Plymouth Argyle 3-2 Northampton Town: result and report

League Two · Saturday 1 September 2012

Result

Plymouth Argyle 3-2 Northampton Town

League Two · Saturday 1 September 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Plymouth Argyle 3-2 Northampton Town: match report

Plymouth Argyle beat Northampton Town 3-2 in the League Two on Saturday 1 September 2012. The half-time score was 0-1.

Alex Nicholls opened the scoring in the 26th minute. Plymouth Argyle's goals came from Warren Feeney (47'), Rhys Griffiths (59') and C. Nelson (74'). Northampton Town scored through Alex Nicholls (26') and David Artell (90+4').

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

Going into the game Plymouth Argyle were 23rd on 1 point from 3 and Northampton Town 9th on 5 points from 3. Plymouth Argyle went on to finish that season 20th with 52 points, and Northampton Town 4th with 76.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Plymouth Argyle win, 1 draw and 0 for Northampton Town.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 26'Goal · Alex NichollsNorthampton Town · 0-1
  • 47'Goal · Warren FeeneyPlymouth Argyle · 1-1
  • 59'Goal · Rhys GriffithsPlymouth Argyle · 2-1
  • 74'Goal · C. NelsonPlymouth Argyle · 3-1
  • 88'Yellow card · Alex MacDonaldPlymouth Argyle
  • 90+4'Goal · David ArtellNorthampton Town · 3-2

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Plymouth Argyle 1, draws 1, Northampton Town 0.

Team news

Plymouth Argyle line-up

Jake Cole, Durrell Berry, Robbie Williams, Maxime Blanchard, Darren Purse, Onismor Bhasera, C. Hourihane, L. Young, Paris Cowan Hall, Warren Feeney, Paul Wotton

Northampton Town line-up

Lee Nicholls, Kelvin Langmead, Ben Tozer, Danny East, Luke Guttridge, Chris Hackett, Adebayo Akinfenwa, Joe Widdowson, Ben Harding, Alex Nicholls, David Artell