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Fleetwood Town 0 Shrewsbury Town 3 Bowman (49'minutes), Vela (72'minutes), Udoh (80'minutes)


Town XI: Cairns (GK), Andrew ©, McLaughlin, Clarke, Camps (Morris 59’), G.Garner (Conn-Clarke 35’), Matete, Biggins, Lane, Johnston, Hayes (C.Johnson 76’).

Subs not used: Crellin (GK), Clark, Boyle, McMillan.

Shrews XI: Marosi (GK), Leahy, Ebanks-Landell, Pennington, Vela, Udoh (Cosgrove 86’), Bowman (Pyke 86’), Ogbeta (Daniels 90’), Davis, Bennett, Nurse.

Subs not used: Burgoyne (GK), Caton, Leshabela, Craig.

Officials:

Referee: ANTHONY BACKHOUSE

Assistant Referees: Paul Graham and Lewis Raper

Fourth Official: Martin Woods

As Christmas stuffings go this was a big one in view of both sides proximity to the drop zone, the result was well deserved the better team won and for the home side on that showing they will do well to stay up.
After yesterday's eat all competition had to find someone to watch given the diseased boys at Deepdale postponement.
So off to Cod land it was, one change since the last time I went there is they do old codger's concessions so only £19 to get in however this sadly seems to be a growing trend this season, no programmes.
Have to say looking at the two line uos the visitors seemed to have more experience within their ranks than a youngish looking home side.
A decent start to teh game with chances at both ends Clarke should probably have scored from a corner for Fleetwood before within a minute he had nearly set up Bowman at the other but was bailed out by his keeper who got a hand to Bowman's chip.
Biggins fired narrowly wide for the home side before Shrewsbury started to completely dictate play. They had a lot of experience within their ranks Ebanks- Landell, Davis, Bennett, Vela and Bowman plus the hard working midfielder Leahy.
Vela a one time Bolton player looked to be a decent prospect at one time like his former team mate at Bolton Zach Clark who seems to have dispappeared completely from the game.
A typical Cotterill side they looked sharper to the ball and found space behind the home sides backline, looked more like scoring than the home side but couldn't break the deadlock before the break



Didn't take long for the Shrews to score at the start of the second period, ball iside the right back by Leahy, Ogbeta in space cross across the 6 yard box Bowman tap in, no more than they deserved. They dominated until about the hour mark than briefly the home side up their tempo, from a Shrewsbury corner teh home side broke away, young substitute Conn-Clarke broke clear was eventually surrounded by defenders but managed to fire off a shot which forced Marosi into a save, Lane then fired in an effort which was blocked for a corner. Just as it seemed the home side were clawing their way back Shrewsbury got a second.
Clearence down the right some inter passing outside the box ball to Vela, left foot bottom left corner 2 up, doen and dusted? Six minutes later it was two 50/50 were won by Shrewsbury in midfield the ball went Udoh who buried off the underside of the bar from 20 plus yards cracking goal.
That saw a mass exodus from home fans as the smallish but noisy away fans celebrated in style, litte to trouble them in the remaining minutes as Shrewsbury took home the points