Northampton Town 3-2 Bristol Rovers: result and report

League Two · Tuesday 6 March 2012

Result

Northampton Town 3-2 Bristol Rovers

League Two · Tuesday 6 March 2012, 19:45 UTC · half-time 3-0

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Northampton Town 3-2 Bristol Rovers: match report

Northampton Town defeated Bristol Rovers 3-2 in the League Two on Tuesday 6 March 2012. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Adebayo Akinfenwa opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Northampton Town's goals came from Adebayo Akinfenwa (2'), Adebayo Akinfenwa (10') and K. Langmead (20'). Bristol Rovers scored through Craig Stanley (66') and Lee Brown (86', penalty).

Discipline: Northampton Town received 1 yellow card; Bristol Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Northampton Town were 24th on 28 points from 32 and Bristol Rovers 16th on 42 points from 33. Northampton Town went on to finish that season 20th with 48 points, and Bristol Rovers 13th with 58.

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

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 2'Goal · Adebayo AkinfenwaNorthampton Town · 1-0
  • 7'Yellow card · C. BolgerBristol Rovers
  • 10'Goal · Adebayo AkinfenwaNorthampton Town · 2-0
  • 20'Goal · K. LangmeadNorthampton Town · 3-0
  • 31'Yellow card · John JohnsonNorthampton Town
  • 66'Goal · Craig StanleyBristol Rovers · 3-1
  • 86'Penalty goal · Lee BrownBristol Rovers · 3-2

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Northampton Town 0, draws 1, Bristol Rovers 2.

Team news

Northampton Town line-up

Matt Duke, Ben Tozer, John Johnson, Clarke Carlisle, Kelvin Langmead, Blair Adams, Luke Guttridge, Brett Williams, Adebayo Akinfenwa, Michael Jacobs, Ben Harding

Bristol Rovers line-up

Scott Bevan, Dan Woodards, Cian Bolger, Lee Brown, Tom Parkes, Craig Stanley, Joe Anyinsah, Matthew Lund, Mustapha Carayol, Matthew Gill, Jim Paterson