Eastwood is ready to make U’s day

IT HASN’T been your average run to Wembley but Simon Eastwood is still preparing to enjoy Oxford’s League One Play-Off Final to the max after a semi-final like no other.

Eastwood was the hero against Pompey, saving Cameron McGeehan’s penalty in the shoot-out to seal their big night against Wycombe tomorrow.

The intervention from Eastwood, 21, was the critical moment after

210 minutes of deadlock between two sides who also finished the league season level on points.

It was an especially sweet moment for a goalkeeper who played for Portsmouth back in

2012-13.

Now, having knocked them out, he’s looking forward to one final adventure in a season like no other.

And he admits that the whole play-off experience has been surreal so far.

“The whole season has been so strange,” he said.

“When the season finished we didn’t think that there were even going to be any play-offs.

“We thought that was that, really.

“All of a sudden you wake-up and read on

Twitter that we’re going to be playing again.

“It went from zero to a hundred really quickly.”