O’Kane, Hemmings, Robertson, Stevens, Kee, Gritton, Rowe-Turner, Charnock, Potter, Palmer.