OXFORD United ended the season with a defeat on home soil despite a first half where they overwhelmed Accrington Stanley.

Billy Bodin gave the U’s an early lead with an emphatic finish when one-on-one with Lukas Jensen and the hosts went on to dominate a first half where they should’ve put the game out of sight.

Liam Manning’s side were punished though as Korede Adedoyin equalised immediately after both sides made a raft of substitutions, before Aaron Pressley turned the game around when he headed home with five minutes to go.

Manning made just the one change from the 3-0 win at Forest Green Rovers as Tyler Goodrham replaced Josh Murphy, who dropped to the bench.

United dominated the first half and had the first sight of goal after just three minutes when Goodrham cut inside from the left and fired a shot from 20 yards which hit Liam Coyle.

At the other end, Anthony Mancini headed over from a throw-in, shortly before the U’s took the lead.

After a penalty appeal for a possible foul on Kyle Joseph was turned away, United won the ball high up the pitch and Goodrham played the ball through for Bodin, who applied the finish when one-on-one with Jensen.

Cameron Brannagan dictated play from deep and played a ball over the top for Marcus Browne, who got into the penalty box but was denied by Jensen.

After 20 minutes, Joseph squeezed the ball through for Goodrham, but his effort was claimed by Danish stopper Jensen.

Moments later, a raking ball from Brannagan on the left picked out Bodin, who worked his way into the box and passed to Goodrham, but the teenager saw his shot blocked by Michael Nottingham.

The traffic continued to be one-way as Browne got in down the left and laid the ball across the box for Joseph, whose stabbed effort on the turn was cleared by Stanley.

Another opportunity came when Brannagan won the ball back from his own left-wing corner and slammed the sidenetting with a right-footed strike.

Just after the half hour mark, Joseph bent his run brilliantly to stay onside however the right leg of Jensen denied him when he was through on goal.

Jensen was then guilty of a handball inside his own box from a back pass, leading to an indirect free kick for United just off the penalty spot.

Brannagan struck the effort into the wall, with a relieved Jensen claiming the ball as it looped up in the air.

A rapid counter-attack saw a Joseph effort saved after cutting in from the left, before Goodrham missed out on making contact with the rebound.

As the game ticked towards half-time, Bodin sent in a free kick from the left, which Sam Long nodded across goal from the back post, with Stuart Findlay’s header clearing the crossbar.

In stoppage time, Nathan Butler-Oyedeji got in on goal, but Simon Eastwood stuck out a leg to deny him.

Straight away at the other end, Joseph hit the sidenetting from the left channel of the box.

The U’s started the second period on the front foot as Long hooked over after Elliott Moore had seen a header blocked from a Brannagan corner.

Shortly before the hour mark, Browne won himself a free kick when he charged down the left wing before drawing a foul on the edge of the box.

United’s No 11 took the set piece himself, but his right-footed strike sailed the wrong side of the far post.

Both sides made a raft of substitutions just after the hour mark, and one of them got Stanley back in the game with a stunning strike.

Adedoyin picked the ball up 25 yards out and unleashed a fierce effort which left Eastwood with no chance.

After both sides regrouped, Moore thumped a header over from Brannagan’s clipped corner.

The second half was far less action-packed than the first but Murphy tested Jensen with a 25-yard strike, which the Stanley stopper elected to fist away for a corner which came to nothing.

Murphy continued to show glimpses of his quality, and with eight minutes to go, glided down the right before teeing up Joseph, who couldn’t keep the ball down and fired over from a central position just inside the box.

Stanley completed the second half comeback though when Pressley stooped in at the back post to head in unmarked.

Oxford United (4-2-3-1): Eastwood; Long, Moore, Findlay, Brown (Fleming 63); Brannagan, McGuane; Goodrham, Bodin (O’Donkor 61), Browne (Murphy 61); Joseph.

Unused subs: McGinty, Anderson, Smyth, Wildschut.

Booked: Joseph.

Accrington Stanley (3-4-1-2): Jensen; Nottingham (Quirk 28), Tharme (Longelo 21), Rodgers; O’Brien, Coyle, Hamilton, McConville (Nolan 61); Mancini (Adedoyin 61); Butler-Oyedeji (Whalley 61), Pressley.

Unused subs: Savin, Patrick.

Booked: Coyle, Hamilton.

Referee: Sam Allison (Wiltshire)

Attendance: 10,499 (TBC visitors)