📊 Form Guide

Shrewsbury Town

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Shrewsbury Town prepare for this game after a 1-1 League One stalemate versus Charlton Athletic.

The only scorer from Shrewsbury Town was Daniel Udoh (23'). George Dobson (46') scored for Charlton Athletic.

It has not been often in recent times where Shrewsbury Town have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Shrewsbury Town have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 9 goals in the process.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Shrewsbury Town:

• have left without a victory over Leyton Orient in their previous 6 league matches.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league games.

Leyton Orient

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Fleetwood Town in League One action, Leyton Orient will be aiming to make amends here.

Xavier Simons (93') was the scorer for Fleetwood Town.

The numbers tell their own story, and Leyton Orient have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 10 goals overall. In defence, Leyton Orient seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. We shall soon see whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.

A look at their previous results shows us that Leyton Orient:

• remain undefeated by Shrewsbury Town when having played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

An inspection of their past head to head results stretching back to 04/03/2006 reveals that these encounters have been a source of anguish for Shrewsbury Town. They have not been able to register any victories whatsoever whereas Leyton Orient have maintained the edge over them, winning in 83% of those ties.

A combined total of 17 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 from The Shrews and 13 created by The O's. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.83.

The last league encounter featuring these clubs was League One match day 9 on 23/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Leyton Orient 1-0 Shrewsbury Town.

The referee was Lewis Smith.

📋 Team News: Shrewsbury Town

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the lone fitness concern for the Shrewsbury Town manager Paul Hurst to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust squad. George Nurse (Cruciate ligament tear) misses out.

📋 Team News: Leyton Orient

Due to a completely injury-free squad ready to go, the Leyton Orient boss Richie Wellens does not have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this match.

⚡ Prediction

We feel that Leyton Orient and Shrewsbury Town won’t have much between them here, and goals could be hard to come by.

It’s looking like it could well end up as a draw. That’s why our selection here is for a 0-0 draw when the full-time whistle blows.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 11:03 27/04/2024