Chris Wood. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)placeholder image
Chris Wood. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)
Cobblers arranged a behind-closed-doors game against Nottingham Forest to keep a number of first-team players ticking over during the international break.
Town were one of several League One sides not in action over the weekend after their scheduled home game against Barnsley was postponed due to international call-ups within the Tykes squad.
Fielding several members of the first-team squad, Cobblers won Friday’s friendly 3-2 as striker Chris Wood played an hour for an otherwise youthful Nottingham Forest side. The 34-year-old New Zealand international, who has scored 91 Premier League goals, including 20 last season, has been sidelined since October with a knee injury and underwent surgery around the turn of the year. He made his comeback for Forest Under-21s, and scored, last week, and started against Northampton on Friday.
Cobblers interim boss Colin Calderwood said: "We did a couple of days of work after the Mansfield game, then had a day off, and then we arranged a game against Nottingham Forest last Friday. They put out their under-21s with a couple of senior players involved and that was a good exercise for us.
"We had the weekend off but we've been back to it this week. We'll train for a couple of days and then we're looking forward to Friday's game at Bradford, which is obviously an incredibly tough place to go. They’re obviously going for promotion but we just have to look after ourselves.”
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