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Reading 1 Shrewsbury 1 - Ollie Westbury analysis
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11/02/2025
Reading 1 Shrewsbury 1 - Ollie Westbury analysis
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I'm here at the Select Car Leasing Stadium where Shrewsbury Town have taken
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a point against Reading in League One. It means they go three games unbeaten in
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the third tier of English football and they've taken seven points from their
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last three league fixtures. Their kind of revival under Gareth Ainsworth
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continued here in Berkshire as Town put in a really, really good performance, you
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know, both defensively and going forward and they will probably feel a little bit
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disappointed headed away from the Select Car Leasing Stadium that they did
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not pick up or take home more than just the solitary points. Team news, two
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changes made by Gareth Ainsworth as Harrison Biggins came in for his second
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start of the season. George Nurse also came in for a rare start. Both of those
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players did okay. Town missed a penalty 20 minutes in after a really, really
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bright start. They kind of bombarded the Reading goal and probably should have
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led, well they definitely should have led because they missed a penalty. John
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Marcus was his third consecutive penalty miss and unfortunately for the
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Town skipper, who has been very, very good in recent weeks, it was a very
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disappointing penalty from Town's talisman, from the player that has
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really, really kind of dragged them forward in recent weeks. He didn't get
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very good connection on it and unlike the one that he missed at Wrexham, it
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didn't bounce back, well it did bounce back to him, but the goalkeeper Joel
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Pereira in goal for Reading, who was excellent all night for the hosts, kept
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out both efforts from him. Town then, despite being really good in that
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opening 25-27 minutes, against the run of play almost really, saw the hosts with
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their only shot on target in the first half go ahead. I'm not going to attempt
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to pronounce Kevin Abehatem's name, but he was the man who kind of got the
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better of Luka Hall on the byline. Disappointing from Luka Hall, who has
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been another player who has improved so much under Gareth Ainsworth, but
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unfortunately on that occasion he was beaten far too easily at the byline,
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crossed to Wareham and he fired home. Town have got that resilient streak to
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them and we have seen that so many times in recent weeks. We saw it on Saturday at
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Rotherham when the hosts equalised, they went straight back down the other
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end and scored and they were not perturbed by going in 1-0 down at the
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break and within 10 minutes of the restart they were level. Taylor Perry,
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like London buses, he's waited well over a year for a goal and suddenly
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to come in the space of three days. A wonderful left-footed strike that was
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nodded forward first by Mal Bening and there we go. Both sides pushing for the
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win, probably not both sides actually, Shrewsbury were the team pushing for the
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win. I've just spoken to Gareth Ainsworth about it there and he kind of
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agreed with me that Shrewsbury were the side pushing, their locals were getting
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very frustrated as you could hear, you know, almost Reading's kind of taking
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their time and being happy with a point which they would be disappointed with, I
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am sure. Gareth Ainsworth full of positivity as you would expect, as he
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always is in his post-match press interview. He says it doesn't matter
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whether it's two points dropped, because they're going to get way
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more points than they need to stay up in any case. It's a relatively
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positive evening here, you kind of feel that, you know, given how well that they
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played, that maybe they could have taken a little bit more away from Reading this
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evening, but either way I think Shrewsbury fans will be happy with the
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point that they achieved.
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