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Shrewsbury Town

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Shrewsbury Town go into this game following a 3-3 EFL Cup drawn game versus Notts County.

In that game, Shrewsbury Town had 41% possession and 14 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Shrewsbury Town, goals were scored by Joshua Kayode (68') and Jordan Shipley (71', 84'). Notts County got 8 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Conor Grant (4'), Sam Austin (23') and Alassana Jatta (89') scored for Notts County. Shrewsbury Town ran out winners after a 4-3 penalty shootout.

It’s not been often in recent times that Shrewsbury Town have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Shrewsbury Town have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 12 goals in the process.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Shrewsbury Town:

• have not registered a win against Peterborough United in their previous 4 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 3 league games.

Peterborough United

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Oxford United in EFL Cup competition, Peterborough United will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Peterborough United managed 46% possession and 11 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For their opponents, Oxford United had 10 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Tyler Goodrham (20') and Matt Phillips (41') scored for Oxford United.

In 5 of the prior 6 games involving Peterborough United, a relatively low number of goals have gone in between them and opposing teams. The overall average number of goals per game during that period comes out as a meagre 2.5, with the average goals for The Posh equalling 1. Despite that, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend shall be maintained in this next match or not.

Heading into this contest, Peterborough United remain undefeated by Shrewsbury Town in away games against them for the last 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 31/10/2020 tells us that Shrewsbury Town have won 1 of them & Peterborough United 5, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

In all, 20 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 6 for The Shrews and 14 for The Posh. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.

The previous league clash between these clubs was League One match day 29 on 20/01/2024 when the final score was Peterborough United 2-1 Shrewsbury Town.

The match was refereed by Matthew Corlett.

📋 Team News: Shrewsbury Town

Regarding absentees, there’s just one fitness concern for the Shrewsbury Town boss Paul Hurst to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed squad. George Nurse (Cruciate ligament tear) is sidelined.

📋 Team News: Peterborough United

Peterborough United boss Darren Ferguson has not got a full squad to pick from. George Nevett (Wrist fracture), Rio Adebisi (Knee injury) and Ryan De Havilland (Knee surgery) will not be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

Shrewsbury Town could find themselves struggling to score against this Peterborough United lineup who we think might manage to score & go ahead.

We’ve gone for a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 winning margin for Peterborough United after 90 minutes.

Little in this one.

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

Renata Leite, 11:04 17/08/2024