Northampton Town vs Colchester United Prediction & Preview

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Northampton Town vs Colchester United prediction, team news and kick-off time for Saturday's League Two game at Sixfields, live on Sky Sports+.

The question at Sixfields on Saturday is a narrow one: can Northampton Town score the goal that beats a Colchester United side who keep drawing? Northampton have failed to score in three of their last six. Colchester have drawn four of theirs.

Northampton Town v Colchester United kicks off at 12:30 BST on Saturday, 24 October 2026 at Sixfields Stadium in Northampton, a League Two fixture shown live in the UK on Sky Sports+. Chris Hogg's side have seven points from their last six league games. Danny Cowley's Colchester have four, every one of them from a draw.

Northampton Town vs Colchester United: match facts

Four goals in six games for Northampton Town

That is the number that frames the Cobblers' autumn. Two wins, one draw and three defeats in the last six, four scored and five conceded, and only one of those six games in which they managed two or more.

They also kept two clean sheets in the run, which is the half of it Hogg can build on. The other half is that they drew a blank three times.

Home has not been a fortress. Northampton have won 1 of 3 at Sixfields across this run and 1 of 3 away. Tuesday brought a 0-1 home defeat by Tranmere Rovers, 4 days before this match, and it came after the best result of the lot: a 2-0 win away to Grimsby Town, 7 days out. A 1-1 draw away at York City sits 14 days back.

Colchester United cannot win, but they are hard to beat

Cowley's side have not won any of their last six in League Two. They have lost only two. The draws read 1-1 away to Chesterfield 4 days before this fixture, 0-0 at home to Exeter City 7 days before it, 1-1 at home to Cheltenham Town and 1-1 at home to Crewe Alexandra.

The defeats were 0-1 away to Newport County, 14 days out, and 1-3 away to Swindon Town, 49 days out. That trip to Swindon is the only game in the six where Colchester shipped two or more.

Scoring is the problem. Four goals in six, and not once have they scored twice. Both sides found the net in four of Colchester's six games; in Northampton's six, that happened once.

What to expect from Northampton Town v Colchester United

Nothing in either run points to a loose afternoon. None of Northampton's last six produced three or more goals in the game. Colchester have had one, at Swindon.

So the margins are thin and they favour the home side only slightly: seven points against four, and a team that has at least won matches recently against one that has not.

Team news

Hogg went into the week without fresh concerns, with James Maxwell having completed a full week of training and Janoi Donacien fit, according to the club. Colchester were missing Jack Payne, Harry Anderson, Kylian Kouassi, Sean Raggett and Teddy Bishop for the home draw with Exeter City, Payne and Anderson both having picked up injuries that week, as Yahoo Sports reported. Ben Perry, on loan at Northampton for the second half of the 2024/25 season, is back after 14 months out with an ACL injury and headed a late equaliser at Chesterfield in midweek, per the Northampton Chronicle & Echo.

Northampton Town vs Colchester United prediction

Our call is a 1-0 Northampton Town win over Colchester United in League Two at Sixfields Stadium on Saturday, 24 October 2026. Colchester have taken four points from their last six and have not scored twice in any of them, which is a hard way to win away from home. Northampton have seven points from theirs and two clean sheets, and they go into this one having lost at home on Tuesday, which tends to sharpen a side.

Our prediction: Northampton Town 1-0 Colchester United

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