Northampton Town 2-0 Port Vale: result and report
League Two · Saturday 27 October 2012
Result
Northampton Town 2-0 Port Vale
League Two · Saturday 27 October 2012, 13:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Northampton Town 2-0 Port Vale: match report
Northampton Town beat Port Vale 2-0 in the League Two on Saturday 27 October 2012. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Alex Nicholls opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Northampton Town's goals came from Alex Nicholls (20') and Louis Moult (43'). Port Vale did not score.
Discipline: Northampton Town received 2 yellow cards; Port Vale received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Northampton Town were 17th on 16 points from 14 and Port Vale 2nd on 30 points from 14. Northampton Town went on to finish that season 4th with 76 points, and Port Vale 3rd with 78.
Going into the match Northampton Town's last five read L-L-W-L-L and Port Vale's D-W-W-W-D.
Key events
- 20'Goal · Alex Nicholls
- 22'Red card · John McCombe
- 43'Goal · Louis Moult
- 45'Yellow card · Gareth Owen
- 45+7'Yellow card · Gareth Owen
- 50'Yellow card · Anthony Charles
- 58'Yellow card · Tom Pope
- 67'Yellow card · Samy Morsy
- 68'Yellow card · Samy Morsy
- 81'Yellow card · Emyr Huws
Team news
Northampton Town line-up
Lee Nicholls, Kelvin Langmead, Anthony Charles, Ben Tozer, Lewis Wilson, Danny East, Lewis Hornby, Emyr Huws, Adebayo Akinfenwa, Joe Widdowson, Alex Nicholls
Port Vale line-up
Chris Neal, Adam Yates, John McCombe, Gareth Owen, Robert Taylor, Sam Morsy, Ben Williamson, Ryan Burge, Jennison Myrie-Williams, Tom Pope, Ashley Vincent