Ollie Westbury analyses another Shrewsbury defeat as they slip to Burton loss

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Ollie Westbury gives his take as Salop continue their slide towards relegation with a 2-0 defeat against Burton Albion. It was goalless in then first half but second half strikes from the visitors leave Salop 14 points adrift at the foot of the table.

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00:00It's been another trying day for Shrewsbury Town supporters and all those connected with

00:08the football club as they fall to yet another disappointing defeat in League One. That is

00:15their sixth in their last seven games. They've scored just one goal in the last six games.

00:22They've conceded from two set pieces, just like they conceded from two set pieces at

00:27Exeter last weekend and Shrewsbury Town head coach Gareth Ainsworth has said that it's

00:31particularly disappointing because it feels as if they're back to square one from when

00:35he first came in. Obviously the last game, the last League One game before he came in

00:40was a 2-0 defeat at Burton and today the reverse fixture has finished exactly the same way.

00:45It was an abject game of football with two pretty awful teams. Burton were absolutely

00:51atrocious and they're going to League Two as well. So it was an incredibly difficult

00:58afternoon. Shrewsbury just cannot get anything going at the moment. All momentum that was

01:06kind of with them after they got back-to-back wins against Mansfield and Rotherham and then

01:11picked up a point against Reading on the road appear to have dissipated into the ether.

01:18The game started, I was discussing with somebody in the press box, but it was almost like you

01:24could hear the conversation in the ground during the first half, so little happened.

01:28Mason Bennett, who missed two sitters in the clash, missed a second one after the break.

01:35He missed the first one before it. Shrewsbury went to a four at the back today, making a

01:40couple of changes, four changes to the starting 11, but it didn't really pay dividends and

01:46Shrews, they just don't really look like scoring, which is just a bit of a big, big

01:50problem. The goal came, or the most important goal came, the first one. Burrell, the scorer,

01:57header from a set-piece, he got up highest. Jamal Blackman got a hand on it, but it wasn't

02:01enough to stop it from going into the net and then Shrewsbury trailed. I think the disappointing

02:06thing from that perspective is as soon as they went behind, that was it, it was gone.

02:11They kind of slumped, they looked defeated when that goal came in and I think the result

02:18was pretty inevitable from that point onwards. They scored a second from another set-piece

02:24kind of late on as we were heading towards the closing stages. There was some pretty

02:28vociferous chanting akin to what we saw at Salford or Salford, or however you want to

02:33say it earlier in the season, towards the directors of the club, chants towards Mickey

02:38Moore and to the chairman, Roland Whitcherley. The club is in a pretty bleak place right

02:43now. It's been a pretty awful season. There's plenty of unwanted records that they're going

02:48to want to avoid, but as far as evenings and afternoons go at football, that was up there

02:56again. Each week Shrewsbury managed to find themselves at a kind of new low and that was

03:02an incredibly disappointing defeat from a Shrewsbury perspective. They've now got nine

03:09dead-rubbers to go, not ten, nine dead-rubbers to go. That gap has been extended to 14 points

03:16and Town find themselves in a really, really tricky spot. Struggling to come up with the

03:22words to sum up how everybody must be feeling, how supporters must be feeling, how people

03:27connected with the football club must be feeling, because I myself feel quite flat

03:31too. All your reaction, dropshot.com.

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