Northampton Town vs Mansfield Town Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Northampton Town

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Northampton Town will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 2-0 League Two loss in their previous game against Stockport County.

The only scorer from Northampton Town was Jack Sowerby (68' Own goal). Antoni Sarcevic (33') was the scorer for Stockport County.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where Northampton Town have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Northampton Town have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 8 goals in the process. With no two games being the same, time will tell if the trend will be sustained in this match.

Heading into this contest, Northampton Town have left without a victory over Mansfield Town in their last 2 matches in the league.

Mansfield Town

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In the game prior to this, Mansfield Town drew 1-1 in the League Two tie with Crewe Alexandra.

The only scorer from Mansfield Town was George Maris (42'). Kelvin Mellor (55') scored for Crewe Alexandra.

The numbers tell their own story, and Mansfield Town have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 8 goals overall. In defence, Mansfield Town have not been doing too well.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their most recent head to head meetings going back to 07/03/2020 shows that Northampton Town have won 1 of them and Mansfield Town 4, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

In all, 12 goals were scored between them in these games, with 5 for The Cobblers and 7 netted by The Stags. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

The last league encounter featuring these sides was League Two match day 23 on 26/12/2022 when the final score was Mansfield Town 1-1 Northampton Town.

The referee was Ben Speedie.

📰 Team News: Northampton Town

The Northampton Town boss Jon Brady will be thankful to have no fitness concerns at all coming into this game thanks to a completely healthy squad available to choose from.

📰 Team News: Mansfield Town

Due to a completely injury-free squad ready to go, the Mansfield Town manager Nigel Clough has no fitness worries to speak of coming into this game.

✨ Prediction

Our feeling is that Mansfield Town may well find it hard to register a score against this Northampton Town team who we think will likely do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

Our tip is therefore for a very even match with a 1-0 victory for Northampton Town at the end of this one.

We’ll see what happens.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 01:48 17/01/2023