Marcus Braddock previews Town's Sky Bet League One fixture against Wycombe Wanderers
This weekend Shrewsbury Town welcome thirteenth placed Wycombe Wanderers to Montgomery Waters Meadow in Sky Bet League One. The difference between Town and Wycombe is seven places but only four points with just nine points separating the bottom thirteen teams. With games running out, neither Shrewsbury or Wycombe are mathematically certain of League One survival next season so three points this weekend could make all the difference. Neither team has great form but Wanderers haven't won since January when they beat Plymouth at home and have lost six times in the nine games since.
Form
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Top Scorer (league games only)
Joe Jacobson 6
Adebayo Akinfenwa 5
Fred Onyedimma 4
Alex Samuel 4
Paris Cowan-Hall 4
Assists
Adebayo Akinfenwa 6
Joe Jacobson 5
Nick Freeman 3
Clean Sheets
Five at home and none away from home.
Wycombe away stats
With just three away wins all season, the Chairboys have averaged .8 points per away game and have lost half of their away games. They've scored an average of 1.2 goals but have conceded close to 1.9 away from Adams Park.
They've conceded 34 goals away from home with 41% occurring in the first half and 59% in the second. They've scored 22 away goals which were coincidentally split in exactly the proportion, 41% to 59% in the second half.
Referee
Trevor Kettle from Rutland. Games this season: 36. Yellow cards:148. Red cards: 6.
Squad News.
James Bolton remains a doubt still with an ankle injury.
Summary
We're getting toward the end of the season and the games are running out so we really need to find the form we showed against Doncaster and Peterborough. I honestly think there is more than enough quality in this squad to stay up but confidence seems a little changeable depending on how we're doing so we need a good start. We also need to hold it together defensively, again, we're more than capable of that with eleven clean sheets in League One this season, that's just under a third. We just need to find the form that saw us go five games unbeaten recently.