Southend United 2-2 Northampton Town: result and report
League One · Saturday 16 September 2017
Result
Southend United 2-2 Northampton Town
League One · Saturday 16 September 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-2
Southend United 2-2 Northampton Town: match report
Southend United drew with Northampton Town 2-2 in the League One on Saturday 16 September 2017. It was 0-2 at half-time.
Leon Barnett opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Southend United's goals came from Jason Dimitriou (48') and A. Wordsworth (50'). Northampton Town scored through Leon Barnett (20') and Matt Crooks (43').
Discipline: Southend United received 3 yellow cards; Northampton Town received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Southend United were 19th on 6 points from 7 and Northampton Town 17th on 6 points from 6. Southend United went on to finish that season 10th with 63 points, and Northampton Town 22nd with 47.
Southend United lined up in a 4-4-2 and Northampton Town in a 4-3-3.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Southend United wins, 4 draws and 3 for Northampton Town.
Going into the match Southend United's last five read L-L-D-D-D and Northampton Town's W-W-L-L-L.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Leon Barnett
- 23'Yellow card · Matt Grimes
- 40'Yellow card · Brendan Moloney
- 43'Goal · Matt Crooks
- 47'Yellow card · Matt Crooks
- 48'Goal · Jason Dimitriou
- 50'Goal · A. Wordsworth
- 60'Yellow card · Leon Barnett
- 61'Yellow card · M. Timlin
- 62'Yellow card · Dru Yearwood
- 67'Yellow card · Daniel Powell
- 90+6'Second yellow · Matt Crooks
- 90+7'Yellow card · Anton Ferdinand
Head-to-head
Team news
Southend United line-up (4-4-2)
Mark Oxley, Anton Ferdinand, Stephen McLaughlin, Harry Kyprianou, Anthony Wordsworth, Michael Timlin, Dru Yearwood, Ryan Leonard, Jason Demetriou, Simon Cox, Nile Ranger
Northampton Town line-up (4-3-3)
Matt Ingram, Brendan Moloney, David Buchanan, Leon Barnett, Ash Taylor, Yaser Kasim, Matt Crooks, Matt Grimes, A. Revell, Daniel Powell, Christopher Long