Northampton Town vs Crewe Alexandra Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Northampton Town

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Northampton Town fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 1-0 League Two success vs Mansfield Town.

The only player to score from Northampton Town was Sam Hoskins (28').

Northampton Town haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, netting in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They have totted up the amount of 6 during that time while also conceding a total of 4.

Looking at their past form shows that Northampton Town:

• have left without a victory over Crewe Alexandra in their previous 3 league matches.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Crewe Alexandra

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Stevenage in League Two action, Crewe Alexandra and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

Jamie Reid (79') scored for Stevenage.

Looking at their form, and Crewe Alexandra have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 8 goals in total. Defensively, Crewe Alexandra have clearly had some problems. That pattern might not be continued into this game, of course.

Heading into this contest, Crewe Alexandra haven’t won away from home in the past 7 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 03/11/2018 shows that Northampton Town have won 3 of them and Crewe Alexandra 2, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

A total of 17 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 11 of them from The Cobblers and 6 coming from The Railwaymen. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The last league clash between these clubs was League Two match day 5 on 20/08/2022 when the final score was Crewe Alexandra 2-2 Northampton Town.

The referee was David Webb.

📋 Team News: Northampton Town

The Northampton Town manager Jon Brady will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game owing to a completely injury-free group available for selection.

It seems likely that The Cobblers may well use the 4-2-3-1 system in the match, handing starts to Gavin Bazunu, Kyle Walker-Peters, Jan Bednarek, Armel Bella-Kotchap, Romain Perraud, James Ward-Prowse, Romeo Lavia, Theo Walcott, Carlos Alcaraz, Kamaldeen Sulemana and Che Adams.

🗞️ Team News: Crewe Alexandra

Owing to a fully healthy group ready to go, the Crewe Alexandra boss Lee Bell does not have any fitness concerns at all coming into this game.

There’s a good chance that The Railwaymen will likely utilise a 3-4-2-1 lineup, starting Fraser Forster, Cristian Romero, Eric Dier, Clement Lenglet, Pedro Porro, Ben Davies, Oliver Skipp, P. Hoejbjerg, Richarlison, Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane.

💡 Prediction

Northampton Town have it within them to create the chances to score more than once when they play Crewe Alexandra, who won’t find it easy to get a goal of their own.

Our tip is for a fairly comfortable 2-0 victory for Northampton Town at full-time.

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Lucas Pereira, 02:27 14/03/2023