📊 Form Guide

Northampton Town

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Northampton Town will be looking for a repeat result of a 0-4 League One success against Peterborough United.

For Northampton Town, goals were scored by Sam Hoskins (15', 34'), Dara Costelloe (41') and Tom Eaves (90').

It’s not been often in recent games that Northampton Town have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The facts show that Northampton Town have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 7 goals during that time. Putting that to one side, we must now wait to see if the trend shall persist in this next game.

Analysis of their past results shows that Northampton Town:

• have not emerged victorious against Reading in their last 2 league matches.
• are without a win at home for the past 5 league games. Fans are getting restless.

Reading

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Reading will go into the meeting after a 1-3 League One win against Shrewsbury Town in their last fixture.

For Reading, goals were scored by Lewis Wing (34'), Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan (53') and Chem Campbell (72'). Taylor Perry (48') scored for Shrewsbury Town.

Noel Hunt's Reading have seen their efforts on goal rewarded a total of 8 times throughout their most recent 6 matches. The number of goals that they have conceded during that period equals 6.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 03/11/2001 tells us that Northampton Town have won 1 of these games & Reading 3, with the tally of draws standing at 2.

A total of 18 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 7 of them for The Cobblers and 11 belonging to The Royals. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was League One match day 22 on 26/12/2024 and the score finished Reading 4-1 Northampton Town.

The referee was Scott Simpson.

📋 Team News: Northampton Town

Ali Koiki (Muscle injury), Patrick Brough (Broken leg) and Callum Morton (unknown injury) won’t be playing for Northampton Town manager Kevin Nolan.

We are thinking that The Cobblers should use a 4-4-2 formation this time, beginning the first half with Aaron Ramsdale, T. Harwood-Bellis, Jan Bednarek, Jack Stephens, Kyle Walker-Peters, Lesley Ugochukwu, William Smallbone, Ryan Manning, Mateus Fernandes, Kamaldeen Sulemana and Cameron Archer.

🗞️ Team News: Reading

From our viewpoint, The Royals could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting the game with Emiliano Martinez, Andres Garcia, Axel Disasi, Tyrone Mings, Ian Maatsen, Amadou Onana, Youri Tielemans, Donyell Malen, Marco Asensio, Jacob Ramsey and Ollie Watkins.

💡 Prediction

Looking at these two, we feel that Reading and Northampton Town could well end up finding themselves level here, with both teams capable of netting.

A draw looks like a realistic possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We’re therefore anticipating a tight encounter with a 1-1 score draw when all is said and done.

Peter Guest, 13:04 12/04/2025