Shrewsbury Town 2-1 Chesterfield: result and report
League One · Saturday 20 August 2016
Result
Shrewsbury Town 2-1 Chesterfield
League One · Saturday 20 August 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Shrewsbury Town 2-1 Chesterfield: match report
Shrewsbury Town defeated Chesterfield 2-1 in the League One on Saturday 20 August 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.
J. O'Shea opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Shrewsbury Town's goals came from Junior Brown (24') and Adam El-Abd (84'). Chesterfield scored through J. O'Shea (14').
Discipline: Shrewsbury Town received 4 yellow cards; Chesterfield received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Shrewsbury Town were 23rd on 1 point from 3 and Chesterfield 2nd on 7 points from 3. Shrewsbury Town went on to finish that season 18th with 51 points, and Chesterfield 24th with 37.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Shrewsbury Town wins, 3 draws and 4 for Chesterfield.
Going into the match Shrewsbury Town's last five read L-D-L and Chesterfield's W-W-D.
Key events
- 14'Goal · J. O'Shea
- 24'Goal · Junior Brown
- 38'Yellow card · Dan Gardner
- 62'Yellow card · R. McGivern
- 70'Yellow card · Junior Brown
- 81'Yellow card · Ivan Toney
- 84'Goal · Adam El-Abd
- 85'Yellow card · Adam El-Abd
- 90+5'Yellow card · Ian Evatt
Head-to-head
Team news
Shrewsbury Town line-up
Jayson Leutwiler, Ryan McGivern, Junior Brown, Adam El-Abd, Joe Riley, Ian Blackstone, Gary Deegan, Ivan Toney, Jim O'Brien, AJ Leitch-Smith, Moha El Ouriachi
Chesterfield line-up
Ryan Fulton, Paul McGinn, Sam Hird, Gary Liddle, Ian Ross Evatt, Dion Donohue, Dan Gardner, Abdelhak Belaid, Jay O'Shea, Ched Evans, Gboly Ariyibi