Northampton Town vs Mansfield Town Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Northampton Town

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Northampton Town will be hoping to bounce back here after a 2-1 League Two loss in their previous game against Hartlepool United.

The only name on the scoresheet from Northampton Town was Sam Hoskins (50'). David Ferguson (52') and Luke Molyneux (83') scored for Hartlepool United.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Northampton Town haven’t conceded. In fact, Northampton Town have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 8 goals during that time. That being said, we’ll just have to find out whether that trend shall continue on in this upcoming game.

Leading up to this clash, Northampton Town:

• have left without a victory over Mansfield Town in their last 5 league games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 league games.

Mansfield Town

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Last time out, Mansfield Town drew 0-0 in the League Two tie with Oldham Athletic.

The strike force from Mansfield Town have suffered from a shortage of goals over their previous six clashes, recording the poor return of just 3. In those matches, The Stags have also seen the collective goal tally of their opponents equal 7.

A look at their previous results shows us that Mansfield Town:

• haven't been defeated by Northampton Town in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.
• are without a win away from home in their last 4 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head to head clashes stretching back to 14/11/2015 shows that Northampton Town have won 1 of them and Mansfield Town 2, with the number of drawn results being 3.

A combined sum of 16 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 of them from The Cobblers and 10 netted by The Stags. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The previous league contest between the two was League Two match day 37 on 07/03/2020 when it finished Northampton Town 1-2 Mansfield Town.

The referee was Peter Wright.

🗞️ Team News: Northampton Town

The Northampton Town manager Jon Brady has a full complement, with no fitness concerns at all coming into this match with a fully injury-free squad ready to go.

📋 Team News: Mansfield Town

Thanks to a mainly available group of players, there is only the one fitness problem for the Mansfield Town manager Nigel Clough to be concerned about. James Perch (Fractured Skull) misses out for this game.

🔮 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Mansfield Town will really need to work well to score goals against this Northampton Town side who we think should be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

Our tip is therefore for a narrow 1-0 victory for Northampton Town at the end of the 90 minutes.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

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

Lucas Pereira, 00:06 12/10/2021