📏 Form Guide

Northampton Town

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Northampton Town will be looking for an improved result here after the 1-0 League One loss in their previous game against Bradford City.

Stephen Humphrys (14') was the scorer for Bradford City.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Northampton Town have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Northampton Town have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 12 goals along the way.

Looking at their past form shows that Northampton Town:

• haven't beaten Wigan Athletic in their last 6 league matches.
• have not won at home in their last 4 league matches. That's never good.

Wigan Athletic

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In their previous game, Wigan drew 0-0 in the League One tie with Leyton Orient.

The trend of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games featuring Wigan Athletic has been apparent of late. Checking on their last 6 outings reveals that it’s happened 5 times. During those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal tally of 7 and Wigan Athletic have scored 5. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward here, however.

Their past results show that Wigan Athletic:

• are winless against Northampton Town when having played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are undefeated by Northampton Town when they've played them away from home in the last 6 league matches. An impressive run.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 8 league games. Their travelling support will be needed here, for sure.

👥 Head to head

Delving into their past head to head results going back to 09/02/2021 shows that these fixtures have not been happy ones for Northampton Town. They have not been able to get any victories at all while Wigan have been too good for them, getting wins in 67 per cent of those ties.

A combined sum of 15 goals were scored between them in this period, with 5 of them for The Cobblers and 10 being from The Latics. The average goals per game has been 2.5.

The previous league meeting featuring these sides was League One match day 1 on 02/08/2025 when it finished Wigan Athletic 3-1 Northampton Town.

The referee was Alex Chilowicz.

✨ Prediction

Our feeling is that Wigan Athletic and Northampton Town should both get enough opportunities to score, although it’s hard to separate the two.

It could well end in a draw. We therefore think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 1-1 draw at the end of the 90.

Peter Guest, 03:02 06/04/2026