Oxford United vs Cambridge United Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Oxford United

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Oxford United will be wanting a better result here following the 1-0 League One defeat in their last game at the hands of Derby County.

Conor Hourihane (80') scored for Derby County.

It has been seldom in recent games that Oxford United have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Oxford United have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 8 goals in the process.

Their prior results show that Oxford United:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Cambridge United in their last 5 games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Cambridge United

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Cambridge United will go into the match following a 1-0 EFL Cup win to defeat Millwall in their last outing.

In that game, Cambridge United managed 50% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Cambridge United was Liam O'Neil (59'). On the other side, Millwall got 15 shots at goal with 1 on target.

Throughout their six previous matches, Mark Bonner's Cambridge United have managed to stick the ball in the net 7 times thus earning them the goals per game average of 1.17.

Coming into this meeting, Cambridge United have not emerged victorious against Oxford United in games played away from home for the previous 5 league matches. Not the best of away records.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 14/11/2015 shows that Oxford United have won 3 of these games & Cambridge United 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 2.

A sum of 15 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 8 from The U's and 7 coming from The U's. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.

🗞️ Team News: Oxford United

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just the sole fitness concern for the Oxford United manager Karl Robinson to contend with thanks to an otherwise robust squad. Alex Gorrin (Knee Injury) will miss out.

🗞️ Team News: Cambridge United

Out of a mainly healthy group of players, there’s only the lone fitness problem for the Cambridge United manager Mark Bonner to contend with. Fejiri Okenabirhie (Achilles tendon rupture) won’t be playing here.

💭 Prediction

In our opinion, Cambridge United will likely create enough chances to find the back of the net against this Oxford United lineup, but that probably won’t quite be enough to prevent defeat.

We’re going for a close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Oxford United by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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Renata Leite, 02:50 02/08/2022