[ 10 Apr 23 ] Northampton v GILLS Match Thread

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- Northampton lead the wins over the Gills by 54 wins to 41 and there have only been 20 draws in the 115 meetings. The Gills are winless against Northampton in 3 meetings (2 defeats) since their last win against them - a 2-1 win at Sixfields in February 2018.
- The Gills are winless in 3 at home to Northampton but they have won 1, drawn 1 and lost 1 of their last 3 trips to Sixfields. They have also won 2, drawn 2 and lost 2 of their last 6 visits as well as winning 3, drawing 3 and losing 3 of their last 9.
- Northampton's 3-0 loss at Newport on Friday ended an unbeaten sequence of 8 league games which involved 5 wins. They are now winless in 2 league games and have only twice this season gone a maximum of 3 league games without registering a win.
- The Gills ended a 3-game away blank sheet run with their last away goal at Barrow. Northampton had their 3-game home clean sheet run ended when Stevenage scored in their last home game. Town are unbeaten in 4 home games (3 wins) and have won 4 and lost 1 of their last 8.
- Northampton have conceded just 2 first half goals in their last 14 league games including 1 in their Good Friday loss at Newport and after the initial 8 games in that sequence saw 0 conceded. The Gills have scored 3 in their last 14 since scoring 3 first half goals against Swindon.
- Leyton Orient have only conceded 1 home lead all season whilst Northampton have given away 7 leads but only 1 have been in their last 8 home games. Town have taken 1 lead in each of their last 5 home games and their total of 17 is bettered only by Sutton's league-high of 18.
- Northampton are the side in League 2 with the greatest accuracy with 37.4% of their 465 shots at goal being on target. The Gills have the poorest accuracy in the division with 29.1% of their 375 shots at goal being on target.

(15.02) Kick Off [ 4 - 1 - 3 - 2 ]
Max Ehmer starts and makes his 350th appearance for the Gills - the 14th player for the club to reach that milestone.

(15.29) A last-ditch block from McKenzie prevents Northampton from asking big questions from Morris. Northampton continue forward and Williams blocks a follow up effort for a corner.

(15.34) GOAL! Northampton Town 1-0 Gillingham: Appere

(15.39) A Guthrie header forces Morris into a good save.

(15.43) A shot comes in which could go anywhere. Wright gets his body in the way, takes the impact to concede a corner and limps away in discomfort.

(15.47) 1 additional minute is added on.

(15.49) Half time 1-0

(16.05) The second half kicks off.

(16.20) A Northampton effort goes just wide of the post. Harris makes a triple change.

(16.21) GOAL! Northampton Town 1-1 Gillingham: O'Brien

(16.35) O'Brien works some space between 2 defenders and fires a shot which beats the 'keeper but also misses the target by no more than a couple of feet.

(16.36) Northampton come forward from the goal-kick. A driven cross/shot flashes wide of the goal after the needed attacking touch was a couple of yards too far from goal.

(16.43) GOAL! Northampton Town 2-1 Gillingham: Hondermarck

(16.51) The referee signals for 5 additional minutes.

(16.57) Arilliant ball in from MacDonald is met by Nichols but his header goes inches wide of the left post!

(16.58) FULL TIME 2-1

Attendance: 6,904 (847)
Position: 19th
Referee: Darren Drysdale
Match highlights:
BBC Match Report: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65159506