Ollie Westbury & Jonny Drury analyse Shrewsbury Town's comeback and penalty drama

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Jonny Drury is joined by Ollie Westbury to analyse Salop's penalty shoot-out victory over Notts County. Salop found themselves two down before a superb second half comeback with a goal from Josh Kayode and a brace from Jordan Shipley putting them ahead. County scored again to force spot kicks - with Toby Savin saving one penalty and Mal Benning lashing home the winning spot kick.

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00:00Hello, welcome to ShropshireStar.com. My name is Jonny Durie at a very wet crowd meadow

00:12after we've been thoroughly entertained. Oli Shrewsbury come back from 2-0 down to go 3-2

00:17up, equaliser for Knox County before some penalty shootout drama at the meadow. Oli

00:22booed off at half time but cheering in celebration at the end with all that excitement we saw.

00:27Yeah, there were some real grumbles at half time. There was, wasn't there? Yeah, there

00:30was. You can actually hear the rain on the roof. It's still absolutely chucking it down.

00:33It's a really pleasant day today but yeah, it's absolutely chucking it down now. Yeah,

00:38I mean it was, I mean it's a cliche isn't it, a game of two halves but Town were, Town

00:43struggled didn't they for the vast majority of that first 45 minutes. They were probably

00:47outclassed by Knox County but as probably, as a difference that you felt that you could

00:56see between the two sides in the first half after the break, Town were excellent. They

01:01were more aggressive, you know, it looked like they had more belief, they played higher

01:05up the pitch, they won the ball back high and maybe it's just, you know, it's a new

01:09group coming together. It was a tough opening day at Stevenage and you kind of wrote on

01:14that game that we felt like we didn't learn a great deal from that and yeah, maybe that

01:22confidence just maybe took a bit of a hit at the weekend, losing your opening fixture,

01:26you kind of have a bit of self-doubt perhaps and in that first half, I mean it really wasn't

01:30good. That was probably just a little bit concerning how easily maybe at times Town

01:35were put open but, you know, can't fault them because I mean, I probably won't be the only

01:41one that thought that that was, looked a long way back in the second half but they did,

01:45they came back, they got the crowd going. There wasn't many here tonight but they got

01:48the crowd going and to be honest, it was a brilliant game. It was disappointing after

01:53they went 3-2 up that they conceded but then, you know, they showed some great composure

01:56from this point on.

01:57No, they did. Second half, you know, I know Paul Hirst talked on Saturday about it being

02:01a rugby match and a lack of quality on show but in that second half, Southlake did some

02:05really good stuff. A lot of it coming from the creator-in-chief, Tommy O'Reilly, we all

02:10waxed lyrical about it on Truesviews tomorrow but just, I suppose in terms of you don't

02:15want to start the season with two defeats, you don't want to start the season with a

02:18defeat where you've lost to a side in League Two. So just confidence and character as well,

02:26you know, coming back from 2-0 down. It would have been very easy for Salah to shrink and

02:31shrivel and lose that game, you know, 3-1, 4-1 but they've come back and, you know, massive

02:37for the players, massive for Paul Hirst as well.

02:39Yeah, I mean they had chances in the first half, didn't they? They went one down and

02:42then Toto Ntiala missed from real close range when he probably should have scored and then

02:47obviously they went two down. And they started to come back into it in the last five minutes

02:52of the first half, I thought, but after half-time they were, you know, they were much, much

02:57better. You know, the crowd got on top, you know, kind of got on top and they kind of

03:01really tried to slam home the advantage. So, you know, it was pleasing, it's nice to see.

03:06I feel like we've learnt much more about this Shrewsbury team tonight than we did on Saturday.

03:11I mean, I reiterate the thoughts from Saturday. I mean, it's a horrible game to watch. It's

03:15a damage, just completely not. They spoiled it, didn't try and play any football but that

03:19was, I mean, you know, you can see some of the criticism from the start of last season

03:23was that you just weren't waiting for the net to bulge. There was no entertainment,

03:27whereas you can't say that that game there wasn't entertaining. It was good to watch.

03:31You know, if you play like that, sometimes you come out on the wrong side, sometimes

03:34you come out on the right side but, you know, I must admit I thoroughly enjoyed that evening,

03:38probably after half-time. But yeah, no, it was good.

03:42Fantastic penalty drama here at the Meadow and a fantastic comeback from Paul Hurst men.

03:47As we've just said, we'll be discussing all that and the Stephen Higgs rugby match

03:51on tomorrow's episode of Shrewsbury, so do tune in.

03:54But from here at the Meadow, from me and from Oli, goodbye.

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