Chesterfield 7-1 Shrewsbury Town: result and report

League One · Saturday 2 January 2016

Result

Chesterfield 7-1 Shrewsbury Town

League One · Saturday 2 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 3-0

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Chesterfield 7-1 Shrewsbury Town: match report

Chesterfield won against Shrewsbury Town 7-1 in the League One on Saturday 2 January 2016. It was 3-0 at half-time.

J. O'Shea opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Chesterfield's goals came from J. O'Shea (28'), J. O'Shea (40', penalty), Lee Novak (45+1'), Rai Simons (73'), Lee Novak (81', penalty), Rai Simons (87') and Lee Novak (89'). Shrewsbury Town scored through Zak Whitbread (66').

Discipline: Chesterfield received 3 yellow cards; Shrewsbury Town received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Chesterfield were 20th on 24 points from 24 and Shrewsbury Town 17th on 26 points from 24. Chesterfield went on to finish that season 18th with 53 points, and Shrewsbury Town 20th with 50.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Chesterfield win, 0 draws and 0 for Shrewsbury Town.

Going into the match Chesterfield's last five read D-L-L-L-L and Shrewsbury Town's W-D-L-D-L.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Yellow card · Ian BlackstoneShrewsbury Town
  • 28'Goal · J. O'SheaChesterfield · 1-0
  • 34'Yellow card · Junior BrownShrewsbury Town
  • 40'Penalty goal · J. O'SheaChesterfield · 2-0
  • 45+1'Goal · Lee NovakChesterfield · 3-0
  • 59'Yellow card · Chris HerdChesterfield
  • 66'Goal · Zak WhitbreadShrewsbury Town · 3-1
  • 70'Yellow card · Samy MorsyChesterfield
  • 71'Yellow card · Liam O'NeilChesterfield
  • 72'Yellow card · Liam LawrenceShrewsbury Town
  • 73'Goal · Rai SimonsChesterfield · 4-1
  • 80'Second yellow · Junior BrownShrewsbury Town
  • 81'Penalty goal · Lee NovakChesterfield · 5-1
  • 87'Goal · Rai SimonsChesterfield · 6-1
  • 89'Goal · Lee NovakChesterfield · 7-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Chesterfield 1, draws 0, Shrewsbury Town 0.

Team news

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Chesterfield line-up

Tommy Lee, Sam Hird, Charlie Raglan, Dion Donohue, Chris Herd, Sam Morsy, Jay O'Shea, Liam O'Neil, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Lee Novak, Gboly Ariyibi

Shrewsbury Town line-up

Mark Halstead, Zak Whitbread, Jermaine Grandison, Junior Brown, Anthony Gerrard, Ian Blackstone, Abumere Tafadzwa Ogogo, Larnell Cole, James Collins, Shaun Whalley, Scott Vernon