Against the run of play the home side took the lead on 17 minutes when the Dale defence failed to clear a corner and defender Jon Ashton smashed the ball home from 12 yards.
Rochdale equalised with the final effort of the half as a flowing move down the right ended with an inch perfect header by Ernie Cooksey.
Again in the second half Rochale were much the better side but having created decent openings wasted them with Chris Dagnall and Ricky Lambert the guilty parties.
The real black spot for the day saw one of three debutants Mark Jackson stretchered off midway through the second half with serious ankle ligament damage after he landed awkwardly having won a header. Tweet
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"Rochdale's inability to turn overwhelming superiority into goals cost them two points in a game that they controlled against an Oxford side clearly lacking confidence and cohesion.
Against the run of play the home side took the lead..."
I take it that the person who wrote the above guff wasn't actually at the game? These comments certainly bore no relation to the match that I and at least 3,740 witnessed. I understand that you have a need to big up your local teams, but to display such utter bias surely goes against journalistic ethics - shouldn't the truth come first? Or are you a tabloid?