Ollie Westbury on Shrewsbury's challenging week and uphill battle

Shropshire Star

Ollie Westbury discusses the latest from Shrewsbury Town - after they fell to seven points adrift in League One. A week that saw Salop suffer three defeats on the bounce saw other sides pick up key results to widen the gap.

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00:00It was a challenging weekend for Shrewsbury Town as they fell to their third consecutive

00:06League One loss, a loss which has huge implications on their League One survival. This campaign,

00:14you know, after taking seven, I think they took seven points from the nine available

00:19against Mansfield, Rotherham and Reading, and left themselves, you know, with momentum

00:24and in a really, really good place, you know, at the start of February. But it's been a

00:29tricky run, which has seen Shrewsbury lose three games in eight days, and now they find

00:34themselves in quite a pickle, and they are seven points adrift of Peterborough United,

00:40who they now face this weekend in what will turn out to be a pivotal clash in Shrewsbury

00:46Town's survival race this season. A tricky game it was, but it was a game against Stevenage

00:53that you would have expected town to get something from. It was the game that Shrewsbury would

00:58have looked at last week and thought, yes, they really can get something from this match,

01:04but they didn't do enough in a game which appeared to be, you know, a complete stalemate

01:10with Stevenage not even managing to register a shot on target. They shouldn't have lost,

01:15but they managed to find a way, which has felt as if it's been a curse a little bit

01:19all too often this season as town find themselves in a real, real tricky position. Three games

01:25against sides now, starting with Peterborough this weekend, who are just above them in the

01:30league table, and you cannot say that the importance of these games is absolutely huge

01:36as they head to London Road, or the Western Home Stadium, as it's called now this weekend.

01:43By Monday morning, we will have a pretty good idea of which way Shrewsbury's season is going to go.

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