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The League One match at Sixfields Stadium on Saturday sees home team Northampton Town locking horns with Carlisle United.
View all Northampton Town v Carlisle United tips, stats and our pre-match poll below - along with the latest match odds.
๐ Form Guide
Northampton Town
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Northampton Town are hoping to win again after their last result, the 2-0 League One success vs Port Vale.
For Northampton Town, the goals were scored by Mitch Pinnock (34') and Shaun McWilliams (94').
A recurring feature of recent Northampton Town games is the number of nil scores.
From their prior sextet of matches leading up to this one, in as many as 5 of them a wager on BTTS would've lost.
Their prior results show that Northampton Town:
- have not lost a league tie with Carlisle United in their last 3 games.
- have not beaten Carlisle United in their previous 2 league games.
- have not been beaten in their last 2 home league matches.
Carlisle United
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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Lincoln City in League One competition, Carlisle United will be aiming to make amends here.
The only scorer from Carlisle United was Sam Lavelle (80'). Ben House (10'), Joe Taylor (53') and Teddy Bishop (93') scored for Lincoln City.
Looking at their form, and Carlisle United have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 13 goals in all. In defence, Carlisle United have some weaknesses to address. It will be interesting to see if that trend will end up being sustained here.
Heading into this contest, Carlisle United haven't beaten Northampton Town in away games against them for the last 4 matches in the league. They'll be keen to stop this run.
๐ฅ Head to head
A look at their most recent head to head clashes going back to 22/10/2019 shows us that Northampton Town have won 3 of these games & Carlisle United 1, with the tally of drawn results being 2.
A combined total of 15 goals were produced between them in this period, with 10 for The Cobblers and 5 coming from The Cumbrians. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.
The previous league match featuring the two was League One match day 22 on 16/12/2023 when it ended Carlisle United 2-2 Northampton Town.
The referee was Daniel Middleton.
๐ฐ Team News: Northampton Town
The Northampton Town boss Jon Brady has a full complement, with no fitness worries at all before this match thanks to a fully healthy group to pick from.
๐ Team News: Carlisle United
With a fully injury-free group ready to go, the Carlisle United manager Paul Simpson has zero fitness concerns at all before this game.
โจ Prediction
Weโve got the feeling that Carlisle United should be able to breach the defence of this Northampton Town team, however that might not quite be enough to avoid a loss.
We think that itโs going to be both teams to score in a 2-1 win for Northampton Town when all is said and done. Definitely a tough call.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Victor Martins, 13:03 06/04/2024
โฝ๏ธ Team Focus:
Northampton Town
Formed: 1897
Stadium: Sixfields Stadium (7,798)
Captain: Jon Guthrie
Chairman: Kelvin Thomas
Manager: Jon Brady
Competitions: League One position 11
๐ Star Man: Mitch Pinnock
Typically playing in the Right Wing position, Mitch Pinnock was born in Gravesend, England. After having made a senior debut playing for Southend United in the 2012 - 2013 season, the skilful Forward has managed to score 7 league goals in the League One 2023 - 2024 season to date in 40 appearances.
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41 | 25 | 12 | 4 | 33 | 87 | DWWWD |
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42 | 25 | 7 | 10 | 35 | 82 | WWLWD |
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41 | 23 | 9 | 9 | 31 | 78 | DWLDW |
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40 | 22 | 8 | 10 | 27 | 74 | WWLLW |
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40 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 22 | 74 | LWDLW |
6 |
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41 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 26 | 67 | WWWWW |
7 |
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41 | 19 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 67 | WLWDW |
8 |
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41 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 64 | LLDDD |
9 |
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41 | 17 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 61 | DWLLD |
10 |
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41 | 16 | 10 | 15 | -2 | 58 | LDWLL |
11 |
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42 | 16 | 8 | 18 | -8 | 56 | LLWLW |
12 |
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41 | 17 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 51 | WLWDL |
13 |
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40 | 13 | 12 | 15 | -1 | 51 | WWWLD |
14 |
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40 | 14 | 9 | 17 | -11 | 51 | LDLLD |
15 |
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41 | 14 | 9 | 18 | -18 | 51 | DWWDW |
16 |
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41 | 10 | 17 | 14 | -1 | 47 | WWDDD |
17 |
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41 | 13 | 7 | 21 | -26 | 46 | WLWDD |
18 |
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41 | 14 | 9 | 18 | -4 | 45 | LLWWL |
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40 | 12 | 9 | 19 | -19 | 45 | DLLWW |
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41 | 10 | 10 | 21 | -22 | 40 | LLLDL |
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40 | 10 | 9 | 21 | -25 | 39 | DLWWL |
22 |
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39 | 10 | 8 | 21 | -20 | 38 | LLDWL |
23 |
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41 | 7 | 13 | 21 | -25 | 34 | DDDLL |
24 |
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41 | 6 | 9 | 26 | -34 | 27 | LLDWL |
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Goals scored | 1.3 |
Goals conceded | 1 |
Time first goal scored | 46 |
Time first goal conceded | 45 |
Yellow cards | 1.2 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 4.2 |
Biggest victory | 3-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Goals scored | 0.9 |
Goals conceded | 1.8 |
Time first goal scored | 29 |
Time first goal conceded | 45 |
Yellow cards | 2 |
Red cards | 0.2 |
Subs used | 3.8 |
Biggest victory | 3-1 |
Biggest defeat | 5-1 |
Sam Hoskins | 15 |
Kieran Bowie | 9 |
Mitch Pinnock | 7 |
Louis Appรฉrรฉ | 5 |
Marc Leonard | 5 |
Jordan Gibson | 7 |
Jon Mellish | 5 |
Dan Butterworth | 4 |
Luke Armstrong | 3 |
Joe Garner | 3 |
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