Blackpool vs Northampton Town Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Blackpool

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Blackpool will play in this fixture after a 1-1 League One drawn game against Hull City.

The only name on the scoresheet from Blackpool was Jerry Yates (81'). Mallik Wilks (51') was the scorer for Hull City.

It has been seldom in recent games where Blackpool have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that The Seasiders have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 8 goals in the process.

Ahead of this clash, Blackpool are undefeated in their last 5 league matches at home.

Northampton Town

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of MK Dons in EFL Trophy action, Northampton Town and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

Looking at their form, and Northampton Town have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 13 goals overall. Defensively, The Cobblers certainly have room for improvement. We will see whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Taking a look at their past results, Northampton Town:

• have not emerged victorious against Blackpool in games played away from home for the previous 3 league games.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head clashes going back to 18/01/2003 shows us that Blackpool have won 3 of these games & Northampton Town 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A sum of 17 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 10 of them from The Seasiders and 7 belonging to The Cobblers. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The last league game featuring the two was League One match day 36 on 10/04/2018 when it ended Blackpool 3-0 Northampton Town.

The match was refereed by Chris Sarginson.

📰 Team News: Blackpool

Blackpool manager Neil Critchley will be grateful not to have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game thanks to a completely injury-free squad available for selection.

ℹ️ Team News: Northampton Town

Due to a fully injury-free squad available for selection, Northampton Town boss Keith Curle has zero fitness concerns whatsoever before this match.

🔮 Prediction

It looks to us that Blackpool are likely to be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

However, Northampton Town won’t find it easy to get shooting opportunities although we do think that they will probably end up managing to get on the scoresheet as well here.

Therefore, we are anticipating a fairly comfortable 3-1 margin for Blackpool at the end of the match.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 00:09 15/01/2021