{"id":638310,"date":"2024-04-07T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=638310"},"modified":"2024-04-07T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T18:44:40","slug":"oxford-united-fleetwood-burton-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/07\/oxford-united-fleetwood-burton-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Wins, Clean Sheets and Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxford United<\/a> and frustrating weeks have gone hand in hand recently but it’s been a successful seven days for the U’s.<\/p>\n

Des Buckingham’s side have picked up comfortable wins in League One and moved back into the top six as a result.<\/p>\n

However, there is some worrying injury news ahead of the final four league games.<\/p>\n

Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Back-to-Back 4-0 Wins<\/h2>\n

Oxford Sink the Cod Army<\/h3>\n

Oxford began the week with a 4-0 victory over strugglers, Fleetwood.<\/p>\n

Cameron Brannagan gave the U’s an early lead before Mark Harris added a second.<\/p>\n

Owen Dale notched his first Oxford goal before the break while Harris added his second late on.<\/p>\n

This was the best win under Des Buckingham but with Lincoln winning again, his side remained outside the top six on goal difference.<\/p>\n

Edwards Injury Extended<\/h3>\n

Oxford winger Kyle Edwards has been ruled out of the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

The former England U20 international, who joined the U’s on loan from Ipswich in the summer, picked up a hamstring injury in November but continued his rehabilitation with the club following his release from the Championship club.<\/p>\n

As a result, Oxford signed the 26-year-old on a short-term deal until the end of the season, but he won’t feature again in this campaign.<\/p>\n

Edwards scored twice from six appearances for the U’s.<\/p>\n

Another Romp for the U’s<\/h3>\n

Oxford then matched their impressive display against Fleetwood with the same result on the road at Burton.<\/p>\n

Mark Harris struck another brace before Josh Murphy and James Henry both calmly slotted past former U’s goalkeeper Max Crocombe.<\/p>\n

The only negative will be losing Cameron Brannagan and Elliott Moore to injury, with Des Buckingham hopeful the duo will be available when the U’s welcome Peterborough next weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n

Oxford moved back into the top six after Lincoln – the team the U’s face after the Posh – dropped points at Reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oxford United and frustrating weeks have gone hand in hand recently but it’s been a successful seven days for the U’s. Des Buckingham’s side have picked up comfortable wins in League One and moved back into the top six as a result. However, there is some worrying injury news ahead of the final four league […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":638324,"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":[408,244],"class_list":["post-638310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-league-football","category-league12","tag-burton-albion","tag-fleetwood-town"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638310","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=638310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}