Shrewsbury Town vs Burton Albion Live Stream, Predictions

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Shrewsbury Town

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Shrewsbury Town won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 0-4 EFL Trophy loss in their previous game against Port Vale.

Dennis Politic (15', 56', 57') and Brad Walker (74') scored for Port Vale.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Shrewsbury Town have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Shrewsbury Town have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 11 goals during that time.

Burton Albion

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Burton Albion will come into the clash following a 2-3 EFL Trophy win with the defeat of Sheffield Wednesday in their most recent game.

For Burton Albion, the goalscorers were Sam Winnall (8'), Jonny Smith (17') and Davis Keillor-Dunn (51'). Mallik Wilks (32') and Callum Paterson (34') scored for Sheffield Wednesday.

Showing their partiality to action-packed encounters, the back of the net has been hit 25 times in the previous 6 matches in which Burton Albion have played, giving an average of 4.17 goals per fixture. Opposition teams have hit 12 of those goals. Nonetheless, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend shall persist here in this game.

Ahead of this meeting, Burton Albion have not lost to Shrewsbury Town when they've played them away from home in the last 5 matches in the league. A very good record, indeed.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 16/02/2019 shows that Shrewsbury Town have won 2 of these games and Burton Albion 1, with the tally of drawn results being 3.

A total of 10 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 6 for The Shrews and 4 netted by The Brewers. That is an average goals per game value of 1.67.

ℹ️ Team News: Shrewsbury Town

The Shrewsbury Town boss Steve Cotterill doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this match thanks to a completely injury-free squad to pick from.

📰 Team News: Burton Albion

Owing to an otherwise available group, there is only the lone fitness worry for the Burton Albion manager Dino Maamria to contend with. Mustapha Carayol (Knee Injury) won’t be in action.

💡 Prediction

We feel that Burton Albion should get enough chances to get a goal against this Shrewsbury Town side, but it realistically won’t be as many as they’ll concede.

Our selection here is for both teams to score in a 2-1 winning score for Shrewsbury Town at full-time. Should be a good one.

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Victor Martins, 23:34 19/09/2022