Oldham Athletic 5-1 Northampton Town: result and report
League One · Saturday 9 December 2017
Result
Oldham Athletic 5-1 Northampton Town
League One · Saturday 9 December 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 3-0
Oldham Athletic 5-1 Northampton Town: match report
Oldham Athletic beat Northampton Town 5-1 in the League One on Saturday 9 December 2017. It was 3-0 at half-time.
J. Byrne opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Oldham Athletic's goals came from J. Byrne (4'), T. Obadeyi (26'), J. Byrne (45+2'), G. Nepomuceno (60') and Craig Davies (90+3'). Northampton Town scored through Sam Foley (47').
Discipline: Oldham Athletic received 2 yellow cards; Northampton Town received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Oldham Athletic were 18th on 23 points from 20 and Northampton Town 22nd on 19 points from 20. Oldham Athletic went on to finish that season 21st with 50 points, and Northampton Town 22nd with 47.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Oldham Athletic wins, 1 draw and 2 for Northampton Town.
Going into the match Oldham Athletic's last five read L-D-D-W-L and Northampton Town's D-L-L-W-W.
Key events
- 4'Goal · J. Byrne
- 26'Goal · T. Obadeyi
- 36'Yellow card · David Buchanan
- 41'Yellow card · G. Nepomuceno
- 45+1'Yellow card · Ash Taylor
- 45+2'Goal · J. Byrne
- 47'Goal · Sam Foley
- 60'Goal · G. Nepomuceno
- 84'Yellow card · Ousmane Fane
- 90+3'Goal · Craig Davies
Head-to-head
Team news
Oldham Athletic line-up
Johny Placide, Cameron Dummigan, Anthony Gerrard, Rob Hunt, Kean Bryan, Dan Gardner, Fane Ousmane, G. Nepomuceno, Jack Byrne, Eoin Doyle, Tope Obadeyi
Northampton Town line-up
David Cornell, Brendan Moloney, David Buchanan, Leon Barnett, Ash Taylor, Regan Poole, Sam Foley, Matt Crooks, Matt Grimes, Billy Waters, Christopher Long