{"id":638633,"date":"2024-04-14T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T20:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=638633"},"modified":"2024-04-14T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T20:45:11","slug":"oxford-united-peterborough-united-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/04\/14\/oxford-united-peterborough-united-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Promotion Push Still on With Win Over Peterborough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having picked up successive 4-0 victories, Des Buckingham’s Oxford United<\/a> faced a tricky encounter this week when they welcomed promotion rivals, Peterborough.<\/p>\n

Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Striker Linked and Promotion Push Still On<\/h2>\n

U’s ‘Chasing’ Southend Striker<\/h3>\n

Oxford are one of several Football League clubs keeping an eye on Southend striker, Harry Cardwell, according to Football Insider.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Rotherham, Bolton, Exeter and Gillingham are all believed to be interested in the 27-year-old.<\/p>\n

The former Reading striker has scored 17 goals and added four assists from 37 National League appearances.<\/p>\n

Oxford Smash Promotion Rivals<\/h3>\n

Having won their last two games with successive 4-0 victories, there was much anticipation ahead of Oxford’s home game against promotion rivals, Peterborough.<\/p>\n

Mark Harris gave the U’s the lead from the spot before Josh Murphy added a second following a defensive error.<\/p>\n

Ruben Rodrigues finished off a brilliant counter attack before Owen Dale hit the post and missed a sitter before the break.<\/p>\n

Despite that, the U’s did add a fourth after the restart when Rodrigues smashed home a bullet header from a Fin Stevens cross before Billy Bodin delicately chipped a fifth goal in late on.<\/p>\n

With Lincoln losing, the U’s are now three points clear of seventh placed Blackpool, who have played a game more. They are also just two points behind fifth placed Barnsley.<\/p>\n

‘That’s Certainly the Best Football We’ve Played Since I’ve Been Here’<\/h3>\n

Understandably, U’s head coach Des Buckingham was full of praise of Oxford’s performance against the Posh.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the game<\/a>, he said: \u201cThat\u2019s certainly the best football we\u2019ve played since I\u2019ve been here.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve spoken a lot about arriving at this stage in a good space and making sure that during that period when we had all those injuries, we would put ourselves in a strong position.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen over the past couple of weeks a really clear understanding of how we want to play and what we want to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the players today were excellent across the pitch, especially considering we lost Elliott (Moore) and Cam (Brannagan) late yesterday, so full credit to them for that performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having picked up successive 4-0 victories, Des Buckingham’s Oxford United faced a tricky encounter this week when they welcomed promotion rivals, Peterborough. Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Striker Linked and Promotion Push Still On U’s ‘Chasing’ Southend Striker Oxford are one of several Football League clubs keeping an eye on Southend striker, Harry Cardwell, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":634411,"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":[185],"class_list":["post-638633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-league-football","category-league12","tag-peterborough-united"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638633","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=638633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}