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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.


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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 13:38 - Nov 30
You are forgiven the odd mistake. You've been one of our best performers this season. Keep up the good work!
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ringwoodblue added 13:39 - Nov 30
Azor has been immense in the vast majority of games for us so you can’t criticise him for the odd mistake. We lost the game because of poor performances all over the pitch and Oxford seemed to want it more than us.
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kpblues added 13:51 - Nov 30
For me player of the year so far.

What a bargain
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TimmyH added 14:00 - Nov 30
He's been one of our better acquisitions this summer but that's not saying a lot...our central midfield needs to improve like other departments in the side, no goals and only 3 assists between the lot of them.
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Westy added 14:28 - Nov 30
Everyone will make the odd mistake. Our main issue was the 'team' playing as individuals and poor finishing although George Hirst was unlucky - 1% more on the shot with the outside of his boot and it would have crossed the line before the spin took it away. More than anything this season, it's not taking our chances that have really cost us, but at least we are creating them.
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carsey added 14:35 - Nov 30
That's all very well but if their first thought was to go forwards instead of backwards or sideways it wouldn't have happened.
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shakytown added 14:55 - Nov 30
Im not worried about the odd mistake but i am about our slow boring build up and lack of creativity and the seeming inability to change things up to break teams down. Our play is starting to resemble muckball.
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NthQldITFC added 15:18 - Nov 30
Superb player - occasional mistake - no worries.
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ChrisFelix added 15:55 - Nov 30
not all his fault, as looking at the incident Kipre was "half asleep " and could have reached the misplaced pass
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Blue_Moses added 18:17 - Nov 30
As others have already said, the mistake is excused. Player of the season so far
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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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thatsbonkers added 18:26 - Nov 30
Million miles off premiership standard. Can win the ball but lacks the other qualities that Morsy had like making space, bringing others into play and picking a pass. Cue the down marks!!
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armchaircritic59 added 18:57 - Nov 30
thatsbonkers, no downvote from me, I completely disagree with you but I never have or will downvote anyone, as everyone's entitled to an opinion whether it's one we like or not! So keep posting!
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ringwoodblue added 22:37 - Nov 30
thatsbonkers. Sure, Matusiwa doesn’t have some of the qualities that Morsy had but he plays for us and Morsy doesn’t anymore so we need to appreciate what we have.
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wischip added 09:51 - Dec 1
I don't think we're making as many mistakes at the back as we did 2 seasons ago. The difference back then being we'd go back up the other end and get a goal back more times than not. We were so determined and relentless. I don't think our attack is quite at those levels yet.
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