Matusiwa: Mistakes Are Part of the Game
Sunday, 30th Nov 2025 13:35
Blues midfielder Azor Matusiwa has commented on his error which led to Oxford United’s opening goal in Friday’s 2-1 defeat at the Kassam Stadium.
The Dutchman, a starter in all bar one of Town’s Championship games so far, missing the defeat to Charlton through suspension, scuffed a pass back towards keeper Christian Walton, gifting the ball to Oxford striker Mark Harris, who scored at the second attempt after Walton had stopped his initial effort.
“Mistakes are unfortunately part of the game,” Matusiwa, who joined the club from French side Rennes for £7.8 million in the summer, wrote on Instagram.
“Taking it as a man and gonna continue to improve. Thank you all for travelling.”
The defeat left the Blues still looking for an away league victory over the U’s in 13 attempts.
Town’s last win in a league competition in Oxford was a 4-1 success over Oxford City in the Southern Amateur League back in February 1913.
Photo: Matchday Images
armchaircritic59 added 18:23 - Nov 30
We've much bigger issues to worry about Azor, you've been great so far and no one's perfect. For instance, Egeli, Szmodics, McAteer and Cajuste ( what I would call attackers or attack minded ), no goals from 29 starts between them and loads of sub appearances. Which may at least partly explain the increasingly worrying stat of 2 home goals in the last 4 home games. And of course, a complete inability to break down a packed defence, AKA the Low Block, as the mods like to call it. Been around since I started watching football in the earlyish 1960's! Couple that with the very frequent rotation of the left sided central defender, a recipe for misunderstandings and errors and it's not a pretty package. One other thing, I think the scapegoating of Kasey McAteer needs to stop, He only needs to come on for a few minutes, make one error and he gets crucified. Others are on for much longer, make many more, and get off very lightly. Has he set the world alight? No. Will it help calling him out for every perceived error? No. He get's pilloried for a certain cross late on at Oxford, but no one mentions the one a few minutes earlier that was on a plate for Azon, that wasn't converted. And please just remember the price tag on his head was nothing to do with him. Room for improvement, most certainly, but he's more likely to do it with support than scapegoating him. No, I'm not a relative! |  |
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