After 3 defeats on the road Oxford United were happy to be back at home, and the feel good vibes continued in the early part of this EFL Championship Season. It was a fine battling performance for Oxford United which finished Oxford United 3-1 Preston North End. Please enjoy my review of this Sky Bet Championship game.
It ended well for #OUFC but it didn’t start well as Preston took the lead early and really took the game by the scruff of the neck and could have been winning by more. Emil Riis put Preston ahead inside three minutes from close range, but Mark Harris carried on his brilliant start to the season making it 4 goals from 4 league games. 1-1 at HT, but Oxford Utd needed a bit of magic and it was provided by Tyler Goodrham to make it 2-1. Liam Lindsay saw red for North End, and then Gregg Leigh made the game comfortable for United with a tap in. A great win for Oxford and a good start to life in the Championship. For Preston things should improve under Michael Heckingbottom, but this result will Irk the Preston Fans.
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Timestamps
0:00 – Intro
1:46 – Team News
3:37 – Match Review 1st Half
8:01 – Break
8:06 – Match Review 2nd Half
11:39 – Final Thoughts Preston North End
14:09 – Final Thoughts Oxford United
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13 Comments
That felt like and important victory Oxford fans. Preston made us work hard for it, but great to get back to winning ways. Is the Kassam becoming a fortress? #OUFC & #PNEFC fans let me know your thoughts. 🐂COYY!!
Just love Tyler, baby faced assassin 😀 thought it looked like a beating after 5 mins but we showed we have the strong mental attitude to survive this league. Preston fans were good but looking at their forum they mention poor Oxford etc and blaming the ref, thats why these teams underestimate Oxford at their peril and give us hope to stay up, COYY!
Really happy for Greg Leigh to come on and score. I would have him in the starting line up every Match. Excellent result, just a shame continuity may be broken for the Int'l shut down. Fingers x things continue as they are when we return to Lge action. COYY.
Great to see that we can do the old cliche of winning when not playing at our best. That's an important asset!
Sorry to see the injury to Bennett, he was not far off MOTM for us against Blackburn last week. I like Greg Leigh a lot, but Bennett is better at the hard graft defensive stuff.
And yes, whatever doubts lots of us might have about our distant Indonesian owners, they have certainly backed Des to the hilt in this transfer window.
Blimey, Preston went off like a train and I was worried but credit to us we sorted it out and got a vital win. I thought we controlled things in the main from around 25 minutes and proved again that we can compete in this league. Thought McEachran was immense, he just never gives the ball away.
Great video
Important 3 points Ian, lets hope the break doesn't halt the momentum. The defeats away from home, haven't really felt like defeats as we were competitive (maybe not the cup match). We are always going to be under dogs this season, but you know what, Desmondo has got us playing as a team with an identity, and us Oxford love it.🙂
Good review again. I thought it was a good performance overall against the type of team that used to beat oxford. For me 3 differences in the last few months -good management, good squad and 3) better team spirit/atmosphere.
I also thought it was harsh leaving vaulkes out as he has played very well. But buckingham talked about people looking at the external results before the game, and on that note – vaulkes cost us two goals and at least 2 points, so be brave and make the change. Which over 90 mins did pay off.
Glad to see Greg Leigh, he is one of our best players. Bennet has done well, but I just think leigh is better, so its that simple really. May upset balance of team, but might be worth dropping rodrigues who hasn't really been in any of the last 3 games, move brannigan over and play leigh on the left side midfield.Then we can have both.
I also feel regardless of any injury, dembele should be in over phillips. Phillps calm, doesnt waste the ball very often, but not quite dangerous enough for me. Also on the worry list is Kioso, not really bad, but seems a bit too out of sorts defensively. I think we have enough pace in the team to put a defensively minded long there instead (although he has done well at centre back) but he is better RB. I live in leicester and their supporters rate this centre half we've signed, so hopefully he can cover for moore.
But what a season so far, and I honestly cant think of a time in the last 15 -20 years where we have had such a strong squad of players.
Great win, especially so after going a goal behind. On radio Oxford they said Tyler in his post-match interview had a teenager’s voice, but spoke with the maturity of a 45 year old man. What a man, what a goal, what a player!
Another good performance from you Ian, I am going to say this mate but Tyler can score great goals with both feet, a former legend on the wing was the same, Tyler is turning out to be Joey reincarnated, Joey was the best player I'd ever seen , he had my hairs on my arms standing on end sometimes, Tyler is starting to do the same, I couldn't go today but watched the game, and you seem to expect Tyler to produce some magic, I hate to compare anyone with Joey but he is the closest player we have ever produced to him. He is only going to get better which is awesome to think. Anyway Ian another great video yet again , an early 8th in the league. Many thanks mate
4 in 4 games for Harris. The man is in such a rich vein of form in 2024. He works so hard for the team and it’s great to see he’s finally getting the rewards. International break comes at the right time now. Can get a few players back from injury and give the newbies some more time training with their teammates
Class will always shine through OXFORD deserved to win this one. I thought the referee was poor and Preston quite dirty team if they carry on playing like that, they will get more play sent off as for Preston supporters shouting out Southern softies I think they should look at their self northern idiots if they’re gonna carry on playing like that They could’ve had another player I sent off come on you 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👏👏👏👏🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
The ref was aweful for both sides… Sh*t refs, we always get sh*t refs 🎵🎵🎶🎶💛💙💛💙