Jonny Drury and Ollie Westbury analyse Salop's 2-0 defeat to Exeter.
Toto Nsiala gifted the first goal to the visitors before Salop missed a string of chances.
A second came midway through the second period and Salop failed to produce a comeback.
Toto Nsiala gifted the first goal to the visitors before Salop missed a string of chances.
A second came midway through the second period and Salop failed to produce a comeback.
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00:00Hello and welcome to ShropshireStar.com, my name is Jonny Jury, his name is Ollie Westbury
00:12and Shrewsbury have stuttered a bit, looked like they were back on track with a draw and
00:16a win but they've come unstuck here against Exeter tonight, live on Sky. Feels strange
00:22being here on a Thursday night to be honest Ollie. It does, it does, I agree. I described
00:27to you in the game a Shrewsbury performance that was good from one line on the pitch,
00:32their own penalty area to the other line on the pitch. It kind of feels like Shrewsbury
00:36have lost this game rather than Exeter have maybe won it. Yeah, I think there's a little
00:40bit of that involved isn't there. Obviously, I mean the elephant in the room is the mistake
00:46isn't there. Ten minutes in, it's an inexcusable mistake really, it's a bit needless. I know
00:51that town have tried to play and they've played well at times but he's got caught in possession,
00:57on the edge of his 18-yard box and don't get me wrong, he's gone on, he's finished it well
01:01but it just feels like a very unnecessary risk at that stage of the game when you're
01:06looking to go for your back-to-back wins for the first time since February 2023 and it's
01:11just not what you need and Shrewsbury aren't going to start picking up points unless they
01:17stop conceding goals. I don't know what the exact stat is but it feels like every time
01:22they play they let in at least two and that means you've got a score three to win doesn't
01:25it and that ain't going to happen very often and unless Shrewsbury can shore up at the
01:29back and unless they can stop letting in goals then this is going to be a very challenging
01:35season and a lot of it is not like they're getting cut open. They're not getting cut
01:39open, they're just making daft mistakes and you can't legislate for that. The only way
01:46to change that is to take people out of the team but yeah, it was a bad start but to be
01:53fair to town they responded brilliantly from that. That was probably the best 45 minutes
01:58of the season that we've seen from them so far after they went behind in the 9th minute
02:03or something like that. They were excellent, they played some really nice football, they
02:07passed it around nicely and right when you thought here we go, 1-1, their goalkeeper
02:12would make a save or they'd miss a really good opportunity. I think there was three
02:14or four chances that they had and to go in trailing in that football match in the first
02:19half is absolutely criminal. They should not have been trailing. The second half was
02:25a bit of a different story but yeah. You said there if you concede two you've got to score
02:30three. Feasibly in this game, Salop could have scored three and that's not saying shots
02:34from outside the box. They had some really good clear-cut chances. There was a couple
02:39in the second half but mostly in the first half. It's a case of, like I say, if you can't
02:47score keep the ball out the net but they can't keep the ball out the net so they need to
02:49score. But they are creating the chances. For me, I don't watch Shrewsbury as much but
02:55kind of a severe lack of quality in that final little section. Up to then I was really, really
03:01impressed by Shrewsbury tonight. If you don't address that, it's going to be a long, hard
03:08season. It could be even harder if they don't address that. I don't know what the answer
03:13is, whether it's personnel. They've lost Daniel Udo and I think Daniel Udo and his team would
03:17probably score a decent amount of goals because Shrewsbury do create, or certainly did tonight.
03:22They were probably some of the most clear-cut chances that we've seen them have this season.
03:28Probably one that hasn't gone, won't go down on the stats actually is the penalty claim
03:33the Leo Castledine. When he's running through, he's got to shoot there. He's kind of played
03:38it back to Mal Benning. He's had a shot, obviously it's hit Ryan Woods' hands and it's a clear
03:43penalty but he just should shoot and score. He's six yards out, he just needs to finish
03:48it and it's those decisions that are costing them at the moment which is just really, really
03:53disappointing from a Shrewsbury Town perspective.
03:55In terms of, obviously they've got the weekend off this week playing Thursday night but it's
04:02kind of difficult to know what to say. We'll talk more about it on the Shrewsbury's podcast
04:06tomorrow but they just need results. They just need something to fall to. It's not the
04:11case of just one thing falling, they just need to find a way of being more clinical
04:16in the box.
04:17Another point and we'll talk about it more on the podcast and we'll wrap up the video
04:19on this. Made changes late tonight, didn't really have a chance to make as much of an
04:25impact. We've got someone like Tommy O'Reilly sitting on the bench. I know he got 22 minutes
04:29I think he was on the field but surely you need your creative players, your Sago Juniors.
04:34Paul Hurst has just been asked about that in his post-match press conference and he
04:38said that the subs didn't really make that much of an impact, albeit the ones that he
04:44brought on later on didn't have that much time to make that much of an impact. He said
04:51that he felt like it was going okay so obviously that's his divine right to make those decisions.
04:56He's the boss isn't he? It's tough isn't it because last Saturday he made changes and
05:03as soon as he made changes he switched formation albeit against 10 men and they scored four
05:08goals, switched formation and it turned the game around. I think they just ran out of
05:13steam second half. I think Exeter changed, the opposition changed, they changed formation,
05:18they made changes at the break. It's very rare that you see a side go in leading at
05:21a break and they come out in the second half and make a double change. It basically tells
05:28you that the 1-0 scoreline wasn't really how that first half went. Perhaps the only thing
05:35was probably the triple change, that one right at the very end was perhaps a little
05:40bit... if you want those three players to come on and make a difference. But I think
05:44really Trousby's race was run by that point. They did look as if they ran out of ideas
05:50a little bit in that second half as it wore on and perhaps they just needed to be a little
05:53bit more direct as Exeter dropped in a bit deep and probably didn't quite press them
05:57as hard as they did in the first half.
05:59Another defeat for Shrewsbury doesn't get any easier at all. Final score here from the
06:03Meadows, 7-0 Exeter 2. All the rest of your reaction head over to ShropshireStar.com