📏 Form Guide

Oxford United

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Oxford United will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 0-1 League One defeat last time out to Lincoln City.

Danny Mândroiu (47') was the scorer for Lincoln City.

A recurring feature of more recent Oxford United games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

From their previous sextet of clashes before this one, in as many as 5 of them a wager on both teams scoring would've been a losing one.

Ahead of this clash, Oxford United have not been beaten in the league by Stevenage in their last 5 matches.

Stevenage

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Burton Albion in League One action, Stevenage will be aiming to make amends here.

The only name on the scoresheet from Stevenage was Kane Hemmings (88'). Mark Helm (45') and Tom Hamer (76') scored for Burton Albion.

Steve Evans's Stevenage have found the back of the net a total of 5 times throughout their latest sextet of matches. The number of goals that they have conceded during that period adds up to 6.

Pre-game facts show that Stevenage:

• have not registered a win against Oxford United in away games against them for the last 2 league games.
• remain undefeated by Oxford United when they've played them away from home in the last 3 matches in the league.
• have not won away from home in their last 7 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 20/09/2014 shows that Oxford United have won 3 of these and Stevenage 1, with the number of drawn results being 2.

In all, 17 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 12 of them for The U's and 5 being from Boro. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The last league clash featuring these sides was League One match day 10 on 30/09/2023 when it finished Stevenage 1-3 Oxford United.

The referee was Carl Brook.

🗞️ Team News: Oxford United

The Oxford United manager Des Buckingham doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash owing to a fully injury-free group to choose from.

ℹ️ Team News: Stevenage

Owing to a completely healthy group available for selection, the Stevenage manager Steve Evans has no fitness worries to report coming into this match.

🔮 Prediction

Stevenage have enough to break down this Oxford United team, although that is unlikely to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We’re tipping a 2-1 victory for Oxford United at full-time. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 18:01 19/04/2024