Plymouth manager Wayne Rooney is feeling the pressure after a 2-0 loss to Oxford, acknowledging his position is precarious as the team languishes at the bottom of the Championship. Argyle's recent form has been dismal, with only one point from the last seven games, and Rooney is aware of the discontent among fans, some of whom joined Oxford supporters in chants predicting his dismissal.

The former Derby County boss reflected on the situation: "You have to look at every possible outcome, that’s normal with the results we’re going through."

He questioned whether there was potential for a turnaround with the current squad and coaching staff, adding, "I’ll go back and try to prepare for Bristol but ultimately I know football and how it works."

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Rooney empathised with the fans' frustrations, saying, "I understand the fans. I’ve been there myself. As a fan you want to see your team win, to see your team running, making tackles and when your team is losing games, as we are, the frustration is there. I get it."

Despite the poor results, he believes in the work being done behind the scenes: "I know the work we’re doing is good work. Unfortunately we’re not getting the results."

Oxford's victory, with goals from Ciaron Brown and Przemyslaw Placheta, marked their second consecutive win this season. Rooney conceded, "It wasn’t good enough. We didn’t create enough chances, the goals we conceded – we didn’t do enough to stop them scoring goals."

"Defensively this has been going on for a few weeks now. We’ve been trying to score goals but we didn’t hurt them enough today."

"We’ve done a lot of work on trying to stop crosses, get tight enough to stop them and second phases at corners but that’s where the first goal came."

"The second goal they break out and we don’t do well enough defensively in a one-on-one situation."

"I expected a bit more today but didn’t get it. That’s football. I’m always a balanced person, win, lose or draw but it hurts, and it’s hard to take the run of games we’re on."

"We had a couple of players who probably shouldn’t have played today, they played through the pain barrier."

Oxford boss Gary Rowett expressed his satisfaction after securing his second consecutive victory since taking charge at the Kassam Stadium.

Rowett remarked: "What I liked about it was I thought it was a step up from the performance the other day."

"I thought we moved the ball really well first half, and thought we did it for longer, had better periods of control and created some good opportunities."

"We were maybe a little bit unlucky first half not to maybe get another goal."

"I thought we defended better and our shape was a little more diligent, and we still looked a threat."