Southampton struck first when Taylor Harwood-Bellis split the Oxford defence open with a pass that found Fellows dashing down the right-hand side.<\/p>\n
After controlling possession, the winger then drilled a pass across the box for Larin who stretched for the ball and then guided home for his third Championship goal of the season since arriving on loan in January.<\/p>\n
Eckert’s side then doubled their lead in the 13th minute as a short corner routine found its way to Charles who curled a right-foot effiort into the top corner of the net from outside of the box, a brilliant effort.<\/p>\n
Oxford had penalty shouts waved away early in the second half when Flynn Downes went shoulder-to-shoulder with Stan Mills and knocked him over in the box, but referee Ben Toner was unconvinced.<\/p>\n
The U’s had an encouraging start to the second period with chances for Cameron Brannagan and Will Lankshear well blocked by the Southampton defence.<\/p>\n
Tottenham loanee Lankshear then had a great chance to get Oxford back into the game as he intercepted the ball and ran through on goal, but his effort was wide of the target.<\/p>\n
Fellows struck the crossbar late on with an effort from a narrow angle as his wait for a first goal since arriving in the summer from West Bromwich Albion goes on, despite registering five assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton struck first when Taylor Harwood-Bellis split the Oxford defence open with a pass that found Fellows dashing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-488046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488046","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=488046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}