AFTER-MATCH ANALYSIS: NORTHAMPTON

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I was happy with the result even though I had said we would score three. We looked a lot more threatening once we had managed to score and could have had another one or two. We avoided the banana skin of a lower league team even though Thomas tried his hardest to get sent off. Hopefully match fitness will improve his timing and positioning.
We always had a little more than the cobblers and apart from a couple of bad scares seemed in control as the second half went on. Rasiak was a tremendous plus and James has again shown his quality in crossing the ball. Ricky scored bravely with a diving header from one and Rasiak laid another on a plate for Adam. Schneiderlin was an in aand out performance but he does have the capability of making telling passes. Again with a couple more games under his belt he should improve after last years injury problems. Kelvin was his usual self and made one good save to keep us in the game. A lot of plusses from the game and hopefully we can avoid defeat on Saturday to really give our season a lift.