Port Vale 3-0 Northampton Town: result and report
League Two · Friday 14 October 2011
Result
Port Vale 3-0 Northampton Town
League Two · Friday 14 October 2011, 18:45 UTC · half-time 3-0
Port Vale 3-0 Northampton Town: match report
Port Vale beat Northampton Town 3-0 in the League Two on Friday 14 October 2011. The half-time score was 3-0.
Tom Pope opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Port Vale's goals came from Tom Pope (5'), Anthony Griffith (19') and John McCombe (26'). Northampton Town did not score.
Discipline: Port Vale received no yellow cards; Northampton Town received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Port Vale were 9th on 19 points from 12 and Northampton Town 15th on 15 points from 12. Port Vale went on to finish that season 9th with 69 points, and Northampton Town 20th with 48.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Port Vale wins, 3 draws and 1 for Northampton Town.
Going into the match Port Vale's last five read D-W-D-L-W and Northampton Town's L-W-W-L-W.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Tom Pope
- 19'Goal · Anthony Griffith
- 26'Goal · John McCombe
- 32'Yellow card · Ben Tozer
- 45+2'Yellow card · Ashley Westwood
Head-to-head
Team news
Port Vale line-up
Stuart Tomlinson, John McCombe, Gareth Owen, Liam Chilvers, Robert Kozluk, Robert Taylor, Anthony Griffith, Doug Loft, Sean Rigg, Marc Richards, Tom Pope
Northampton Town line-up
Sam Walker, Lewis Young, Ben Tozer, John Johnson, Kelvin Langmead, Mick McKoy, Christopher Arthur, Jake Robinson, Marlon Jackson, Michael Jacobs, Ashley Westwood