Youpies.co.uk gears up for County's next match, against Shrewsbury on Monday 24th March 2008. This match is one that County cannot afford lose after picking up 3 points yesterday when all around them lost, another victory would start to take some of the pressure off.

Statistics

Notts go into this fixture with 38 points, lying in a lowly 21st place, having won only 8 of 38 games, drawing 15 and loosing 15 times this season. Notts are just 6 points from safety and have played more games than most of the teams below them. Shrewsbury, who`ve just changed the management at The New Meadow; sit in 17th position in the table. They have won 11 drew 10 and lost 17 of their 38 games so far this season Shrewsbury have knocked up 43 points.

Other statistics for this match are as follows

Notts have a scoring rate of 110 minutes, indicating they may not score at the weekend or any other, however Shrewsbury score on average every 70 minutes. Notts let a goal in every 76 minutes whilst Shrewsbury let a goal in every 62 minutes. But what are statistics in football?

 

Current Form Last 6 matches

Shrewsbury in their last 6 matches have won 0, drawn 3 and lost 3 and are currently unbeaten in 1,

Sat 23 Feb	Hereford United	H	L2	L  1-2
Sat 01 Mar	Barnet	A	L2	L  1-4
Sat 08 Mar	Rotherham United	H	L2	D  1-1
Tue 11 Mar	Darlington	H	L2	D  0-0
Sat 15 Mar	Macclesfield Town	A	L2	L  1-2
Sat 22 Mar	Dagenham & Redbridge	A	L2	D  1-1

 

Notts in their last 6 matches have won 1, drawn 3 and lost 2 and are currently unbeaten in 2,

Sat 23 Feb	Bradford City	H	L2	L 1-3
Sat 01 Mar	Macclesfield Town	A	L2	D 1-1
Sat 08 Mar	Barnet	H	L2	D 0-0
Tue 11 Mar	Lincoln City	H	L2	L 0-1
Sat 15 Mar	Peterborough United	A	L2	D 0-0
Sat 22 Mar	Rochdale	H	L2	W 1-0

Meetings

The most recent meeting was this season at home to Shrewsbury with Notts on the right side of a 2-1 score line. Previously the last time was in the 2006/2007 season; when the two teams battled out a 1-1 draw at Meadow Lane but Notts lost away at Shrewsbury 2-0.

Other Meetings

2007/2008	Sat 08 Dec	Notts County	2 - 1	Shrewsbury T	L2
2006/2007	Tue 20 Feb	Shrewsbury T	2 - 0	Notts County	L2
2006/2007	Tue 08 Aug	Notts County	1 - 1	Shrewsbury T	L2
2005/2006	Sat 21 Jan	Notts County	2 - 1	Shrewsbury T	L2
2005/2006	Sat 17 Sep	Shrewsbury T	2 - 0	Notts County	L2
2004/2005	Sat 23 Apr	Shrewsbury T	1 - 1	Notts County	L2
2004/2005	Sat 06 Nov	Notts County	3 - 0	Shrewsbury T	L2

 

Key Men

With 11 goals so far this season, Richard Butcher has emerged as Notts main threat this season. The ex-Peterborough man does not light the game up but he finds those spaces around the area and with 11 goals so far he is a midfield player with an eye for goal. Barnet will have to be wary of Butcher’s runs into the area because he as the ability to score goal around the edge of the area.

Shrewsbury have striker Dave Hibbert who has been in good form lately, contributing 12 goals in total this season. The Notts defence will have to keep an eye on the Shrewsbury striker around the area because he also looks shooting at goal with 50 shots on or off target this season in the league.

 

Prediction

We at www.youpies.co.uk think this will be a close game. Notts need to start winning a few games so we think the score will be

 

Shrewsbury Town 0-2 Notts County
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