Plymouth boss Wayne Rooney knows his job is under threat after the 2-0 defeat at fellow Championship strugglers Oxford.
Argyle have suffered six defeats in their last seven matches, picking up just one point in that time, leaving them bottom of the table.
Rooney hopes to still be at the helm for the New Year’s Day game against Bristol City, despite a section of the Plymouth fans joining Oxford supporters in chanting “sacked in the morning”.
The former Manchester United and England striker said: “You have to look at every possible outcome, that’s normal with the results we’re going through.
“You have to feel ‘do we have the players to turn it around? Can I turn it around? Can the coaching staff turn it around?’
“I’ll go back and try to prepare for Bristol but ultimately I know football and how it works.
“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.
“I know the work we’re doing is good work. Unfortunately we’re not getting the results.”
Ciaron Brown and Przemyslaw Placheta scored a goal in each half to give Oxford back-to-back wins for only the second time this season.
Rooney added: “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 was delighted to pick up his second successive win as the new boss at the Kassam Stadium.
Rowett said: “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.”
