Town’s debilitating injury issues continued before and during the game, losing both captain Jon Guthrie and midfielder Jack Sowerby, but they refused to buckle. Louis Appéré opened the scoring and after Donovan Wilson levelled, Mitch Pinnock scored a second-half winner. Cobblers remain second and in pole position for promotion with three games to go. Here are our player ratings from Gander Green Lane...
5. Sam Hoskins
Captain for the night and he led by example with an incredible shift. He was almost playing both right-back and right-wing at the same time. Two moments epitomised how he left it all out there - the lung-busting run to set up Pinnock's winner at one end and the vital intervention in his own penalty box to save a goal at the other... 9 Photo: Pete Norton
6. Ryan Haynes
Ajiboye is a tough customer to deal with, as he discovered for Sutton's goal, but other than that moment the tricky winger didn't get too much joy and was often crowded out when on the ball. Atoned for his error with a crucial block after a mix-up in Town's penalty box and all in all it was another strong performance... 8 Photo: Pete Norton
7. Marc Leonard
Not many 21-year-old Premier League loanees would thrive in such a blood-and-thunder, physical League Two encounter but he relishes the battle and was absolutely relentless. Was still pressing Sutton's players in their own half in stoppage-time. There was also a sprinkling of his quality on the ball at times... 8.5 Photo: Pete Norton
8. Will Hondermarck
He won the ball back so many times in midfield and galloped up and down the pitch all night long. Won important headers in his own penalty box and somehow found the energy to keep closing Sutton players down even though he was evidently out on his feet in the closing stages... 8 Photo: Pete Norton