A swift return to Championship football is now in serious jeopardy for Wycombe, with Ainsworth now overseeing seven games without a win after Accrington Stanley ran out 3-2 winners in Saturday’s energetic contest.
Twice Wycombe went ahead through Sam Vokes and Sullay Kaikai, and twice they were pegged back by Korede Adedoyin and Ross Sykes before Harry Pell netted the fifth and final goal of the game just after the hour mark for the disheartened Chairboys.
Ainsworth has vowed not to press the panic button as Wycombe’s wait for a first win since January 15 goes on, but their miserable streak in the month of February has left them down in eighth in the standings and three points off the playoff places.
Conceding 11 goals in their last three League One matches certainly highlights where the majority of Wycombe’s problems lie, and it is now just one win in their last seven at Adams Park, with Cambridge no stranger to famous away victories.
Normally battling for supremacy in the Boat Race or the university rankings, Oxford and Cambridge locked horns on the Kassam Stadium pitch on Saturday, where the visitors’ two-game winning streak was brought to an abrupt halt.
Like their upcoming opponents, Cambridge also went ahead twice on the day through Sam Smith before Oxford found their groove, with two late strikes from Sam Baldock and Cameron Brannagan seeing off Mark Bonner’s outfit.
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While Cambridge did at least manage to find the back of the net twice for the fourth game running, their underwhelming away form proved their Achilles’ heel once more, with that 4-2 defeat seeing them occupy 13th spot in the rankings but comfortably 13 points clear of the drop zone.
Mid-table obscurity is seemingly now the only outcome for this Cambridge side, who travel to Wycombe having failed to win any of their last five League One battles on the road and boasting only one point from the last 12 on offer against the Chairboys
