- Shrewsbury Town have won two of the last three head-to-head matches, with one win for Crawley Town.
- Shrewsbury Town have won just four of their 21 away games in League Two 2025-2026 (D3, L14).
- Shrewsbury Town have conceded nearly 2 goals per game in away games in League Two 2025-2026.
Shrews seek a result after mixed run
Shrewsbury Town recorded their second win in five games when they beat Oldham Athletic at home last time out, a much-needed result that followed a dismal run in which they had lost three of the previous four. However, their away record remains woefully poor, and the Shrews have won just four of their 21 trips in League Two in 2025-2026, losing 14 of them.
On Saturday, they will travel to Crawley Town, a team who have lost their last two games, being beaten at home to Grimsby Town and losing away at Bristol Rovers in their most recent fixtures. While Shrewsbury Town are currently 18th in the table with 47 points from 43 games, Crawley are three places below them in 21st, with just 37 points from the same number of fixtures.
Managerial makeovers
Colin Kazim-Richards has been busy implementing his more progressive brand of football since taking the helm at Crawley in March 2026. His team have played a back three and wing-backs, with a high tempo and aggressive pressing style, but that has sometimes backfired in the last few games. Kazim-Richards has the attacking talent to trouble the Shrews, and Harry McKirdy is the Red Devils’ top scorer with eight goals from 31 League Two appearances. He has scored two of his side’s last five goals.
Gavin Cowan, meanwhile, has favoured a more compact and lower tempo approach since arriving at Shrewsbury in January 2026. He demands organisation, but situational pressing and a risk-managed approach, and his Shrews have found the net more than enough times to get results in their favour. George Lloyd has hit four times in 40 League Two matches in 2025-2026, and is the team’s top scorer.
Tactical match-up could favour the visitors
While the visitors have had the better of this fixture in recent years, I think they have enough about them to edge this one. Crawley have conceded 28 goals in 21 home games, an average of 1.33 per home game, and could see their ambition tested by a solid, pragmatic Shrewsbury side on Saturday.
This fixture is important to both sides, with momentum and league position at stake, and Shrewsbury can grab the three points, but I’m going for both teams to score at 83/100, and over 2.5 match goals at 11/10. The away win, meanwhile, is 14/5.
