{"id":662745,"date":"2025-12-31T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=662745"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:49:32","slug":"oxford-united-team-injury-news-ipswich-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/12\/31\/oxford-united-team-injury-news-ipswich-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Oxford United Team and Injury News for Ipswich Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxford United<\/a> have no new injury concerns for their trip to Ipswich but morale will be down after defeat against Swansea.<\/p>\n

The U’s beat Southampton on Boxing Day but failed to capitalise against the Swans.<\/p>\n

As for Ipswich, they have a few players sidelined but are fresh off a 2-0 win on the road at league leaders, Coventry.<\/p>\n

Read More:<\/strong> John Terry, John O\u2019Shea, Liam Manning: Those Linked With Oxford United Manager Role<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest Oxford United Team and Injury News for Trip to Ipswich<\/h2>\n

Oxford United Injury News<\/h3>\n

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

Winger Matt Phillips remains sidelined with a thigh injury. The former Scotland international has been out since September.<\/p>\n

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

Skipper Cameron Brannagan is another who is still absent and the U’s are desperate for his return. Oxford have struggled in midfield since his injury but he should be back in action soon.<\/p>\n

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

Dutch full-back Hidde ter Avest is another who is still on the treatment table as he recovers from a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Ben Davies<\/strong> – Knock<\/p>\n

There is still no update on defender Ben Davies but the Rangers loanee has missed the last two games under caretaker boss, Craig Short.<\/p>\n

Ipswich Injury News<\/h3>\n

Harry Clarke<\/strong> – Knee<\/p>\n

Defender Harry Clarke has struggled with a knee injury since April. His future at his hometown club is in doubt as a result.<\/p>\n

George Hirst<\/strong> – Groin<\/p>\n

Striker George Hirst missed the trip to Coventry with a groin injury. Despite his absence, the Tractor Boys still managed a 2-0 win against the league leaders.<\/p>\n

Conor Townsend<\/strong> – Knee<\/p>\n

Defender Conor Townsend has been missing since pre-season with a knee injury. The full-back is expected to miss the majority of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Ipswich’s Returning Players<\/h3>\n

Sammie Szmodics<\/strong> – Illness<\/p>\n

Forward Sammie Szmodics underwent knee surgery at the end of October and missed the reverse fixture against the U’s. However, he missed the Coventry game due to illness.<\/p>\n

Leif Davis<\/strong> – Illness<\/p>\n

Like Szmodics, left-back Leif Davis missed the games at the CBS Arena with illness.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

Oxford United have no new injury concerns for their trip to Ipswich but morale will be down after defeat against Swansea. The U’s beat Southampton on Boxing Day but failed to capitalise against the Swans. As for Ipswich, they have a few players sidelined but are fresh off a 2-0 win on the road at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":662748,"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":[8430,33,32,1830,32859,30],"tags":[1397,32672,32628],"class_list":["post-662745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-championship","category-league-football","category-injuries","category-ipswich-town","category-news","tag-ipswich-town","tag-ipswich-town-injury-news","tag-oxford-united-injury-news"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662745","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=662745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662749,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662745\/revisions\/662749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}