Northampton Town vs Wycombe Wanderers Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Northampton Town

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Northampton Town will be hoping to bounce back here following the 1-2 EFL Cup losing effort in their last game against Wycombe Wanderers.

In that match, Northampton Town had 56% possession and 20 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. The scorer for Northampton Town was Louis Appéré (77'). Wycombe Wanderers got 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. Joe Jacobson (28') and D'Mani Mellor (34') scored for Wycombe Wanderers.

Fixtures involving Northampton Town have tended to be exciting affairs recently with a lot of goalmouth action expected. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum total of 21 goals have been recorded for both sides combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 12 of those coming from Northampton Town. Let’s see if that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Wycombe Wanderers

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A series of outstanding displays from the Wycombe Wanderers defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their past 6 outings combined. In that period of time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 8.

👥 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings dating back to 04/10/2014, there has been little to separate the clubs with Northampton Town winning 2 of those games, Wycombe Wanderers 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

In all, 16 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 8 of them from The Cobblers and 8 for The Blues. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The last league contest between these clubs was EFL Trophy match day 2 on 04/09/2018 when it finished Northampton Town 0-1 Wycombe Wanderers.

ℹ️ Team News: Northampton Town

The Northampton Town manager Jon Brady will be thankful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever before this game owing to a fully healthy group to pick from.

📋 Team News: Wycombe Wanderers

Due to a fully healthy squad available to select from, the Wycombe Wanderers boss Gareth Ainsworth doesn’t have any fitness worries at all before this game.

💭 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Northampton Town will have to work hard as a team to register a score against this Wycombe Wanderers outfit who should end up scoring and staying ahead.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a hard-fought 0-1 winning margin for Wycombe Wanderers at full-time.

Expecting it to be tight.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 16:02 05/08/2022