Northampton Town 0 Stevenage 1: As it happened
We’ll have everything you need to know on this page throughout the afternoon...
Cobblers v Stevenage LIVE
Key Events
- New League One campaign gets up and running at Sixfields
- Town host fellow newcomers Stevenage in opener
- Team news to be announced at 2pm
We’re back!
Hello and welcome to the start of the new EFL season! It’s miserable at Sixfields, more like November than August, but Cobblers get their campaign up and running this afternoon against Stevenage.
We’ll have updates, team news and more on this page throughout the afternoon so stay tuned...
Man in the middle
Lewis Smith, a relative newcomer to the EFL having been promoted last season, will be in charge today
Get ready for a late one
The EFL’s new guidance on stoppage-time could mean we’re in for a late one today. Referees will adopt a new approach to timekeeping this season to ‘ensure a more accurate calculation of addition time’ and also an improvement in the amount of time the ball is in play.
Last night’s EFL opener between Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton saw six minutes added on in the first half and nine in the second.
TEAM NEWS
Cobblers: Burge, Sherring, Guthrie, Monthé, Odimayo, Brough, Sowerby, Leonard, Pinnock, Hoskins, Simpson
Subs: Dadge, McGowan, Koiki, Dyche, Hondermarck, Appéré, Bowie
McWilliams is missing with the knock that kept him out against MK Dons last weekend. Jon Brady did say in the week that he would recover in time to play today but clearly that’s not the case. We’ll hopefully find out more when we speak to JB post-match. McWilliams one of six players missing - Fox, Hylton, Haynes, Lintott and Magloire the others.
Meanwhile, Patrick Brough, Manny Monthe and Tyreece Simpson all make their Cobblers debuts. Marc Leonard also straight in after rejoining on loan.