{"id":664978,"date":"2026-02-09T05:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=664978"},"modified":"2026-02-09T05:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:40:13","slug":"team-news-form-predicted-line-up-oxford-united-welcome-norwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/02\/09\/team-news-form-predicted-line-up-oxford-united-welcome-norwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Team News, Form and Predicted Line-Up as Oxford United Welcome Norwich"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxford United<\/a> will be looking for their first win in four when Matt Bloomfield’s side welcome Norwich to Grenoble Road on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The U’s lost against Birmingham and Sheffield United before a credible goalless draw on the road at league leaders Coventry last time out.<\/p>\n

Read More<\/strong>: Latest Oxford United Team and Injury News for Norwich Clash\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Oxford United Welcome Norwich<\/h2>\n

Team News, Form and Predicted Line-Up<\/h3>\n

Norwich were also at the wrong end of the table just a few weeks ago, but a run of four wins from five has seen them move away from danger. Philippe Clement has eight wins and three draws from his 16 league games in charge while the Canaries have suffered just one defeat in their last six away matches.<\/p>\n

Oxford are without their top scorer Will Lankshear after he was handed a second yellow card in the draw at Coventry. Jovon Makama is Norwich’s top scorer with ten league goals but could be a doubt.<\/p>\n

In addition to Lankshear, the U’s are without long-term absentee Tyler Goodrham while Greg Leigh and Hidde ter Avest weren’t selected as part of Bloomfield’s 25-man squad. Nik Prelec, Jamie Donley and Brian De Keersmaecker remain sidelined, while Stan Mills missed the trip to the CBS Arena, but there should be a return for Jack Currie.<\/p>\n

Norwich are without up to ten players for this fixture, including Harry Amass, Ante Crnac, Shane Duffy, Amankwah Forson, Matej Jurasek and Mirko Topic.<\/p>\n

The last two meetings, which both came at Carrow Road, ended in 1-1 draws, but the U’s were victorious on the opening day of last season, winning 2-0 at Grenoble Road under Des Buckingham. That was the first meeting since 1999 when Norwich were victorious at the Manor Ground.<\/p>\n

Oxford United Predicted Line-Up<\/h3>\n

Jamie Cumming<\/p>\n

Brodie Spencer<\/p>\n

Christ Makosso<\/p>\n

Michal Helik<\/p>\n

Ciaron Brown<\/p>\n

Ruben Roosken<\/p>\n

Jamie McDonnell<\/p>\n

Cameron Brannagan<\/p>\n

Myles Peart-Harris<\/p>\n

Aidomo Emakhu<\/p>\n

Mark Harris<\/p>\n

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Prediction: Oxford United 2-1 Norwich City<\/p>\n

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

Oxford United will be looking for their first win in four when Matt Bloomfield’s side welcome Norwich to Grenoble Road on Tuesday night. The U’s lost against Birmingham and Sheffield United before a credible goalless draw on the road at league leaders Coventry last time out. Read More: Latest Oxford United Team and Injury News […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":650845,"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":[8430,33,32,30,1370],"tags":[32600],"class_list":["post-664978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-championship","category-league-football","category-news","category-norwich-city","tag-oxford-united-predicted-line-up"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664978","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=664978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664981,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664978\/revisions\/664981"}],"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=664978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}