Oxford United captain Lee Bradbury has told his teammates: 'It's win or bust time'.

The U's have lost their last two games to slip to seven points off a play-off place, and will need to reproduce their January form if they are to stand any chance of gaining promotion.

Ramon Diaz's side won four and drew two of their six matches last month, but have failed to register a single point so far in February.

And although they need to stop the rot at Cheltenham on Saturday, Bradbury knows that a win is the only acceptable result.

"We need to win games now, nothing else will really do," he said.

"It's got to the stage where we need to win more than half our matches to stand a chance of making the play-offs, so draws are no good to us."

The former Portsmouth and Manchester City striker is also aware that good performances will count for nothing.

"We look to win every game we play, but it may be that if we are drawing inside the final ten minutes or so of a match, we will have to throw everything at it," he added.

"We need to get victories, and even if we end up losing the game, it will be the amount of wins we get that determines where we will finish, not the amount of draws.

"And while we want to win games playing good football, all that matters now is getting the result."

However, Bradbury knows it is a tough task, and has pinpointed United's remaining home games as the key.

Oxford entertain Macclesfield, Grimsby, Boston, Leyton Orient, Notts County, Southend and Chester at the Kassam Stadium.

"I think that we really have to win all of our home games - we can maybe only afford one slip-up," he added.

"That is a big ask, but we have the players here to do it. We know that we are more than capable of stringing together a run of results.

"We did it last month, and although we have lost our last two matches, they were tough games.

"Having said that, we know that it is the matches against the teams around the play-offs that we need to be getting results in.

"Wins against both of those teams would have taken us three points closer to them, but instead, we are six points further behind them."