Shrewsbury Town 7-0 Gillingham: result and report
League Two · Saturday 13 September 2008
Result
Shrewsbury Town 7-0 Gillingham
League Two · Saturday 13 September 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 4-0
Shrewsbury Town 7-0 Gillingham: match report
Shrewsbury Town defeated Gillingham 7-0 in the League Two on Saturday 13 September 2008. It was 4-0 at half-time.
M. Jackson opened the scoring in the 27th minute. Shrewsbury Town's goals came from M. Jackson (27'), David Hibbert (30'), Ben Davies (42'), G. Coughlan (45'), Shane Cansdell-Sherriff (52'), Grant Holt (58', penalty) and Ben Davies (87'). Gillingham did not score.
Discipline: Shrewsbury Town received 2 yellow cards; Gillingham received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Shrewsbury Town were 5th on 10 points from 5 and Gillingham 7th on 10 points from 5. Shrewsbury Town went on to finish that season 7th with 71 points, and Gillingham 2nd with 82.
Going into the match Shrewsbury Town's last five read L-D-W-W-W and Gillingham's W-W-W-L-D.
Key events
- 18'Yellow card · Shane Cansdell-Sherriff
- 27'Goal · M. Jackson
- 30'Goal · David Hibbert
- 41'Yellow card · B. Fuller
- 41'Yellow card · Grant Holt
- 42'Goal · Ben Davies
- 45'Goal · G. Coughlan
- 45'Yellow card · C. Weston
- 52'Goal · Shane Cansdell-Sherriff
- 56'Yellow card · Adam Miller
- 58'Penalty goal · Grant Holt
- 75'Yellow card · C. Daniels
- 87'Goal · Ben Davies