Shrewsbury Town 4-0 Bristol Rovers: result and report
League One · Tuesday 17 October 2017
Result
Shrewsbury Town 4-0 Bristol Rovers
League One · Tuesday 17 October 2017, 18:45 UTC · half-time 4-0
Shrewsbury Town 4-0 Bristol Rovers: match report
Shrewsbury Town beat Bristol Rovers 4-0 in the League One on Tuesday 17 October 2017. The half-time score was 4-0.
Alex Rodman opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Shrewsbury Town's goals came from Alex Rodman (12'), Carlton Morris (24'), Jon Nolan (29') and Junior Brown (41'). Bristol Rovers did not score.
Discipline: Shrewsbury Town received no yellow cards; Bristol Rovers received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Shrewsbury Town were 2nd on 31 points from 13 and Bristol Rovers 13th on 18 points from 13. Shrewsbury Town went on to finish that season 3rd with 94 points, and Bristol Rovers 13th with 59.
Shrewsbury Town lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Bristol Rovers in a 4-3-3.
Going into the match Shrewsbury Town's last five read D-D-W-W-D and Bristol Rovers's L-W-W-L-W.
Key events
- 12'Goal · Alex Rodman
- 24'Goal · Carlton Morris
- 29'Goal · Jon Nolan
- 41'Goal · Junior Brown
- 44'Yellow card · C. Lines
Team news
Shrewsbury Town line-up (4-1-4-1)
Dean Henderson, Ben Godfrey, Matt Sadler, Junior Brown, James Bolton, Toto Nsiala, Abumere Tafadzwa Ogogo, Abdelhak Belaid, Alex Rodman, Shaun Whalley, Carlton Morris
Bristol Rovers line-up (4-3-3)
Sam Slocombe, Tom Lockyer, Ryan Sweeney, Marc Bola, Joe Partington, Liam Sercombe, Ollie Clarke, Chris Lines, Ellis Harrison, Tom Nichols, Rory Gaffney