Shrewsbury Town 2-3 Gillingham: result and report

League One · Saturday 27 August 2016

Result

Shrewsbury Town 2-3 Gillingham

League One · Saturday 27 August 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Shrewsbury Town 2-3 Gillingham: match report

Shrewsbury Town lost to Gillingham 2-3 in the League One on Saturday 27 August 2016. The half-time score was 2-0.

Louis Dodds opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Shrewsbury Town's goals came from Louis Dodds (17') and Louis Dodds (30'). Gillingham scored through Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (59'), Jay Emmanuel-Thomas (73') and Max Ehmer (90+3').

Discipline: Shrewsbury Town received 1 yellow card; Gillingham received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Shrewsbury Town were 20th on 4 points from 4 and Gillingham 10th on 7 points from 4. Shrewsbury Town went on to finish that season 18th with 51 points, and Gillingham 20th with 50.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Shrewsbury Town wins, 4 draws and 2 for Gillingham.

Going into the match Shrewsbury Town's last five read W-L-D-L and Gillingham's L-D-W-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 17'Goal · Louis DoddsShrewsbury Town · 1-0
  • 24'Yellow card · Gary DeeganShrewsbury Town
  • 30'Goal · Louis DoddsShrewsbury Town · 2-0
  • 59'Goal · Jay Emmanuel-ThomasGillingham · 2-1
  • 73'Goal · Jay Emmanuel-ThomasGillingham · 2-2
  • 85'Yellow card · Max EhmerGillingham
  • 90+3'Goal · Max EhmerGillingham · 2-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Shrewsbury Town 4, draws 4, Gillingham 2.

Team news

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Shrewsbury Town line-up

Jayson Leutwiler, Ryan McGivern, Junior Brown, Adam El-Abd, Joe Riley, Ian Blackstone, Abumere Tafadzwa Ogogo, Gary Deegan, Ivan Toney, Louis Dodds, Andrew Mangan

Gillingham line-up

Jonathan Bond, Max Ehmer, Paul Konchesky, Josh Pask, Deji Oshilaja, Billy Knott, Emmanuel Osadebe, Mark Byrne, Josh Wright, Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, Cody McDonald