Match Report
The table gap was wide: 42 points between Reading (7th, 75 pts) and Shrewsbury Town (24th, 33 pts). Shrewsbury Town had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 19th in the league over the last five rounds against 24th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Shrewsbury Town 0.89 scored and 1.72 conceded per game, Reading 1.48 and 1.24, with the league averaging 1.29.
Shrewsbury Town had gone 11 games without a win. The five-game form split read 1/15 points for Shrewsbury Town against 10/15 for Reading.
D. Drysdale officiated: 100 games logged, averaging 2.0 yellow cards each. The match was played at Montgomery Waters Meadow in Shrewsbury (capacity 9,875). Reading led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 3 goals for the 1-3 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Shrewsbury Town: Taylor Perry (48') · Reading: Lewis Wing (34'), Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan (53'), Chem Campbell (72')