Exeter City snatch all 3 points in stoppage time

Report: Northampton 1 Exeter City 2

John O’Flynn scored a stoppage-time winner for the Grecians as they triumphed 2-1 at Sixfields against Northampton Town.

The home side had started on the front-foot, with Leicester loanee Jacob Blyth slotting in after just six minutes.

It could have been two when his strike-partner Clive Platt was unlucky to hit the bar with a thunderous strike.

But Scot Bennett drew level before the break as he got on the end of a corner – and City sub John O’Flynn was on hand in the three added minutes to head home a cross and send the 258 travelling home happy.

City manager Paul Tisdale made just a single alteration to his starting line-up ahead of the Northampton Town clash, following last weekend’s draw away ay Dagenham.

Jimmy Keohane comes into the starting XI, with Matt Grimes the man to take a seat on the bench. Striker John O’Flynn also returns from injury but begins the game on the bench.

For the hosts, last season’s Exeter man Kevin Amankwaah started at right-back and former Grecians loanee Chris Hackett also began on the right flank.

Northampton started the livelier and saw the most of the ball in the early exchanges. Former City players Chris Hackett and Kevin Amankwaah were causing the early threat down the Cobblers’ left-flank and the latter delivered a left-footed cross into the six-yard box within a minute, which was dealt with well by Scot Bennett.

And despite a quick break by the Grecians and a few attempts to get the ball down, the Grecians were trailing with just over five minutes played. It was a direct ball upfield that released Blyth, who latched onto the ball, ran at Artur Krysiak and poked coolly past the stopper.

Exeter were hoping to react instantly and a fine cross-field ball from Alan Gow found Arron Davies on the left flank – the winger worked some space with the dummy run of Craig Woodman and his cross just evaded the stooping head of Sam Parkin.

The Cobblers were using the route-one approach with regularity and with some success. Plenty of threat was coming down the flanks too and Blyth came within a few yards of doubling Northampton’s lead as he powered an Amankwaah cross just wide.