Our prediction for this League 1 match:
Buoyed by back-to-back wins over Shrewsbury Town (4-0) and Portsmouth (4-0), Blackpool will look to give fans yet another reason to celebrate when they take on Northampton on Tuesday evening. The Seasiders have been scoring goals for fun of late and they are likely to stick to their attacking style of play. A man to keep an eye on in the home team will be centre-forward Jake Beesley, who has been scoring goals for fun of late.
The Cobblers, on the other hand, have been struggling on the travels in recent weeks and given their four-game losing run on the road, anything but a routine home win would be a big surprise. Jon Brady is unlikely to make changes to the team that defeated Cambridge United 2-1 at the weekend. This will be the first meeting between the two sides since May 2021 when Blackpool outplayed Northampton 3-0 in the League One.
Highlighted Player (Chris Maxwell):
Chris Maxwell is a Welsh goalkeeper who was born in St Asaph on July 30, 1990. Maxwell began his youth career at Penrhyn Bay (1998-2000) and in 2000 he moved to Wrexham. The 188-cm-tall shoot-stopper made his first-team debut for Wrexham at the age of 18 and he played 76 league games for the club from 2008 to 2012.
During the 2008/2009 season he spent six months on loan at Welsh club Connah’s Quay Nomads and in 2012 he joined Fleetwood Town. Chris Maxwell made 110 appearances in the league for the Trawlermen and on May 16, 2016 he signed a three-year deal with Championship side Preston North End. You should know that he managed to keep clean sheets in 38 appearances for the Lilywhites in the 2016/2017 Championship campaign.
Due to his dual citizenship, Maxwell is capable of representing both Wales and Scotland at senior level, but he played for the Dragons at youth level, being capped for the U21 team 16 times.
Highlighted Team (Northampton):
Northampton are a professional football club that compete in the League Two, the English fourth tier. The Cobblers play their home matches at Sixfields Stadium, the venue that has a capacity of 7,798. Northampton Town are well known for their claret and white home kit, while black is the dominant colour of their away jersey.
Northampton did well to make it to the Charity Shield final in 1909, with the team suffering a 2-0 loss to Newcastle United in the title game. The Cobblers are holding the record for the shortest time taken to secure promotion from the bottom tier to the top flight and relegated back down to the bottom again. Northampton Town managed to do so in only nine years.
Peterborough united are regarded as the club’s main rivals, with other significant rivalries including the likes of Oxford United, Milton Keynes Dons, Cambridge United, Coventry City, and Rushden & Diamonds.