About Match
The table reads 23rd (Shrewsbury Town, 3 pts) against 13th (Gillingham, 6 pts), 3 points apart. Per game in the league, Shrewsbury Town score 0.4 and conceding 2, Gillingham 1.2 and 1.2, against a competition average of 1.33 goals per team per game. Three points here take Shrewsbury Town to 6 and up to 13th, overtaking Gillingham, assuming other results stand.
22 meetings are on record — 7 won by Shrewsbury Town, 4 by Gillingham, 11 drawn, at 2.36 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 27% of the meetings went to the host. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 32% of the meetings went over two goals.
The match takes place at Montgomery Waters Meadow in Shrewsbury (capacity 9,875).