Crawley Town will arrive at The Croud Meadow on Saturday for the League One clash with home team Shrewsbury Town.
Our full set of predictions, statistics and match poll for Shrewsbury Town v Crawley Town can be seen below - along with the latest match odds.
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Shrewsbury Town
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Shrewsbury Town, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 1-2 League One triumph versus Barnsley.
The only player to score from Shrewsbury Town was John Marquis (18', 67'). Jon Russell (78') was the scorer for Barnsley.
It has not been often in recent times that Shrewsbury Town havenโt conceded. In fact, Shrewsbury Town have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 11 goals in the process. That sort of trend wonโt necessarily be carried forward into this match, of course.
Their previous form shows that Shrewsbury Town:
- have not been beaten in the league by Crawley Town in their previous 6 matches.
- are without a home win in the past 8 matches in the league. They will be so desperate to end this run.
Crawley Town
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Crawley Town head into the match following a 3-0 League One win vs Northampton Town in their last outing.
For Crawley Town, the scorers were Rushian Hepburn-Murphy (39'), Jeremy Kelly (66') and Kamari Doyle (88').
Illustrating their appetite for high-scoring encounters, goals have been scored 22 times in the last six matches in which Crawley Town have taken to the field, yielding a mean average of 3.67 goals each clash. Their opponents have hit 11 of those goals.
Coming into this contest, Crawley Town havenโt won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.
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Head to head
Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 27/02/2012 shows us that Shrewsbury Town have won 3 of these & Crawley Town 0, with the number of drawn results standing at 3.
Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 22 in total at an average of 3.67 goals per match.
The previous league clash featuring these clubs was League One match day 11 on 12/10/2024 and the score finished Crawley Town 3-5 Shrewsbury Town.
The match was refereed by Ruebyn Ricardo.
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Prediction
We feel that Shrewsbury Town will do well to put one past this Crawley Town lineup who will likely just have the edge.
With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 win for Crawley Town at the end of this one.
Should be a close one.
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โฝ๏ธ What are the best odds for this match?
Looking at the bookiesโ prices on the 90 min. result market, putting your money on Shrewsbury Town can be had for 2.88, backing the game finishing all-square is 3.5 and putting your money on a victory for Crawley Town gets 2.35. They are the top market prices on offer at this very moment.
Andre Moura,
13:09 29/04/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
๐๏ธ Team Focus:
Shrewsbury Town
Formed: 1886
Stadium: The Croud Meadow (9,877)
Captain: John Marquis
Chairman: Roland Wycherley
Manager: Michael Appleton
Competitions: League One position 24
๐ Key Man: John Marquis
Generally taking to the field in the Striker position, John Marquis was born in Lewisham, England. After having made a senior debut playing for Millwall in the 2009 - 2010 season, the talented Forward has hit 11 league goals in the League One 2024 - 2025 campaign so far from a total of 39 appearances.