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
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.
Key events
- 17'Goal · Louis Dodds
- 24'Yellow card · Gary Deegan
- 30'Goal · Louis Dodds
- 59'Goal · Jay Emmanuel-Thomas
- 73'Goal · Jay Emmanuel-Thomas
- 85'Yellow card · Max Ehmer
- 90+3'Goal · Max Ehmer
Head-to-head
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