Match Preview: Shrewsbury Town v Blackpool (Saturday, 3pm)

Blackpool travel to Shrewsbury Town on Saturday in League One.

The visitors come into the game on the back of a defeat in their last match, having lost to Leyton Orient 1-0 away.

The Shrews also lost their last match, 3-0 against Lincoln City.

With 26 goals in 35 games so far this season, Shrewsbury are the league’s joint-second-lowest scorers with 0.7 goals per game. And they are conceding more than average, letting in 49 goals at a rate of 1.4 per game.

Blackpool, meanwhile, are above average scorers, with 1.5 goals per game, compared to a league average of 1.3. They have conceded 1.2 goals per game.

In the last 10 years, Shrewsbury and Blackpool have played each other on 12 occasions. Shrewsbury won seven of them, Blackpool one, and they drew four times.

On average, the Shrews scored 0.9 goals and the Seasiders 0.6 in those matches.

Their last meeting was on November 18, when Blackpool won 4-0 at home.

Town are 19th in the table after 35 games, of which they have won 11 and drawn five, earning 38 points.

The Seasiders are 10 places ahead of the Shrews in ninth, with 15 wins and eight draws putting them on 53 points.

The home side are in disappointing form in League One, with one win and two draws from their last six games.

With two wins and a draw over that period, the visitors’ form is slightly better – they have taken seven points from 18, compared to Shrewsbury’s five.

In Jordan Rhodes, Blackpool have one of the league’s sharpest shooters so far this season. He has notched 15 goals in 25 appearances, to sit fifth in the scoring charts.

His goal rate of one every 140 minutes is much quicker than that of Daniel Udoh, Shrewsbury’s top scorer with a goal every 478 minutes, and a total of five goals in 29 games.

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Shrewsbury Town v Blackpool
League One | The Croud Meadow
Saturday, 2 March 2024 @ 3.00pm

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