{"id":649393,"date":"2024-12-08T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=649393"},"modified":"2024-12-08T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T18:16:12","slug":"oxford-united-plymouth-postponed-fa-cup-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/12\/08\/oxford-united-plymouth-postponed-fa-cup-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Plymouth Postponed, FA Cup Draw and Defender Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"

A somewhat quiet week for Oxford United<\/a> with their only Championship fixture falling foul to the weather at the weekend.<\/p>\n

The U’s were due to face Plymouth but gusty winds put a halt to the fixture going ahead.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Des Buckingham’s side found out their opponents in the third round of the FA Cup and a young defender has moved to a National League side on loan.<\/p>\n

Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Plymouth Postponed and Golding Goes<\/h2>\n

Oxford Draw Exeter in FA Cup<\/h3>\n

The week began with the third round draw for the FA Cup and the U’s face a trip to Exeter City.<\/p>\n

Des Buckingham’s side made the trip to Devon on the final game of last season, with a win ensuring a playoff finish.<\/p>\n

Oxford haven’t reached the fourth round of the competition since the 2019\/20 campaign when Karl Robinson’s side played out a goalless draw at Newcastle, before losing in extra time in the replay at Grenoble Road.<\/p>\n

Oxford United Defender Departs on Loan<\/h3>\n

On Friday, Oxford defender James Golding joined National League side Southend on a short-term loan.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old has already spent time away from Grenoble Road this season, with loan spells at Banbury, Dartford and Maidenhead.<\/p>\n

Even with the long-term injury to Leicester loanee, Ben Nelson, it appears that game time for the U’s remains some way off so a loan spell away will help both his development and get some much needed minutes.<\/p>\n

Plymouth Postponed<\/h3>\n

The U’s were due to face relegation rivals Plymouth at the weekend but the match was postponed due to forecast winds of up to 70mph.<\/p>\n

While it was the correct call to cancel the fixture, results went against both teams at the weekend with Coventry, Portsmouth and QPR all picking up vital wins.<\/p>\n

There were also important points gained for Luton and Preston in their fixtures against Swansea and Sheffield Wednesday, respectively.<\/p>\n

No date for the rearranged fixture has been announced at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A somewhat quiet week for Oxford United with their only Championship fixture falling foul to the weather at the weekend. The U’s were due to face Plymouth but gusty winds put a halt to the fixture going ahead. Elsewhere, Des Buckingham’s side found out their opponents in the third round of the FA Cup and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":647577,"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],"tags":[519],"class_list":["post-649393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-championship","category-league-football","tag-plymouth-argyle"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649393","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=649393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649396,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649393\/revisions\/649396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}