Bristol Rovers 3-1 Northampton Town: result and report

League Two · Saturday 6 October 2012

Result

Bristol Rovers 3-1 Northampton Town

League Two · Saturday 6 October 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Bristol Rovers 3-1 Northampton Town: match report

Bristol Rovers beat Northampton Town 3-1 in the League Two on Saturday 6 October 2012. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Tom Eaves opened the scoring in the 53rd minute. Bristol Rovers's goals came from Tom Eaves (53'), G. Kenneth (56') and Oliver Norburn (84'). Northampton Town scored through Adebayo Akinfenwa (74').

Discipline: Bristol Rovers received 3 yellow cards; Northampton Town received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Bristol Rovers were 21st on 7 points from 9 and Northampton Town 13th on 13 points from 10. Bristol Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 59 points, and Northampton Town 4th with 76.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Bristol Rovers win, 0 draws and 0 for Northampton Town.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 24'Red card · Anthony CharlesNorthampton Town
  • 28'Yellow card · Tom EavesBristol Rovers
  • 35'Yellow card · Chris HackettNorthampton Town
  • 53'Goal · Tom EavesBristol Rovers · 1-0
  • 56'Goal · G. KennethBristol Rovers · 2-0
  • 62'Yellow card · Matty LundBristol Rovers
  • 65'Yellow card · Joe WiddowsonNorthampton Town
  • 74'Goal · Adebayo AkinfenwaNorthampton Town · 2-1
  • 78'Yellow card · Tom ParkesBristol Rovers
  • 84'Goal · Oliver NorburnBristol Rovers · 3-1
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Alex NichollsNorthampton Town

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Bristol Rovers 1, draws 0, Northampton Town 0.

Team news

Bristol Rovers line-up

Neil Etheridge, Garry Kenneth, Tom Parkes, Fabian Broghammer, Oliver Norburn, Matthew Lund, David Clarkson, Elliot Richards, Derek Riordan, Tom Eaves, Jim Paterson

Northampton Town line-up

Lee Nicholls, Kelvin Langmead, Anthony Charles, Ben Tozer, Danny East, Chris Hackett, Adebayo Akinfenwa, L. Moult, Kemar Roofe, Joe Widdowson, Alex Nicholls