Oxford United’s new loan signing, Onome Sodje, will go straight into their squad for tonight’s Blue Square Premier game at Forest Green Rovers.

Manager Chris Wilder has also been boosted by Mark Creighton recovering from the tight hamstring which forced him to miss Saturday’s 1-0 win over Barrow, so he returns to the side.

Sodje, 21, joined the U’s on an emergency loan last night from Barnsley.

He is the pacy forward Wilder was looking for following the knee injury to Matt Green, who is likely to be sidelined for three weeks.

And the U’s know all about the former Charlton trainee, who had loan spells at Welling and Gravesend & Northfleet.

He scored Gravesend’s winner when they became the first team to beat United in the Conference in 2006-7.

He scored 11 goals in 18 starts for Gravesend before joining York City in 2007, and netted 22 goals in 47 league starts for York before joining Barnsley in the summer.

Wilder said: “He’s an exciting talent who has handled Conference football and excelled at this level.

“He has a good goalscoring record and can play anywhere along the front line.

“He is still a young player who has a great desire to improve and do well, and he will certainly add to the more than decent group of players that we have here.”

Nigerian-born Sodje, who moved to England when he was 14, made his Barnsley debut as a 79th-minute substitute in a 2-0 defeat to Coventry in August, but hasn’t played in the Tykes’ first team since then.

His cousins and uncles, Sam, Efe, Akpo and Steve, all play football in England as well.

Sodje could go straight into the starting line-up at The New Lawn, where the U’s will have another massive following, just as they did at Kidderminster ten days ago.

Their 13-goal top scorer James Constable says the huge backing the team are getting away from home really lifts the players.

l From Back Page “We’ll go down to Forest Green with confidence after Saturday’s win and will hopefully get a result. “It’s always a tough game there, it’s never the greatest atmosphere and we’ve got to get ourselves up. And it’s another night game which isn’t the easiest as well. We’ve just got to put on a performance. “The fans have been tremendous,” he said. “To take as many as we did (2,009) to Kidderminster, and have 500 or 600 more than they did gives the lads a massive boost, and hopefully we can put on an away display like we do at home.” Ironically, Forest Green are the only team United have failed to beat at the Kassam Stadium, the game ending 0-0. Last season, United were held 3-3 in Nailsworth, with ex- Liverpool trainee Conal Platt scoring twice, including a free-kick from outside the box. Platt did the same in Forest Green’s FA Cup win at Mansfield, a game Wilder watched, and hit a post with a free-kick in Saturday’s 1-0 defeat by Stevenage. United midfielder Simon Clist makes a first return to his old club, as he was not permitted to play in last season’s game. Left back Steve Kinniburgh completes his two-game ban. Forest Green, who are managed by former Swindon defender Dave Hockaday, are without striker Sean Rigg, whose loan spell from Bristol Rovers has expired. Ben Joyce, on loan from Torquay, and Tomi Ameobi, brother of Shola Ameobi, fight it out for a place in the side. Paul Stonehouse should return at left back. Forest Green Rovers: (from) Burton, Hodgkiss, Preece, Thorne, Stonehouse, Brown, Rocastle, Platt, Smith, Powell, Joyce, Ameobi, McDonald, O’Cearuill, Pass, King. Oxford Utd: (from) Clarke,.Batt, Foster, Creighton, Sandwith, Bulman, Murray, Clist, Midson, Constable, Cook, Sodje, Turley, Chapman, Deering, Potter, Kelly, Perry, Day. OXFORD UNITED get a second dose of deja vu after being drawn at home to Hayes & Yeading in the first round of the FA Carlsberg Trophy. They already have an FA Cup clash with Barrow this Saturday, just seven days after the sides met in the Blue Square Premier. And the FA Trophy clash with Hayes & Yeading at the Kassam Stadium on December 12 comes just four days after the sides face each other at Oxford in the league.