Northampton Town 2-3 Cheltenham Town: result and report
League Two · Saturday 8 December 2012
Result
Northampton Town 2-3 Cheltenham Town
League Two · Saturday 8 December 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-2
Northampton Town 2-3 Cheltenham Town: match report
Northampton Town lost to Cheltenham Town 2-3 in the League Two on Saturday 8 December 2012. The half-time score was 2-2.
Adebayo Akinfenwa opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Northampton Town's goals came from Adebayo Akinfenwa (2') and an own goal by B. Jones (14'). Cheltenham Town scored through Darren Carter (25'), Chris Zebroski (28') and Darryl Duffy (80').
Discipline: Northampton Town received 2 yellow cards; Cheltenham Town received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Northampton Town were 11th on 29 points from 20 and Cheltenham Town 3rd on 35 points from 20. Northampton Town went on to finish that season 4th with 76 points, and Cheltenham Town 6th with 75.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Northampton Town wins, 4 draws and 2 for Cheltenham Town.
Going into the match Northampton Town's last five read L-W-W-W-D and Cheltenham Town's W-L-L-W-D.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Adebayo Akinfenwa
- 14'Own goal · B. Jones
- 25'Goal · Darren Carter
- 28'Goal · Chris Zebroski
- 48'Yellow card · Ishmel Demontagnac
- 55'Yellow card · Joe Widdowson
- 68'Yellow card · K. Lowe
- 80'Goal · Darryl Duffy
Head-to-head
Team news
Northampton Town line-up
Lee Nicholls, Joe Widdowson, Kelvin Langmead, Ben Tozer, Clarke Carlisle, Ishmel Demontagnac, Chris Hackett, Lewis Hornby, Emyr Huws, Adebayo Akinfenwa, Ben Harding
Cheltenham Town line-up
Keith Lowe, Billy Jones, Steve Elliott, Alan Bennett, Sido Jombati, Darren Carter, Russell Penn, Jake Taylor, Scott Brown, Shaun Harrad, Chris Zebroski