Central defender Luke Foster admitted he was due a goal after his headed equaliser at Barrow on Saturday.

He became the 12th different Oxford United player to find the net this season with his 38th-minute leveller at Holker Street.

“The gaffer said to me just before the game ‘it’s about time there was a goal from you’ and that’s why I turned round to him when I was celebrating it,” Foster said after the match.

“It was to say to him, there’s the goal we’ve been waiting for! It was just a bit of banter by me and the bench.

“It was a good ball by Muzzer (Adam Murray), I just kept my eye on it and luckily it finished in the back of the net.”

Boss Wilder confirmed: “I said to him and Mark Creighton that they should possibly score more with the delivery we put into the box.

“It was a very good ball in by Muzzer and a great header.

“We don’t want to go overboard on set pieces because we like to open teams up, but we do pay a bit of attention to them and it was good for him to get one.”

Foster felt United were unfortunate not to win.

“We had enough to get three points today, but I think the weather absolutely killed it,” he said.

“Perhaps we could have been better in the third quarter.

“The wind spoils a game of football, I’d rather not play in it when it’s that bad, to be honest.

“There’s nothing you can do, you can’t pass it, everything in the air goes swirling out, it just runs out the other end, but you’ve just got to make the best of a bad situation.

“I’m pleased we didn’t throw it away though. Places are like this are potential banana skins so it’s important we’ve come here and not lost.

“I’ll take not scoring all season if it meant keeping clean sheets and having the best defensive record in the league. But it was nice, especially as it got us the point.

“We had so many corners and I think I got on the end of three or four of them, but the wind just got hold of it each time.”