REPORT: Sheffield United 3 Oxford United 0

Oxford United fell to their third consecutive defeat at Bramall Lane this night as targets from Callum O’Hare, Tyrese Campbell and Jesurun Rak-Sakyi took Sheffield United to the highest of the Championship.

United made two adjustments to the aspect that misplaced to Middlesbrough on Saturday, with Elliott Moore unavailable as a consequence of selecting up his fifth yellow card of the season, Przemysław Płacheta began on the left, whereas up entrance Dane Scarlett was most popular to Mark Harris.

Regardless of United’s early endeavour, it was Sheffield United that took the lead within the tenth minute when an extended throw by captain Jack Robinson was flicked on and the ball fell completely for O’Hare, who fired dwelling. The query now was whether or not Oxford heads would drop or not.

They did not, however within the twenty sixth minute Campbell struck once more to offer United a mountain to climb. Gustavo Hamer was the architect, making a slide-rule cross by the Oxford defence. Campbell timed his run completely, took a contact to take the ball away from Cumming and slipped the ball into the empty web.

The very last thing United wanted was for Sheffield to attain a 3rd earlier than they’d an opportunity to regroup, and Hamer nearly made it three moments later, however Cumming did effectively to get down and tip his shot around the submit. Cumming denied Hamer once more after 37 minutes, palming his well-struck shot away for an additional nook.

Campbell actually ought to have scored seven minutes into the second half as he turned within the space and had time to select his spot, however he blasted his shot extensive. As an alternative, it was Rak-Sakyi who broke the offside line and with simply Cumming to beat, he had the best job to make it 3-0 and successfully finish the sport as a contest with lower than an hour gone.

Oxford appeared to offer their magnificent away supporters one thing to cheer about and Michael Cooper was known as into motion to tip over drives from Matt Phillips and Idris El Mizouni.

It has been a troublesome week for the U’s thus far and they’ll hope to show their fortunes round on Saturday after they welcome Millwall to the Kassam Stadium. The boys want your assist – see you there.

UNITED: Cumming, Lengthy, Brown, Vaulks (McEachran 74), Płacheta (El Mizouni 67), Brannagan, Goodrham (Dale 74), Rodrigues (Phillips 56), Leigh, ter Avest, Scarlett (Harris 74)

Unused subs: Ingram, Goodwin, Ferdinan, Thorniley

Attendance: 25,574 (together with 863 away followers)

Report: Martin Brodetsky; Images: JasonPix, Steve Edmunds