Fleetwood look a solid bet to see off Northampton at the Highbury Stadium on Saturday.
Fleetwood v Northampton - Saturday 15:00
Fleetwood stretched their unbeaten league run to 16 matches with a dogged 1-0 win at MK Dons last weekend, Cian Bolger nodding the only goal from a corner midway through the second half. And Uwe Rosler admitted afterwards he was a relieved man to bag the three points at the end of a draining three-game week that included a come-from-behind victory over Bradford.
Now the German is grateful for the respite of a full seven days to prepare for this game and the 11/10 available on the home win is absurd if the Cod Army maintain the standard they have been setting over the past four months. Just two points off an automatic place with a shot ratio of nearly 63 per cent, there’s nothing accidental about this run.
Justin Edinburgh has steadied the ship at Northampton with a creditable 2-2 draw at Southend last weekend backing up three successive home wins against the current bottom three. But the Cobblers were perhaps the beneficiaries of the schedule at Roots Hall, considering that Phil Brown’s men had just negotiated two tough away games at Millwall and Oxford.
However, it was only a month ago that the visitors were shipping five goals in successive away games at Bristol Rovers and MK Dons, so even allowing for the Edinburgh effect, it’s not stretching the imagination too much to believe that Fleetwood can land the routine 2-0 correct score at odds of 9/1. It should be no bigger than 6/1 according to my tissue.
