Northampton Town 3-1 Rochdale: result and report

League Two · Saturday 9 February 2013

Result

Northampton Town 3-1 Rochdale

League Two · Saturday 9 February 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Northampton Town 3-1 Rochdale: match report

Northampton Town won against Rochdale 3-1 in the League Two on Saturday 9 February 2013. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Clive Platt opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Northampton Town's goals came from Clive Platt (32'), K. Langmead (68') and Adebayo Akinfenwa (75', penalty). Rochdale scored through J. Kennedy (65').

Discipline: Northampton Town received no yellow cards; Rochdale received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Northampton Town were 8th on 45 points from 30 and Rochdale 15th on 38 points from 30. Northampton Town went on to finish that season 4th with 76 points, and Rochdale 12th with 61.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Northampton Town wins, 1 draw and 2 for Rochdale.

Going into the match Northampton Town's last five read L-L-W-W-L and Rochdale's D-D-L-L-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 32'Goal · Clive PlattNorthampton Town · 1-0
  • 65'Goal · J. KennedyRochdale · 1-1
  • 68'Goal · K. LangmeadNorthampton Town · 2-1
  • 74'Yellow card · Kevin McIntyreRochdale
  • 75'Penalty goal · Adebayo AkinfenwaNorthampton Town · 3-1

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Northampton Town 0, draws 1, Rochdale 2.

Team news

Northampton Town line-up

Lee Nicholls, Joe Widdowson, Kelvin Langmead, Ben Tozer, Clarke Carlisle, Luke Guttridge, Chris Hackett, Clive Platt, Adebayo Akinfenwa, Roy O'Donovan, Ben Harding

Rochdale line-up

Josh Lillis, Andrew Haworth, Joe Rafferty, Rhys Bennett, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Phil Edwards, Kevin McIntyre, Jason Kennedy, Andrew Tutte, George Donnelly, Terry Gornell