Oxford United vs Sheffield United

EFL Championship Matchweek 7 - Saturday 27th September 2025 - 15:00 - Kassam Stadium
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Referee: Benjamin Speedie
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[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Peck is fantastic at losing the ball in dangerous positions

 

[drblade]

I’ve been watching United for 45 years and I have to say this team is absolutely dreadful.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Soumare a obligation if we go up isn't he?! Well some luck there I guess.

Not replacing Souza is the heart of all issues more than any management the board or managers

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

In Wednesday speak we're winning 0-0!

 

[biggiesablade]

I’ve been watching United for 45 years and I have to say this team is absolutely dreadful.

I've been watching 45 minute and your bang on

 

[Sheffsteel]

I’ve been watching United for 45 years and I have to say this team is absolutely dreadful.

It’s as though the players are thinking…..a draw wouldn’t be a bad result….so no need to take risks.
Let’s be honest here….Oxford look really low quality and have hardly threatened…
.however the worrying thing is they seem harder working and more up for it than us.

 

[Champagneblade]

Is it 4-2-3-1 or 3-5-1-1 or something like?

 

[RobboBlade]

I doubt he would with our lack of service and quality

He wouldnt as he wouldtnt get any service ffs

At least you can go long to him he guaranteed wins a few headers get bodies around him

Campbell is like a training cone and bringing Cannon on means the white flag is out

None of our strikers have any outstanding attributes. They’re not quick, tall, strong or able to dribble past a man. Same with the wingers and most of our players.

Just average (at best) at everything

 

[Stannington Blade]

What Selles did to this team will be studied on coaching courses for generations.

 

[Montymagic]

Absolutely zero chance we are staying up

 

[coolasanidiot]

Soumare looks whacked, Peck looks dreadful. If Tom Davies is only 25% fit he needs to enter the fray.

 

[Bobby b]

Oxford are the better side, with a lot more threat. Our midfield look overrun again, theres no ball control, easy passes are going astray, no convincing tackles, and no real pattern to our play, but we're not losing.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Campbell chance the only real chance for both sides and I thought it was flying in.

Confidence is low. Need to take chances like that to fix it

 

[fifty shades of blade]

What Selles did to this team will be studied on coaching courses for generations.

Can't keep blaming Selles. The players are grown adults, professional footballers, they need to start playing like it and stop sulking like.fckin toddlers

 

[Silkblade]

McBurnie again btw for Hull

here we go again

 

[Stannington Blade]

Can't keep blaming Selles. The players are grown adults, professional footballers, they need to start playing like it and stop sulking like.fckin toddlers

Very true. Now moving forward they need to step up but how this has happened in such a short amount of time is (if it was any other team) fascinating.

 

[Espania blade]

I’ve been watching United for 45 years and I have to say this team is absolutely dreadful.

Didn't you watch us descend into league one ?

 

[Railway Blade]

Pecks playing awful, can't understand why Soumare is playing wideish left most of the time. How can Campbell shoot wide from the centre of the goal 6 yards out !!.
In short that was bobah.

 

[originaltrueblade]

Get Soumari off completely lost. Not one shot on target against the mighty Oxford

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

Let's be clear, this was coming since January last year. It's just we were able to score a few goals whereas this year we aren't (like that Campbell chance).

The team is so far off upper championship in all areas. Mobility, technique, tactics.

 

[bakeblade]

I think we're seeing why Soumare hasn't been starting. He's been poor

He's been awful after a decent first mins, he's now hiding and needs to come off.

 

[BobbyDavison'sDebut]

Another 45 minutes of football where we don't register a shot on target

 

[RobboBlade]

What Selles did to this team will be studied on coaching courses for generations.

Absolute madness to blame this on Selles alone.

This is what we were like a lot of games last season see our form post Coventry (H) and many games we scraped before that.

We were right to go away from Wilder but wrong to get Selles. Both can be true

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

It appears Sellés has stolen their souls

 

[Peaktrade]

I just don’t get why Peck gets picked - last season stats 45 games, 2 assists 0 goals…. He had vinni mooping up after him too..

This season, awful!

 

[drblade]

Didn't you watch us descend into league one ?

Yep. Also watched us descend into Division 4. This is as bad as anything I’ve seen.

 

[SB_90]

there have been some bright spells when it worked but for majority. we have been far too poor in possession, Turnover far too easy. dreadful passing & defensive clearances that just go straight back to Oxford for another wave

where has last seasons campbell gone. i was saying on the drive here. he's gone from 1 of best in championship to last week. not even being the best person called tyrese campbell on the pitch

 

[Berkshire Blade]

I just don’t get why Peck gets picked - last season stats 45 games, 2 assists 0 goals…. He had vinni mooping up after him too..

This season, awful!

If blaster was fit he wouldn't have been anything other than a sub

 

[Chezzy Blades]

Another 45 minutes of football where we don't register a shot on target

I'm sure I read a stat the other day that said we've only had 2 shots on target away from home all season.

 

[Ginger Gnome]

Is it 4-2-3-1 or 3-5-1-1 or something like?

It's a mess, not sure the players even know really.

Whenever we defend Tanganga, McGuinness and Mee form a very narrow middle three, with Ogbenie and Burrows also tucked in a bit at full back, so a back five that still leaves acres of space out wide to get a cross in.

In attack, Ogbene is usually missing as he's been back defending, O'Hare is running around up front but never in a position to link up with Cambell, Hamer is strolling around 50 yards further back and occasionally filling in at right back if Ogbene does push forward. Peck and Soumare are in what I'm guessing is supposed to be in a flat three with Gus but are mostly just giving it away, more of a double Monty than a double pivot.

The main issue under Selles was the midfield didn't function, protect the defence or create anything, Wilder has managed to reinvent it so that is doesn't function, protect the defence or create anything in a completely different way.