{"id":668080,"date":"2026-04-10T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=668080"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:27:36","slug":"team-news-form-predicted-line-up-oxford-united-welcome-watford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/04\/10\/team-news-form-predicted-line-up-oxford-united-welcome-watford\/","title":{"rendered":"Team News, Form and Predicted Line-Up as Oxford United Welcome Watford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/04\/10\/oxford-united-team-injury-news-visit-watford\/\" target=\"_self\">Oxford United<\/a> will be looking to secure a vital three points on Saturday when Matt Bloomfield&#8217;s side welcome Watford.<\/p>\n<p>The U&#8217;s drew at Portsmouth last time out, but despite conceding a late equaliser, they have lost just once from their last seven games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/04\/10\/oxford-united-team-injury-news-visit-watford\/\" target=\"_self\">Latest Oxford United Team and Injury News for Visit of Watford\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Oxford United Welcome Watford<\/h2>\n<h3>Team News, Form and Predicted Line-Up<\/h3>\n<p>The Hornets also drew last time out with Charlton earning a point at Vicarage Road. However, Ed Still&#8217;s side hasn&#8217;t won in three and have just one victory in their last six.<\/p>\n<p>Watford have the third-best home record in the division but have picked up just four wins on their travels. That said, the U&#8217;s have only five wins at Grenoble Road and face more crucial home fixtures before the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Will Lankshear notched his ninth league goal of the campaign at Pompey while Brodie Spencer scored his first U&#8217;s goal in the same game.<\/p>\n<p>Luca Kjerrumgaard has ten Championship goals for Watford but hasn&#8217;t found the net in his last six games. Skipper Imr\u00e2n\u00a0Louza has seven, one of which came in their last away game at QPR.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Goodrham and Brian De Keersmaecker remain sidelined with long-term injuries but there could be a return for Jack Currie and Aidomo Emakhu.<\/p>\n<p>Watford have several injuries, including Marc Bola, James Abankwah, Stephen Mfuni, Jeremy Ngakia, Othmane Maamma, Hector Kyprianou, Rocco Vata and Pierre Dwomoh.<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets won the reverse fixture at Vicarage Road but the U&#8217;s won when the sides last met at Grenoble Road. However, that was Oxford&#8217;s only win in the last nine meetings, with Watford winning six.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Bloomfield has only faced Watford once as a manager and his Luton side suffered a 2-0 defeat at Vicarage Road in the M1 derby.<\/p>\n<h3>Oxford United Predicted Line-Up<\/h3>\n<p>Jamie Cumming<\/p>\n<p>Sam Long<\/p>\n<p>Michal Helik<\/p>\n<p>Ciaron Brown<\/p>\n<p>Brodie Spencer<\/p>\n<p>Yunus Konak<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Brannagan<\/p>\n<p>Stan Mills<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Donley<\/p>\n<p>Myles Peart-Harris<\/p>\n<p>Will Lankshear<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prediction: Oxford United 1-1 Watford<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image courtesy of SmartFrame\/Focus Images Limited\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford United will be looking to secure a vital three points on Saturday when Matt Bloomfield&#8217;s side welcome Watford. The U&#8217;s drew at Portsmouth last time out, but despite conceding a late equaliser, they have lost just once from their last seven games. Read More: Latest Oxford United Team and Injury News for Visit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":668084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":true,"sfio_embed_code":"<smartframe-embed customer-id=\"e8c3ce70f1ad837bdffb21e2453272b6\" image-id=\"XhXPwjOwDjvS\" style=\"width: 100%;aspect-ratio: 1.5;max-width: 8256px\"><\/smartframe-embed><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support -->","_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":[8430,33,32,30,25],"tags":[32600],"class_list":["post-668080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-championship","category-league-football","category-news","category-watford","tag-oxford-united-predicted-line-up"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668080","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=668080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668087,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668080\/revisions\/668087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}