{"id":283689,"date":"2025-11-26T03:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283689\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:58:19","slug":"norwich-city-v-oxford-confirmed-team-news-and-starting-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283689\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City v Oxford: Confirmed team news and starting XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Northern Irish international makes his third league start of the season but earned rave reviews on international duty earlier this month in a World Cup qualifying win over Luxembourg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Duffy was part of a backline that shipped four goals in Clement&#8217;s debut 4-1 defeat at Birmingham on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  City goalscorer at St Andrew&#8217;s, Mathias Kvistgaarden, drops out of the XI with Emi Marcondes rewarded for an eyecatching cameo in the West Midlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Clement pledged to make changes from his Championship weekend bow in the middle of a three-game week cycle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Belgian reported no fresh fitness issues from those on duty at St Andrew\u2019s when he previewed Oxford\u2019s visit at Colney on Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Matej Jurasek returns to the bench after he missed out in the West Midlands with what Clement indicated afterwards was illness.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Clement also confirmed on Monday City\u2019s longer term injury absentees will again not be in contention this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Full list: Jeffrey Schlupp, Lucien Mahovo, Ben Chrisene, Jose Cordoba, Anis Ben Slimane, Liam Gibbs, Gabe Forsyth, Papa Amadou Diallo and Ante Crnac.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Norwich City: Kovacevic, Stacey, McConville, Darling, Fisher, Topic, McLean, Makama, Marcondes, Schwartau, Sargent. Subs: Grimshaw, Duffy, Medic, Wright, Mattsson, Forson, Jurasek, Mundle-Smith, Kvistgaarden.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Oxford United: Cumming, Long, Brown, Vaulks, Helik, M Harris, L Harris, De Keersmaecker, Goodrham, Ter Avest, Currie. Subs: Ingram, Placheta, Romeny, Prelec, Mills, Leigh, Lankshear, Davies, Krastev.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Referee: Tom Reeves\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Watch our reporters react to the team news from Carrow Road\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Northern Irish international makes his third league start of the season but earned rave reviews on international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-283689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}