About Match
3 points and 6 places separate them: Shrewsbury Town 18th with 7, Crawley Town 24th with 4. On the form table Shrewsbury Town stand 10th over the last five rounds, despite being 18th overall. Against a league average of 1.26 goals per team per game, Shrewsbury Town run at 0.71 scored and 1.57 conceded, Crawley Town at 0.86 and 1.86. Victory would move Shrewsbury Town to 10 points and up to 10th, with other results unchanged.
Crawley Town arrive off four straight defeats.
The sides have met 10 times in the GioScore results database: 4 wins for Shrewsbury Town, 4 draws and 2 for Crawley Town, at 2.9 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 40% of meetings won. Goals tend to flow: 60% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 70%.
The venue is Montgomery Waters Meadow in Shrewsbury, with room for 9,875 spectators.