SEAN Rigg heaped praise on Tyrone Marsh after the Oxford United youngster unselfishly laid on a goal for the winger to score against Accrington Stanley.

The teenage striker came off the bench for only his second Football League appearance and he went through on goal in the 90th minute.

He was odds-on to score, but opted to give his teammate a certain tap-in to wrap up a convincing 3-0 win.

Rigg was surprised to get the chance, but was thankful to finish the campaign with a goal.

He said: “I had my mouth shut, I thought Ty was going to shoot, but fair play to him for squaring it.

“I wouldn’t have blamed him if he had scored, but if he had missed I would have gone mad!

“He made the right decision and for a young lad to do that you have to give him a lot of respect.”

Rigg finished the season with seven goals, making him United’s fourth highest scorer.

But the winger admitted that he, like the team, had fallen short of expectations.

He said: “It’s nowhere near what I was expecting, I wanted to get around the 15-goal mark.

“That’s how many I should have got, I had the chances and I didn’t take them when I should have done.

“We went through a couple of bad spells and all the boys are disappointed to miss the play-offs by four points.

“It goes to show how close it was and there were plenty of games where it was tight and we conceded late on or we could have turned a loss into a draw.

“That’s obviously really disappointing for us because we know we have the players to be up there.”

Elsewhere, Alfie Potter was relieved to escape unhurt from a wild Lee Molyneux tackle, which earned the Accrington midfielder a straight red card.

The U’s winger said: “It was silly because it could have ended in a bad injury.

“In the split second it happened you can’t really control yourself and at first I wanted to just boot the ball at him but then I would have been sent off myself.

“You do just calm down straight away and let the referee deal with it.”