{"id":658610,"date":"2025-08-25T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=658610"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:24:12","slug":"team-news-form-and-prediction-as-oxford-united-welcome-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/25\/team-news-form-and-prediction-as-oxford-united-welcome-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Team News, Form and Prediction as Oxford United Welcome Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having lost their opening three league games, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/24\/oxford-united-ben-davies-peter-kioso-birmingham\/\" target=\"_self\">Oxford United<\/a> switch their focus to the Carabao Cup but face a tough test against Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>The U&#8217;s have suffered defeats against Portsmouth, Hull and Birmingham in the Championship this season but edged past Colchester in the first round of this competition.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<\/p>\n<h2>Oxford United Welcome Brighton<\/h2>\n<h3>Team News, Form and Prediction<\/h3>\n<p>As for Brighton, this is just their third competitive fixture of the new campaign but they are yet to win following a 1-1 draw at home against Fulham on the opening day of the Premier League and a 2-0 loss at Everton on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford welcomed back Brian De Keersmaecker and Przemyslaw Placheta from injury at St. Andrew&#8217;s, but key defender Ciaron Brown and recent signing Ben Davies are both absent.<\/p>\n<p>The Seagulls are without Adam Webster, Julio Enciso and Solly March for the trip to Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first meeting between the sides since they met in this competition in 2016, which the visitors won 4-2 at Grenoble Road. However, that was a first win in the previous eight meetings between the two clubs, with Oxford winning five.<\/p>\n<p>Predicted line-up: Jamie Cumming, Brodie Spencer, Elliott Moore, Sam Long, Hidde ter Avest, Brian De Keersmaecker, Cameron Brannagan, Jack Currie, Stan Mills, Tyler Goodrham, Will Lankshear.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction: Oxford United 1-2 Brighton &amp; Hove Albion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having lost their opening three league games, Oxford United switch their focus to the Carabao Cup but face a tough test against Brighton. The U&#8217;s have suffered defeats against Portsmouth, Hull and Birmingham in the Championship this season but edged past Colchester in the first round of this competition. Read More: Oxford United Welcome Brighton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":650845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[8430,1265,33,32],"tags":[1602],"class_list":["post-658610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-championship","category-league-football","tag-carabao-cup"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658610","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=658610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658611,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658610\/revisions\/658611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}