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Home Match Build-Up 28/09/24 - Championship: OUFC v Burnley

What will the result be?


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Its a "must win" for me, got a Burnley supporting friend who will dine out on it forever if they win. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Why? It would be like us bragging about beating lower league opposition like Oxford City or Swindon Town. They’re expected to win.

I sense our first home home defeat of the season. At full strength with CamBran and McEachran involved, I think we’d give them a game but we’re playing a second string midfield against a side I think we all expect to be finishing no lower than second this year.

Perhaps Sibley can be the one to step in or Vaulks can step up from his fairly ordinary start with us. As it is, if we came out of the game with a point, I would not be disappointed.
 
Why? It would be like us bragging about beating lower league opposition like Oxford City or Swindon Town. They’re expected to win.

I sense our first home home defeat of the season. At full strength with CamBran and McEachran involved, I think we’d give them a game but we’re playing a second string midfield against a side I think we all expect to be finishing no lower than second this year.

Perhaps Sibley can be the one to step in or Vaulks can step up from his fairly ordinary start with us. As it is, if we came out of the game with a point, I would not be disappointed.

Although I think he's done pretty well, I feel this is over hyping the impact of McEachran. Yes, he'll spray the odd pass and generally keep the ball moving but in this league there needs to be more dynamism in the midfield. I thought Vaulks looked real quality in the first few games - bar that costly back pass - and I'd much rather see him in there than JM. I certainly don't consider JM to be part of our 'full strength' side - he isn't the player for 90 minutes, week in and week out. Brannagan is a massive gap to fill and the man taking on that mantle has to be Vaulks in my opinion.
 
Why? It would be like us bragging about beating lower league opposition like Oxford City or Swindon Town. They’re expected to win.

I sense our first home home defeat of the season. At full strength with CamBran and McEachran involved, I think we’d give them a game but we’re playing a second string midfield against a side I think we all expect to be finishing no lower than second this year.

Perhaps Sibley can be the one to step in or Vaulks can step up from his fairly ordinary start with us. As it is, if we came out of the game with a point, I would not be disappointed.

Only for my peace and sanity - I`ve spent a long time telling him Burnley will reach their natural level. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
I predict a bit of a humbling defeat here, if we play like we did against Bristol C. It would be good to see Dane Scarlett getting some more game time - not because I think he's very good but because there must be a reason Des wanted him, and he'll need some minutes in him to get up to temperature.

And Harris might struggle against the stronger back lines.
 
Went to Burnley-Pompey. Burnley were incredibly good at keeping the ball and very patient but they put a a lot of players on the edge of the box. Portsmouth had some luck on the counter, spreading the ball to the wingers, so frustratingly this would be a perfect game for Bran or McEachran and their long diagonals.
Think we’ll do well to get anything from this, given the precision of their passing, but if Harris is on form and Rodrigues etc can split the lines we have a chance. COYY.
 
I have a notion that Des and the stats team have been working on this for a while. I see no reason why we cannot compete, and win. Confidence is a big issue. After the disappointment of Bristol the squad, as a whole, will have had a good look at themselves and their performance and will know where improvement must be evident.
2-1 OUFC.
 
Would love to win but struggling to feel it. Should be our first real quality home challenge. At this stage I would take a draw.
 
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Losing and Coventry and Bristol are doubly annoying because two points there would cover games like this where we might only get a point. As it is, a win would be incredible, I’d definitely take a draw and a loss would put a lot more pressure on the upcoming Portsmouth game, because Luton away is likely to be tough…
 
Most of us are back to feeling like the underdogs again by the looks. Good. The expectation that we would almost certainly win against Bristol City from so many was ridiculous. There are no easy games at this level and we will need to be on it every single week to secure points. The slipped (at least from the fans) last weekend.

Looking forward to this one. Real test of our home form, prep work, and squad depth.
 
Most of us are back to feeling like the underdogs again by the looks. Good. The expectation that we would almost certainly win against Bristol City from so many was ridiculous. There are no easy games at this level and we will need to be on it every single week to secure points. The slipped (at least from the fans) last weekend.

Looking forward to this one. Real test of our home form, prep work, and squad depth.
I think when you’ve already won over half of your games in the season so far (and arguably deserved a draw in the only losses), and are 1-0 up at half time against a side who have lost their last two games 3-0 (and have only won once all season), and you’ve already hit the bar, and then miss a great chance to go 2-0 up… well, you can be excused for thinking you might win? I know football doesn’t always work like that, but there is some context for that thinking.
 
Toughest game of the season, a point wouldn't be a bad thing but we'd need to have a much improved performance and hope the fine margins go our way this week.
 
What i like about this game is nobody apart from our own fans give a chance everyone expects Burnley to win . Now not so long ago we played a team from the north west nobody gave us a chance everyone expected Bolton to win but Des had other ideas he set his team up to strangle the life out them.This Oxford team have something about them especially at home we don’t give up we fight until the end so on that basis I’m going 2-2 with us getting a late equaliser
 
Most of us are back to feeling like the underdogs again by the looks. Good. The expectation that we would almost certainly win against Bristol City from so many was ridiculous. There are no easy games at this level and we will need to be on it every single week to secure points. The slipped (at least from the fans) last weekend.

Looking forward to this one. Real test of our home form, prep work, and squad depth.

Whether we (the fans) think we are going to win, draw or lose makes no difference to the actual result, you will be turning up in full kit and shin pads next.
 
Losing and Coventry and Bristol are doubly annoying because two points there would cover games like this where we might only get a point. As it is, a win would be incredible, I’d definitely take a draw and a loss would put a lot more pressure on the upcoming Portsmouth game, because Luton away is likely to be tough…
Er, so is Portsmouth
 
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