PORTSMOUTH v NORTHAMPTON TOWN
SATURDAY 3rd FEBRUARY 2024
3:00 PM
FRATTON PARK
SKY BET LEAGUE ONE
9th-placed Northampton Town travel to top-of-the-table Portsmouth in Sky Bet League One on Saturday afternoon.
TEAM NEWS
Speaking on Tuesday, Jon Brady saif he is expecting to see the return of at least one of his injured players at the weekend.
“Potentially we might have a player back for the weekend but we will just have to wait and see," he said.
“One player may start a phased return on Saturday but other than that we are still waiting.
"We won't sign anyone just for the sake of it, it has to be right for us as a football club and it has to be right for the player and we have to make sure it is someone that can add to us as a group, if we don't find that we are happy with what we have in the building."
THE MANAGER’S VIEW
Click on the image below to hear Jon Brady's thoughts in full!
THE VIEW FROM THE DRESSING ROOM
Click on the image below to hear the thoughts of Mitch Pinnock!
LEAGUE FORM
|
POS |
Club |
PLD |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
PTS |
|
1 |
Portsmouth |
30 |
17 |
9 |
4 |
46 |
27 |
19 |
60 |
|
9 |
Northampton Town |
28 |
12 |
4 |
12 |
35 |
38 |
-3 |
40 |
Portsmouth - DWWLLW
Tuesday 30th January 2024 - Oxford United - Away - D 2-2 - Bishop, Lang
Saturday 27th January 2024 - Port Vale - Away - W 1-0 - Bishop
Saturday 20th January 2024 - Fleetwood Town - Away - W 1-0 - Kamara
Saturday 13th January 2024 - Leyton Orient - Home - L 0-3
Saturday 6th January 2024 - Cheltenham Town - Away - L 1-2 - Own Goal
Monday 1st January 2024 - Stevenage - Home - W 2-1 - Lane, Bishop
Northampton Town - LWDWWL
Saturday 27th January 2024 - Shrewsbury Town - Home - L 0-2
Tuesday 23rd January 2024 - Charlton Athletic - Away - W 3-2 - Simpson, Hoskins, Appéré
Saturday 13th January 2024 - Wigan Athletic - Home - D 1-1 - Hoskins
Monday 1st January 2024 - Cheltenham Town - Home - W 1-0 - Bowie
Friday 29th December 2023 - Lincoln City - Away - W 2-1 - Guthrie, Bowie
Tuesday 26th December 2023 - Stevenage - Away - L 0-3
LOOKING BACK
|
League Meetings |
33 |
|
Portsmouth Wins |
17 |
|
Draws |
7 |
|
Northampton Town Wins |
9 |
Northampton Town lost 3-0 at home to Portsmouth in the reverse fixture in December.
Mitch Pinnock and Sam Hoskins were both denied by Will Norris as the Cobblers created two early opportunities.
Sean Raggett headed home from Jack Sparkes’ corner to open the scoring for the visitors shortly afterwards.
Paddy Lane ran onto Christian Saydee’s through ball and lofted the ball over Max Thompson to double his side’s lead on the half-an-hour mark.
Kieron Bowie missed a chance to halve the deficit when he headed wide from a promising position late in the first half.
Lane added his second goal and Portsmouth’s third early in the second period to secure all three points and send the South Coast-side top of the league.
TICKETS
PLEASE NOTE ALL SALES AND COLLECTIONS WILL END AT NOON ON FRIDAY
We have been allocated an initial 1,104 tickets for this game including 682 terrace tickets, 358 seating tickets as well as 50 ambulant disabled and 14 wheelchair and helper tickets. These are now on sale via ntfcdirect.co.uk and the Sixfields ticket office.
This is an all-ticket fixture. No supporters should travel without a ticket as none will be available on the day of the game.
Any child under 14 years of age MUST purchase with a ticket holder aged 18+ and they must enter the stadium together.
- Adult £25
- Senior (65+) £19
- Young Person (18-22) £17
- Junior (14-17) £10
- Child (2-13) *must be accompanied by an adult, 18+ £5
- Wheelchair £16
- Ambulant *with highest rate of PIP £17. If you are ambulant disabled, please check with Portsmouth as the information sent to us has changed during the sales process.
- Carers (required to be on highest rate of DLA) FOC
For more information about tickets for this fixture, please visit ntfc.co.uk/news/2024/january/portsmouth_tickets_290124/.
FOLLOWING THE GAME
Domestic iFollow subscribers can listen to live commentary by signing into their account and visiting the match centre from around 2pm on Saturday.
Overseas subscribers and match pass holders can watch all the action live, with commentary from BBC Radio Northampton.
You can follow live match updates over on the official Northampton Town X (formerly Twitter) account. Our X handle is @ntfc.
Local listeners can hear commentary by tuning in to BBC Radio Northampton, please note that this is not available online.
There will be post-match reaction on the website, our official YouTube channel and iFollow.