Oxford United boss Mark Wright faces an interesting selection poser for today's Division 3 basement battle at Hartlepool.

Manny Omoyinmi's inspired performance when coming off the bench in the 1-1 draw against Carlisle at the Kassam Stadium on Tuesday night makes it hard to drop the former West Ham forward.

But, with United now paying the wages of Stuart Douglas, who has signed on loan from Luton Town for a month, there will be pressure to play him.

Wright could get around the problem by deploying Omoyinmi in a midfield role, possibly wide on the right.

But the U's boss will also have to weigh up the need not to be too attacking away from home, for fear of leaving themselves too open in midfield.

He may want to revert from the 3-4-3 he has used in the last two home matches to a 3-5-2 system.

Jon Richardson is likely to continue in defence in place of Wayne Hatswell, who now begins a three-game ban.

Adam Boyd, who came off the bench to score Hartlepool's winner at Macclesfield in midweek, could get a starting place up front.

Boyd, nicknamed "The New Gazza" by some in the north-east, has scored four goals this season, two of them when coming off the bench.

Pool boss Chris Turner has three players back from injury, defender Chris Westwood (hernia), midfielder Darrell Clarke (back injury) and winger Paul Stephenson (fluid on lungs), but all three will probably be on the bench.

**Oxford Utd: (from) McCaldon, Guyett, Bolland, Richardson, Omoyinmi, Savage, Whitehead, Powell, Moody, Brooks, Douglas, Ricketts, Stockley, Hackett, Knight, Folland, Quinn.

Hartlepool Utd: (probable) Williams, Arnison, Lee, Sharp, Barron, Robinson, Tinkler, Humphreys, Widdrington, Watson, Boyd. Subs from: Henderson, Westwood, Clarke, Stephenson, Simms, Lormor, Sweeney, Hollund, Bass, Ormerod.

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