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Ollie Westbury on Shrewsbury's 1-0 win over Lincoln City
Shropshire Star
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26/12/2024
Salop took a huge step in their quest for survival with a Boxing Day win over Lincoln.
Morgan Feeney netted the only goal of the game, as the victory helped Gareth Ainsworth off the foot of the table.
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The lights at the Crowd Meadow have gone out, however Shrewsbury fans will be celebrating
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into the night after they collected their second win of the Gareth Ainsworth era here
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at the Crowd Meadow on Boxing Day, which has not been happy hunting ground for Shrewsbury
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in recent years. They've won just two of the last 15 on this day of the year, albeit most
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of those have been away, but today they got the result that they needed. They got a 1-0
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win against Lincoln City, who had play-off ambitions and have been in decent form so
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far this season, but Gareth Ainsworth's side scored early. Morgan Feeney with a goal in
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the 10th minute and they clung on. They kept their second clean sheet of the season. The
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defending at times this campaign has not been good enough, but you cannot fault them on
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this occasion as they were absolutely superb in a rear-guard display in severe fog here
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in Shropshire on a very chilly day after Christmas. It was a late Christmas present
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for the fans. The town boss made five changes. It was potentially surprising with the momentum
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that they gained against Wigan at the weekend, so that perhaps might have caught Lincoln
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off guard with the boss ringing the changes. That makes it 11 changes in the last two games,
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but they picked up four points, which is the all-important stat, and they kept their second
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clean sheet of the season. Their first since the end of August and it was an absolutely
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terrific defensive display, which I have already said. The first goal and the most important
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goal scored by Morgan Feeney came from a clever corner routine and the credit has all gone
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to Gareth Ainsworth's assistant, Mr Dobson, who is in charge apparently according to Ainsworth.
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He delegates his set-piece duties and Mr Dobson is the man who has created the goal. It was
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a very, very clever one. Interchanged between Leo Kasselheim, Jordan Shipley, got to Mal
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Benning at the byline, he pulled it back and Morgan Feeney poked it home. The two Feeneys
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and Aaron Pierre were absolutely phenomenal today, as was Mal Benning who got to the byline
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on multiple occasions and put dangerous crosses in. He almost got a goal as well in the second
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half, so absolutely terrific from Mal Benning just as much as it was from the rest of the
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Shrewsbury Town players. Taylor Perry came off at half-time. He picked up a yellow card
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but was pretty decent up until that point. Gareth Ainsworth choosing to be proactive
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rather than reactive for town. It gives them hope. It cuts their now six points adrift
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of Northampton Town who come here at the weekend on Sunday in another huge, huge match for
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Shrewsbury and they will be absolutely desperate and if they can get the all-elusive back-to-back
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wins for the first time since early in 2023, then it will leave Shrewsbury with a great
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chance of overcoming a huge deficit which was at one point ten points. It's now six
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and if they can get a victory against Northampton on Sunday, then that will come down even more.
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It feels like there is some, at last, there is some real room for optimism and Shrewsbury
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can head into the game with momentum and the exact same momentum that they had in coming
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into this one. It finished here. Shrewsbury Town 1-0 Lincoln.
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