Away Match Day Thread 24/01/2026 - MDT: Leicester City v Oxford United

[Northstandboy]

 

[Northstandboy]

King Power Stadium
Saturday 24th Jan 2026 @ 1500

 

[West Oxon U’s]

 

[Jster]

Anybody else think the coach departure of 10.40 from the stadium is oddly early given the distance to Leicester?

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

The Great Escape starts today!

I think this is going to be an away day to remember!

 

[Essexyellows]

Anybody else think the coach departure of 10.40 from the stadium is oddly early given the distance to Leicester?

Depends on the route they take, average car journey is 1.5 - 2hours going M40, A46 M69. Either way.

They might go across to the M1 and M69 which is slower.

 

[Essexyellows]

As for today.......................... eeeeeekkkkkkk!

 

[Berliner]

I just hope we find our shooting and scoring boots. As I said before, we seldom look like we are going to get humped and have conceded less goals than virtually all of the bottom half and two of the top six in the division. But 25 goals in 27 games will get you nowhere in this league.

Tentative 1-0 to us.

 

[brightonyellow]

2-0 Oxford

Where’s everyone drinking?

 

[battman]

Will be interesting to see how we approach this one. With Rowett you could almost guarantee we'd set up to stay in the game, but probably lose 1-0. With Bloomfield we'll probably have a defensive shape, but I reckon we'll try to play on the counter and offer a bit more of a threat going forwards

 

[derek]

If playing on the counter means quick, accurate passing then we have a chance. If it's lumping the ball up to an isolated Lankshear......

 

[Symp59]

Take a draw ,if we win unbelievable can't see that they still have alot of class players. But we need a run of wins very quickly we could be 8pts behind everyone by tomorrow so we need something asap other wise you start thinking 10pts behind 12pts behind, oh we only need 4 wins to catch up but lets hope today we start the real battle.

 

[Yellowecky]

I’m encouraged by Broomfield so far, but not sure he’s had enough time with the players to force a win today:

Leicester City 2 - Oxford United 2.

 

[Sarge]

feeing confident this bright n sunny morning, 1-2 away win

 

[Toe knee]

It's time to start winning, we can't afford to keep drawing & losing.we don't want the teams around us, pulling further away.Time is slowly but surely running out. Do us proud & bring back the 3 points
COME ON YOU YELLOWS

 

[Billyox]

Today if we are absolutely serious about staying up matt bloomfield has to find his inner Wycombe and shithouse are way to at least a point we have to kill the game frustrate the hell out of the home team and there supporters using every dark act tactics there is

 

[werthersoriginal]

I think we can get something today. Please not a limp Rowett-style 1-0 defeat

 

[JayOx88]

Really excited to be going to this one.

We've definitely got it in us to get a positive result. The two consecutive clean sheets and overall solidity are signs are that we are going to be much less porous under Bloomfield and we're going to a Leicester side that, whilst having individual brilliance to win them games, haven't really played that cohesively all season. They're also missing Jordan James, which is a big boost for us.

If we're going to win away again this season, it's games like this that we have to go in with the intention to do it.

 

[EastStandKieran]

I think we could cause a so called upset today Leicester aren't nothing special so why can't we go and get a result

2-3 Brannagan penalty to win the game

 

[Pgyellow]

Got to be right some time!

 

[Oxford57]

It will take a complete turn around in all aspects of the teams performance to win, well here’s hoping️

 

[bazzer9461]

 

[bazzer9461]

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Not to sure about thy line up

 

[Swaby39]

Oh blimey. Back to back head-scratching selections.

 

[Twiggy85]

3 at the back and Harris up top, we have let 2 clean sheets an we Change the system - seems an odd decision.
Jin woo on the bench though…. Would
Like to see him for 15 mins

 

[Stanford yellow]

That bench beats the first team hands down

 

[ubermeistervonmeat]

Anybody else think the coach departure of 10.40 from the stadium is oddly early given the distance to Leicester?

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Harris over Lankshear - screams what so many of you were so critical of GR about

 

[werthersoriginal]

Lol WTF is that? A little team away at a big one and hoping to hang on, by the look of it.

 

[OxfordBoy]

I’ll wait to see the formation and the performance before commenting but definitely some surprises in there

 

[Eaststanding]

Harris starts..my only hope is that BDK and Will are being rested.
Hope to see Jin Woo get some minutes

 

[Twiggy85]

Has Rowet snuck back in and done the team selection today - this is exactly what I was criticising Rowet for, giving the opposition to much respect. Hopefully I’m wrong, just feel the wrong approach.