In the three decades between Leicester’s last trip to Oxford, the two sides have travelled significantly different paths – with the Foxes scaling to the top of English football as Premier League champions, while the U’s dropped as low as National League level.<\/p>\n
And while Oxford started the day 18 places below Leicester in the table and without a league win this season, they had Marti Cifuentes’ high-flying Foxes working hard from the outset.<\/p>\n
Lankshear’s ninth minute finish, after Jacub Stolarczyk’s failure to hold a Matt Phillips volley allowed Michal Helik to cut the ball back for the Tottenham loanee, was a deserved opener after a bright start from the hosts.<\/p>\n
A disastrous back pass from newly appointed U’s captain Cameron Brannagan gifted Ayew the chance to immediately restore parity.<\/p>\n
Przemyslaw Placheta then threatened to restore Oxford’s lead, with an effort that crashed off the crossbar and dangerously rebounded back against goalkeeper Stolarczyk. <\/p>\n
But the reprieve was soon forgotten as Ramsey saw red for a dangerous, studs-up challenge on Oxford’s Bulgaria international and fellow debutant Filip Krastev \u2013 moments after testing Jamie Cumming with a fierce shot.<\/p>\n
Despite going a man down, Stephy Mavididi was quick to show that Leicester would remain a threat with a solo attempt that had Oxford’s defence scrambling before Cumming made a save at his near post.<\/p>\n
Davies’ header from a corner, which cannoned off the unsuspecting Soumare and beyond Foxes goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk, put Gary Rowett’s side back ahead in the 44th minute.<\/p>\n
Cifuentes called on the experienced duo of Harry Winks and Pereira at half-time, and the Foxes’ Portuguese captain was quick to make a decisive contribution – linking up with Abdul Fatawu at the end of a intricate passing move before coolly slamming home the equaliser.<\/p>\n
There were also late shouts for a Leicester penalty, with a cross from Ayew hitting the arm of Sam Long, but those appeals were waved away by referee Ben Toner as the visitors were forced to settle for a hard-earned draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the three decades between Leicester’s last trip to Oxford, the two sides have travelled significantly different paths…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-134763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}