{"id":614955,"date":"2022-07-17T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614955"},"modified":"2022-07-17T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T19:01:13","slug":"oxford-united-transfer-news-pre-season-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/17\/oxford-united-transfer-news-pre-season-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: No Transfer News and Pre-Season Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another week has passed in which <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/10\/oxford-united-slow-transfer-window\/\" target=\"_self\">Oxford United<\/a> have failed to make any new additions to their squad ahead of the new campaign. On the field, Karl Robinson&#8217;s side saw two wins against non-league opposition but suffered their first loss of pre-season with defeat against Coventry City.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc30 \ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc21\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc1d\ud835\udc2c \ud83e\uddf5<\/p>\n<p>Yep, it&#39;s stunning. \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe1\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#OUFC<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COYY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#COYY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PekZeP9gxV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/PekZeP9gxV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oxford United (@OUFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OUFCOfficial\/status\/1548310229053423616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: No New Signings and Pre-Season Results<\/h2>\n<h3>Young U&#8217;s Win at Hungerford<\/h3>\n<p>A young Oxford side continued the club&#8217;s 100 per cent winning record in pre-season friendlies with a 2-1 win at Hungerford Town.<\/p>\n<p>Trialist Jodi Jones made an impact for the U&#8217;s, assisting Oisin Smyth&#8217;s first Oxford goal with a header from a corner.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts scored immediately after the restart but young Thai attacker Ben Davis curled home the winner from 25 yards on the hour.<\/p>\n<h3>Second Win of the Week Against the Spitfires<\/h3>\n<p>A more senior side was selected against National League outfit Eastleigh and they soared past the Spitfires.<\/p>\n<p>A brace from Marcus Browne, a strike from Steve Seddon, a Cameron Brannagan penalty and a long-range effort from Jones sealed a comfortable 5-1 victory.<\/p>\n<h3>First Defeat Inflicted by Sky Blues<\/h3>\n<p>On Saturday, Oxford suffered their first defeat in pre-season with a 2-0 loss at home to Coventry City.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Jonathan Panzo netted twice for the visitors on either side of halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The U&#8217;s have seen off non-league opposition so far but struggled against their Championship opponents, with Jerome Sinclair coming the closest when his early effort struck the post.<\/p>\n<h3>Robinson Reacts to Coventry Defeat<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/sport\/20284465.oxford-united-boss-karl-robinson-assesses-display-coventry-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speaking to the Oxford Mail,<\/a> U&#8217;s boss Karl Robinson said: \u201cI don\u2019t think we got blown away, I thought it was a very even game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just two set-plays, which we start working on on Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"perform_player_container\">\n<div id=\"popup-parent-4dc830b99ae4f35fb76e2838ca-9602\">\n<div id=\"app\" class=\"player\">\n<div class=\"player__aboveVideo\">\n<p>\u201cWe have stages of our pre-season and we\u2019re still a little bit short, as you\u2019d well imagine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought the players way underperformed, I\u2019m not going to name names right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s where I know that we need to be better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Jamos (James Henry) and the Bodes (Billy Bodin) of this world, you know they\u2019re a massive goal threat and the older you are the longer it takes to get going in pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure when it starts for real in a few weeks\u2019 time you\u2019ll see a massive uplift. That won\u2019t just be us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know there\u2019s still a level we need to get to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week has passed in which Oxford United have failed to make any new additions to their squad ahead of the new campaign. On the field, Karl Robinson&#8217;s side saw two wins against non-league opposition but suffered their first loss of pre-season with defeat against Coventry City. \ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc30 \ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc21\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc1d\ud835\udc2c \ud83e\uddf5 Yep, it&#39;s stunning. \ud83d\udd25 \ud83d\udfe1\ud83d\udd35 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":614956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[8430,32,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-league-football","category-league12"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614955","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=614955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}