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Northampton Town First Half Goals
In 99 EFL League Two matches, 65.7% of Northampton Town’s first halves produced a goal, 31st of the 36 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 50.5% of them and conceded in 31.3%.
What Northampton Town’s first halves look like
Early scoring in Northampton Town’s matches is overwhelmingly their own: the net bulges at the right end before the break in 50.5% of matches and at the wrong one in 31.3%, 19.2pp apart. The first goal is usually the last one before the break: a second follows only 34% of the time against 46% division-wide.
Getting two before the break is a stretch in this fixture: 22.2% against 31.8% across the division. Northampton Town come 31st of 36 in the published EFL League Two field for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.
The record here is thinner than most of the division's: 99 matches against a typical 141. Three-goal first halves stay scarce, 6.1% of Northampton Town’s matches against 11.2% for the division as a whole.
Every figure on this page rests on 99 completed Northampton Town matches over 3 seasons (2021 to 2026). At that size a single percentage point is about one match, so read each rate as a range rather than a figure.
Northampton Town first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 65.7% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 22.2% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 6.1% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 0.98 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 50.5% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 31.3% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.64 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.34 |
| Matches counted | 99 |
| Seasons covered | 3 (2021 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 70.0% | 18.0% | 52.0% | 28.0% | 0.92 | 50 |
| Away | 61.2% | 26.5% | 49.0% | 34.7% | 1.04 | 49 |
Northampton Town score before halftime 52.0% of the time at home against 49.0% away, a gap of 3.0pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Northampton Town against EFL League Two
| Line | Northampton Town | EFL League Two | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 65.7% | 68.9% | −3.2pp |
| Over 1.5 | 22.2% | 31.8% | −9.6pp |
| Over 2.5 | 6.1% | 11.2% | −5.1pp |
Counted from 99 matches · 3 seasons · 2021 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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