Northampton Town 1-2 Bristol Rovers: result and report
League Two · Saturday 9 April 2016
Result
Northampton Town 1-2 Bristol Rovers
League Two · Saturday 9 April 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Northampton Town 1-2 Bristol Rovers: match report
Northampton Town lost to Bristol Rovers 1-2 in the League Two on Saturday 9 April 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.
Nicky Adams opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Northampton Town's goals came from Nicky Adams (23') and Sam Hoskins (49'). Bristol Rovers scored through Matty Taylor (76') and Ellis Harrison (88').
Discipline: Northampton Town received 2 yellow cards; Bristol Rovers received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Northampton Town were 3rd on 72 points from 40 and Bristol Rovers 1st on 74 points from 40. Northampton Town went on to finish that season 6th with 79 points, and Bristol Rovers 2nd with 86.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Northampton Town wins, 3 draws and 4 for Bristol Rovers.
Going into the match Northampton Town's last five read D-D-W-W-D and Bristol Rovers's W-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 23'Goal · Nicky Adams
- 37'Yellow card · Nicky Adams
- 49'Goal · Sam Hoskins
- 76'Goal · Matty Taylor
- 79'Yellow card · Daniel Leadbitter
- 81'Yellow card · J. Marquis
- 88'Goal · Ellis Harrison
Head-to-head
Team news
Northampton Town line-up
Adam Smith, Brendan Moloney, Zander Diamond, David Buchanan, Rod McDonald, John-Joe O'Toole, Nicky Adams, Ricky Holmes, Sam Hoskins, Daniel Rose, John Marquis
Bristol Rovers line-up
Steve Mildenhall, Daniel Leadbitter, Lee Brown, Tom Lockyer, Mark McChrystal, Ollie Clarke, Chris Lines, Liam Lawrence, M. Taylor, Billy Bodin, Rory Gaffney