PREVIEW Oxford United U19 v Newport County U19

Young U's prepare for first home game

26 August 2022

Oxford United's under 19s look to build on an encouraging week as they take on Newport County in their first home game of the season.

The U’s were 3-0 winners at local rivas Swindon last weekend and with a number of their players stepping up to play for the senior team in midweek it has been a good week, as Coach Chris Hackett told us

“We came back from our trip to Italy in good spirits and it was important we kept that going in the opening game. We played well last Saturday and then Josh Johnson and Gatlin O’Donkor doing so well for the senior team was a nice bonus for us.

"They are both very grounded and will just keep training hard and trying to do well for us, hoping to get more chances in the senior side I am sure.

“Now we want to finish the week on another good performance.”

Amari Davis-Stephenson is the one absentee with a knee injury sustained in pre-season.

The game takes place at the Bangkok Glass Training Centre and kicks off at 11am.

Match Reports

REPORT Oxford United U18 0 Newport County U18 2

Young U's lose first home game

27 August 2022

Oxford United’s under 18s were beaten 2-0 by Newport County this morning in their first home game of the Youth Alliance season.

Having won their opening game away at Swindon the U’s failed to build on a promising start today as Coach Chris Hackett told us

“We started strongly enough and had the first couple of chances of the game but then we didn’t build on that.

"Obviously it is very early days and its only our second game but you need that consistency in your performances and maybe a result like this early on just allows us to get a few points across nice and early for the rest of the season.”

United
Marriott, Sankoh, Gerrard, Took-Oxley, Franklin, Zabeli, Elliott-Wheeler, Tiamuna, Iheanacho, Johnson, Brenan

Subs
Smith, Maxwell, Bradney, Burton, Fowler