Morecambe vs Oxford United Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Morecambe

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Morecambe won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 1-4 League One defeat last time out to Charlton Athletic.

The only player to score from Morecambe was Donald Love (61'). Miles Leaburn (17'), Corey Blackett-Taylor (21', 43') and Scott Fraser (69') scored for Charlton Athletic.

Morecambe have really been misfiring in recent times. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 4 against opposing sides over the course of their previous six outings. In those meetings, Morecambe have also seen the tally of goals scored against them come to 9.

Going into this encounter, Morecambe have not lost a league tie with Oxford United in their previous 2 games.

Oxford United

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Derby County in League One competition, Oxford United will be hoping to turn things around here.

For Oxford United, the goals were scored by Sam Long (14', 61' Own goal) and Kyle Joseph (90'). Louie Sibley (23', 40') scored for Derby County.

The attacking players from Oxford United have been starved of goals over their last six clashes, netting the poor return of just 4. In those fixtures, The U's have also seen the overall goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 12. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this match, of course.

Ahead of this clash, Oxford United are without an away win for the past 5 league games.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 03/03/2015 shows us that Morecambe have won 1 of them and Oxford United 2, with the tally of draws being 3.

In all, 17 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 7 of them from The Shrimps and 10 netted by The U's. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was League One match day 5 on 20/08/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Oxford United 1-1 Morecambe.

The referee was Ben Speedie.

📋 Team News: Morecambe

The Morecambe manager Derek Adams will be grateful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this clash thanks to a completely injury-free squad available to choose from.

📰 Team News: Oxford United

Owing to an otherwise healthy squad, there is just a single fitness issue for the Oxford United manager Liam Manning to be concerned with. Stephan Negru (Ankle Injury) won’t be in action.

💭 Prediction

We think that Morecambe will do well to score goals against this Oxford United team who should score at least once to gain the upper hand.

Therefore, we predict a very competitive game with a 0-1 winning score for Oxford United at the end of the match.

Let’s see.

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Lucas Pereira, 02:26 14/03/2023