{"id":662607,"date":"2025-12-25T03:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=662607"},"modified":"2025-12-25T03:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T08:25:32","slug":"oxford-united-team-injury-news-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/12\/25\/oxford-united-team-injury-news-southampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Oxford United Team and Injury News for Southampton Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxford United<\/a> will be looking for just a second win in 11 games when Southampton visit Grenoble Road on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n

The U’s don’t have any new injury concerns for the game but the Saints have a few players sidelined.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/strong>: Oxford United Sack Gary Rowett<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest Oxford United Team and Injury News for Visit of Southampton<\/h2>\n

Oxford United Injury News<\/h3>\n

Matt Phillips<\/strong> – Thigh<\/p>\n

Maybe the closest to a return is winger, Matt Phillips. The former Scotland international has been back on the grass but there hasn’t been a return date given. However, it was the same with Brodie Spencer but the defender played last time out against Preston.<\/p>\n

Cameron Brannagan<\/strong> – Calf<\/p>\n

Skipper Cameron Brannagan is still absent with a calf injury, but he is back in training<\/a>. The U’s are in desperate need for the midfielder to return with Oxford short of players in that area.<\/p>\n

Hidde ter Avest<\/strong> – Hamstring<\/p>\n

Full-back Hidde ter Avest remains sidelined with a hamstring injury. Again, there isn’t a return date set.<\/p>\n

Oxford’s Returning Players<\/h3>\n

As mentioned, Brodie Spencer made his return from injury last time out, as did Przemyslaw Placheta from the bench.<\/p>\n

Southampton Injury News<\/h3>\n

Damion Downs<\/strong> – Knock<\/p>\n

USMNT striker Damion Downs has been absent since picking up an injury during a 3-0 win over Leicester at the back end of November.<\/p>\n

Elias Jelert<\/strong> – Quad<\/p>\n

Danish defender Elias Jelert picked up a quad injury in a goalless draw against Swansea back in October.<\/p>\n

Mads Roerslev<\/strong> – Knee<\/p>\n

The Saints are without another right-back in Mads Roerslev. The former Brentford man last played against Sheffield Wednesday at the start of November.<\/p>\n

Ross Stewart<\/strong> – Hamstring<\/p>\n

Former boss Will Still said that Scottish striker Ross Stewart would be out for “a substantial period<\/a>” with a hamstring injury. The former Sunderland man isn’t expected back until the new year.<\/p>\n

Samuel Edozie<\/strong> – Hamstring<\/p>\n

Twenty-two-year-old winger Samuel Edozie is yet to feature this season with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Shea Charles<\/strong> – Hamstring<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland international Shea Charles has been out with a hamstring injury since the back of October during a game against Blackburn.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Featured image courtesy of IMAGO \/ Pro Sports Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oxford United will be looking for just a second win in 11 games when Southampton visit Grenoble Road on Boxing Day. The U’s don’t have any new injury concerns for the game but the Saints have a few players sidelined. Read More: Oxford United Sack Gary Rowett Latest Oxford United Team and Injury News for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":657916,"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":[8430,33,32,1830,30,20],"tags":[32628,32687],"class_list":["post-662607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-championship","category-league-football","category-injuries","category-news","category-southampton","tag-oxford-united-injury-news","tag-southampton-injury-news"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662607","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=662607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662608,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662607\/revisions\/662608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}