{"id":537456,"date":"2019-12-01T15:13:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T20:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=537456"},"modified":"2019-12-01T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T20:13:53","slug":"oxford-united-set-new-club-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/12\/01\/oxford-united-set-new-club-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United Set New Club Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/search\/Oxford+united\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxford United<\/a> have set a new club record after they managed to extend their unbeaten run to 16 in all competitions following a 1-0 win at <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.vitalfootball.co.uk\/match-report-fa-cup-walsall-0-1-oxford-united\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walsall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The FA Cup second round tie was a twelfth win during the run which was the key result in breaking their longest ever unbeaten as a Football League club.<\/p>\n<h2>Oxford United Set New Club Record<\/h2>\n<h3>Sixteen Game Unbeaten Run<\/h3>\n<p>Following defeat at <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.vitalfootball.co.uk\/match-report-league-one-fleetwood-town-2-1-oxford-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fleetwood Town<\/a> in early September, Karl Robinson&#8217;s side have been in devastating form. The U&#8217;s have won twelve games, scored 41 goals and kept ten clean sheets.<\/p>\n<p>During that run, Oxford broke another club record after securing their highest ever away victory in the Football League &#8211; a 6-0 win at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2019\/09\/22\/oxford-united-secure-record-breaking-away-day-at-lincoln-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lincoln City<\/a>. The U&#8217;s also eased past <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.vitalfootball.co.uk\/match-report-carabao-cup-oxford-united-4-0-west-ham-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Ham United<\/a> in the Carabao Cup and won four home games in succession with a 3-0 scoreline.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Robinson&#8217;s side are 6th in League One, are through to the knockout stages of the Football League Trophy, have reached the third round of the FA Cup and face <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.vitalfootball.co.uk\/manchester-city-cup-tie-sold-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City<\/a> in the last eight of the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Another impressive part of this run is that Robinson has been without some key players. <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.vitalfootball.co.uk\/robinson-gives-injury-update-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cameron Brannagan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.vitalfootball.co.uk\/on-loan-midfielder-ruled-out-until-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Thorne, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.vitalfootball.co.uk\/us-dealt-another-injury-blow\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Woodburn,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.vitalfootball.co.uk\/us-midfielder-to-miss-fa-cup-tie\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shandon Baptiste and <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxford.vitalfootball.co.uk\/oxford-lose-midfielder-for-three-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamie Hanson<\/a> have all missed large parts of this monumental run through injury.<\/p>\n<p>The league will be the priority for the U&#8217;s who were last in the tier of English football back in 1998\/99, but they remain fighting in three cup competitions.<\/p>\n<h3>How Long Can Oxford Remain Unbeaten?<\/h3>\n<p>The U&#8217;s longest ever unbeaten run was 19 games which came during the U&#8217;s first season in the Conference League. Robinson&#8217;s side face Exeter City in the Football League Trophy on Wednesday, before returning to league action at home to Shrewsbury Town. The U&#8217;s then travel to struggling MK Dons, which would equal the clubs longest ever unbeaten run if they make it that far.<\/p>\n<p>But surpassing 19 games will be difficult. The U&#8217;s welcome Manchester City on December 18, a match in which the Carabao Cup holders will be firm favourites for.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford United have set a new club record after they managed to extend their unbeaten run to 16 in all competitions following a 1-0 win at Walsall. The FA Cup second round tie was a twelfth win during the run which was the key result in breaking their longest ever unbeaten as a Football League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":527296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34],"tags":[1602,3633,166,1855,188,243,2742,136],"class_list":["post-537456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","tag-carabao-cup","tag-james-henry","tag-karl-robinson","tag-league-cup","tag-league-one","tag-oxford-united","tag-walsall","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Declan Wiseman, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}