James Heneghan's Northampton Town v Hartlepool United preview

Cobblers drew 0-0 on their last visit to Hartlepool in February 2016, a result which ended their 10-game winning run.

Appointment/fourth dimension: Saturday, October ix, 3pm

Venue: Victoria Park

Forecast: 19C, clouded

Outs and doubts: Hartlepool: Gary Liddle, Gavan Holohan, Tyler Burey, Fela Olomola, Joe Grayness. Cobblers: Danny Rose (suspended), Joseph Mills, Sid Nelson

Betting: Pools 6/4, draw 9/4, Northampton xix/10

Grade guide: Hartlepool DLDDWL, Cobblers DLDDWL

Current league positions: 10th v 13th

Possible line-ups: Hartlepool (three-5-2): Killip; Hendrie, Byrne, Francis-Angol; Sterry, Shelton, Featherstone, Daly, Jones; Molyneux, Fondop-Talum. Northampton (4-3-three): Roberts; McGowan, Horsfall, Guthrie, Koiki; Sowerby, McWilliams, Lewis; Connolly, Hoskins, Etete.

Man in the centre: Ben Toner

Concluding time out: Hartlepool ii (Daly ii) Morecambe 2; Northampton i (Connolly) Walsall one

About contempo meeting: Sat, February 27, 2016 - Hartlepool 0 Northampton 0

Record v Hartlepool: P67 W28 D15 L24

James Heneghan's preview: Tomorrow's Heaven Bet League Two encounter at Victoria Park will be a boxing of Hartlepool United'south terrific dwelling house class against Northampton's excellent record on the road.

With iv wins and a draw from v games, Pools boast the division's best home record at this early on stage of the campaign. Crawley Town, Walsall, Carlisle United and Bristol Rovers were all sent packing from the north east without a point between them, while Exeter City fought back to draw in the most recent league game at Victoria Park.

Initially, Hartlepool adjusted to life back in the EFL with impressive ease, winning iii of their first iv, merely things have tailed off a trivial in recent weeks, much similar Northampton. In fact, the records of these ii teams over the terminal six games in all competitions are identical: i win, three draws and two defeats.

Equally a result, both take gone from occupying a pinnacle three berth before in the season to now sitting in mid-table with iii places and one betoken separating the Cobblers in 10th to United in 13th. The two managers will run into tomorrow as an opportunity to get back on rails.

For the Cobblers, it is especially important that they go back to a resemblance of their all-time selves following last Sat's poor functioning against Sutton United. They improved against Walsall in midweek merely a league game away from domicile will provide a much stiffer exam for Jon Brady's men.

Nonetheless, whilst Sutton was disappointing, and whilst performances remain inconsistent, fifteen points and 10th identify is a perfectly respectable render at this phase of the flavour, especially with the hope of improvements still to come.

Brady will exist hoping Jon Guthrie has sufficiently recovered from COVID to offset in the north e this weekend because his absence was keenly-felt against Sutton. He brings calmness and leadership to the dorsum-line and is arguably Town's biggest threat from fix-pieces.

But with or without Guthrie, Cobblers need to make improvements all across the pitch if they are to bounce dorsum to winning ways, all the more then given the calibration of their job this weekend.

Source: https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/sport/football/james-heneghans-hartlepool-united-v-northampton-town-preview-3412416

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