Northampton Town 0-2 Doncaster Rovers: result and report

League One · Saturday 5 December 2020

Result

Northampton Town 0-2 Doncaster Rovers

League One · Saturday 5 December 2020, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Northampton Town · Doncaster Rovers · League One predictions

Northampton Town 0-2 Doncaster Rovers: match report

Northampton Town were beaten by Doncaster Rovers 0-2 in the League One on Saturday 5 December 2020. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Tyreece John-Jules opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Northampton Town did not score. Doncaster Rovers scored through Tyreece John-Jules (36') and Joe Wright (57').

Discipline: Northampton Town received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Doncaster Rovers received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Northampton Town were 16th on 18 points from 15 and Doncaster Rovers 11th on 21 points from 13. Northampton Town went on to finish that season 22nd with 45 points, and Doncaster Rovers 14th with 64.

Northampton Town lined up in a 3-5-2 and Doncaster Rovers in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Joe Wright of Doncaster Rovers (8.7), ahead of Steve Arnold (8.2).

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Red card · Shaun McWilliamsNorthampton Town
  • 25'Yellow card · Brad HallidayDoncaster Rovers
  • 27'Yellow card · Fraser HorsfallNorthampton Town
  • 36'Goal · Tyreece John-JulesDoncaster Rovers · 0-1
  • 57'Goal · Joe WrightDoncaster Rovers · 0-2
  • 81'Missed penalty · Ben WhitemanDoncaster Rovers

Team news

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Northampton Town line-up (3-5-2)

Steve Arnold, Michael Harriman, Cian Bolger, Fraser Horsfall, Sam Hoskins, Jack Sowerby, Christopher Missilou, Shaun McWilliams, Ibón Arrieta, Ricky Holmes, Harry Smith

Doncaster Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)

Joe Lumley, Joe Wright, Tom Anderson, Andy Butler, Cameron John, Ben Whiteman, Reece James, Brad Halliday, Taylor Richards, Josh Sims, Tyreece John-Jules