Northampton Town vs Rochdale Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Northampton Town

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Northampton Town will be wanting a better result here following a 4-3 League One defeat last time out to MK Dons.

For Northampton Town, goals were scored by Fraser Horsfall (2'), Ryan Watson (46') and Peter Kioso (78'). Andrew Surman (13'), Will Grigg (34'), Cameron Jerome (83') and Charlie Brown (88') scored for MK Dons.

Northampton Town have been quite ineffective in attack in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 3 versus opposition teams over the course of their last six matches. In those games, The Cobblers have also seen the tally of goals scored against them total 9.

Leading up to this clash, Northampton Town:

• have not beaten Rochdale in their last 7 league matches.
• have not won at home in their last 3 matches in the league.

Rochdale

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Previously, Rochdale drew 0-0 in the League One match with Plymouth Argyle.

Looking at their form, and Rochdale have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 12 goals in total. At the back, The Dale have clearly had some problems. That trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, though.

Coming into this meeting, Rochdale have not lost to Northampton Town when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head to head clashes dating back to 18/03/2014 shows that Northampton Town have won 0 of these games and Rochdale 3, with the number of drawn matches standing at 3.

In all, 17 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from The Cobblers and 11 created by The Dale. The average goals per game has been 2.83.

The last league match between these sides was League One match day 14 on 24/11/2020 and the score finished Rochdale 1-1 Northampton Town.

The referee was Andy Haines.

🗞️ Team News: Northampton Town

Northampton Town manager will be grateful not to have any fitness worries at all before this clash with a completely healthy group ready to go.

🗞️ Team News: Rochdale

Due to a completely healthy squad to pick from, Rochdale boss Brian Barry-Murphy doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash.

🔮 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Rochdale will need to push hard to get anything against this Northampton Town outfit who we think might well score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re therefore tipping a good tussle with a 1-0 win for Northampton Town at the end of the match.

Should be interesting.

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

Peter Guest, 00:12 19/02/2021