{"id":647717,"date":"2024-10-25T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=647717"},"modified":"2024-10-24T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T05:40:07","slug":"team-news-form-prediction-oxford-united-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/10\/25\/team-news-form-prediction-oxford-united-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Team News, Form and Prediction as Oxford United Travel to Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxford United<\/a> switch their attention from back-to-back home games when the U’s travel to Sunderland.<\/p>\n

Des Buckingham’s side drew against West Brom<\/a> and Derby at Grenoble Road. That’s now five successive draws in a row and while that’s five games unbeaten, it is also six games without a win after defeat at Bristol City<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

Oxford United Travel to Sunderland<\/h2>\n

Team News, Form and Prediction<\/h3>\n

Sunderland sat top of the table after ten league games with seven wins and one draw. They were in action on Wednesday night with a trip to Luton, which ended in another victory to give themselves a three-point cushion<\/a> over Burnley.<\/p>\n

The Black Cats are also the highest-scoring side in the division with 21 but have conceded the most of any teams in the top five, with nine.<\/p>\n

Oxford’s injury concerns continue with Siriki Dembele being forced off against Derby. He joins fellow wingers Kyle Edwards, Przemyslaw Placheta and Matt Phillips on the sidelines, although there was a welcome return for midfielder, Josh McEachran.<\/p>\n

Sunderland also have several players absent, including Eliezer Mayenda, Dan Ballard and Ian Poveda.<\/p>\n

Although Oxford have picked up points in their last two aways games, the search for a first victory on the road continues. That certainly won’t be easy, however, with the Black Cats winning four and drawing one of their fixtures at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n

Sunderland are unbeaten in their last five meetings against the U’s, winning four. However, the last fixture at the Stadium of Light ended in a 1-1 draw. Oxford are without a win in Wearside in six, but have picked up three draws during that run.<\/p>\n

Predicted line-up: Jamie Cumming, Ciaron Brown, Ben Nelson, Elliott Moore, Peter Kioso, Josh McEachran, Idris El Mizouni, Ruben Rodrigues, Tyler Goodrham, Owen Dale, Dane Scarlett.<\/p>\n

Prediction: Sunderland 2-1 Oxford United<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oxford United switch their attention from back-to-back home games when the U’s travel to Sunderland. Des Buckingham’s side drew against West Brom and Derby at Grenoble Road. That’s now five successive draws in a row and while that’s five games unbeaten, it is also six games without a win after defeat at Bristol City last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":641764,"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":[8430,33,32,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-championship","category-league-football","category-sunderland"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647717","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=647717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}