{"id":648627,"date":"2024-11-20T06:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=648627"},"modified":"2024-11-20T06:10:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T11:10:30","slug":"oxford-united-international-round-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/11\/20\/oxford-united-international-round-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United International Round-Up: Scarlett Scores, Kioso Makes Debut, Ferdinan Nets Brace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, it was a mixed bag for the Oxford United<\/a> players that spent the past week or so away on international duty.<\/p>\n

A couple of players got themselves on the scoresheet, while others got some valuable minutes with another making his debut.<\/p>\n

International Round-Up: Goals, Minutes and Fitness<\/h2>\n

Regular Minutes<\/h3>\n

The break began with Idris El Mizouni being called up for Tunisia for the first time since 2019, however the midfielder was an unused substitute in their 3-2 defeat away to Madagascar. Peter Kioso was also an unused substitute as DR Congo suffered a stoppage time goal in defeat against Guinea.<\/p>\n

Greg Leigh started Jamaica’s CONCACAF Nations League quarter final clash against USA but was replaced at the break with former U’s player Steve McClaren changing formation.<\/p>\n

Marselino Ferdinan played 15 minutes as Indonesia lost 4-0 at home against Japan, before Ciaron Brown played the full 90 as Northern Ireland topped their group with a 2-0 win over Belarus. However, the defender picked up a booking and missed the final game against Luxembourg through suspension.<\/p>\n

Dane Scarlett came on in the 68th minute as England U21s played out a goalless draw against Spain, while Mark Harris started for Wales in their game at Turkey, but was subbed off at the break after a head collision with teammate, Joe Rodon.<\/p>\n

New Era and Goals for Oxford United Players<\/h3>\n

Scarlett then started against the Netherlands and netted a diving header inside the opening five minutes of their 1-1 draw, with his second goal in four games for the U21s.<\/p>\n

El Mizouni earned his second cap for Tunisia and played 85 minutes in a 1-0 defeat at home against Gambia. The midfielder hasn’t played for the North African country since his debut in 2019.<\/p>\n

Leigh was back in action for the second leg against USA but came on with 30 minutes remaining in a thrilling 4-2 defeat. It means Jamaica lost 5-2 on aggregate against Mauricio Pochettino’s side.<\/p>\n

Ferdinan started in Indonesia’s World Cup qualifier against Saudi Arabia and netted both goals in their 2-0 win. He scored the opening goal of the game in the first half with a sweet strike before adding another after the restart with a cheeky chip.<\/p>\n

Kioso then made his debut for DR Congo in a 2-1 defeat at home to Ethiopia. The right back played the first half before being replaced at the break.<\/p>\n

The final game of the break saw Harris make a successive start for Wales. The striker played 65 minutes in a 4-1 win at home against Iceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, it was a mixed bag for the Oxford United players that spent the past week or so away on international duty. A couple of players got themselves on the scoresheet, while others got some valuable minutes with another making his debut. International Round-Up: Goals, Minutes and Fitness Regular Minutes The break began with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":648634,"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":[8430,33,32,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-championship","category-league-football","category-international-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648627","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=648627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}