{"id":634881,"date":"2024-01-28T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=634881"},"modified":"2024-01-28T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T18:04:56","slug":"oxford-united-two-losses-two-departures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/28\/oxford-united-two-losses-two-departures\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Two League Losses and Two Loan Departures"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been another disappointing week for Oxford United<\/a> with Des Buckingham’s side losing against Barnsley and Bristol Rovers.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, a U’s youngster has left on loan while a fringe goalkeeper has returned to a former club.<\/p>\n

Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Double Defeats and Double Departure<\/h2>\n

U’s Youngster Joins Conference South Side<\/h3>\n

Oxford youngster Josh Johnson has joined National League South side, Welling United.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old has managed just seven appearances for the U’s but is yet to make his league debut for the club.<\/p>\n

Oxford United Goalkeeper Linked With League of Ireland Return<\/h3>\n

Ed McGinty was set to rejoin former club Sligo Rovers on loan, according to Neil O’Riordan.<\/a><\/p>\n

The former Ireland U21 international was wanted by Bohemians and Dundalk ahead of the new campaign but his former club were favourites to sign him.<\/p>\n

Defeat Against the Tykes<\/h3>\n

Oxford suffered yet another home defeat against a promotion rival with a 1-0 loss against Barnsley.<\/p>\n

In difficult conditions, the Tykes literally weathered the storm better than the U’s and took the lead midway through the first half.<\/p>\n

Oxford, and Cameron Brannagan in particular, had several chances in the second half but failed to find the back of the net.<\/p>\n

Return to Former Club for McGinty<\/h3>\n

McGinty then made a return to his former club, Sligo Rovers.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old, who joined the U’s in the summer of 2022, has managed just three appearances so far so the loan move will present him with some needed game time.<\/p>\n

Oxford United vs Northampton Rearranged<\/h3>\n

Oxford United’s home fixture against Northampton has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 20.<\/p>\n

The U’s saw their original fixture postponed due to a frozen pitch.<\/p>\n

League Loss Against the Gas<\/h3>\n

On the pitch, Oxford suffered a second defeat of the week with defeat on the road at Bristol Rovers.<\/p>\n

The U’s were two goals down after just 22 minutes and although they reduced the deficit after the break, Rovers restored their two-goal advantage to take all three points.<\/p>\n

The result sees Oxford drop out of the playoffs for just the second time since matchday three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been another disappointing week for Oxford United with Des Buckingham’s side losing against Barnsley and Bristol Rovers. Elsewhere, a U’s youngster has left on loan while a fringe goalkeeper has returned to a former club. Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Double Defeats and Double Departure U’s Youngster Joins Conference South Side Oxford youngster Josh Johnson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":634883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[1721,504],"class_list":["post-634881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-league-football","category-league12","tag-barnsley","tag-bristol-rovers"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634881","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=634881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}