Grimsby Town vs Shrewsbury Town - prediction, team news, lineups

Grimsby Town volition look to bounce backmost from their archetypal decision of the play erstwhile they invited Shrewsbury Town to Blundell Park connected Saturday afternoon, with a triumph perchance capable to nonstop them top of the League Two table.

The hosts saw their seven-game unbeaten commencement ended by a 2-1 decision to Newport County past weekend, portion the Shrews person won conscionable 2 of their opening 8 matches but question northbound unbeaten successful 3 aft a melodramatic 2-2 gully with Colchester United connected Saturday.

Match preview

Following a constrictive miss successful their bid for promotion to League One past season, erstwhile David Artell's broadside finished seventh earlier losing to Salford City successful the playoff semi-finals, the Mariners entered the caller run aiming to spell 1 measurement further this clip around.

Grimsby Town person made a affirmative commencement to the caller season, going unbeaten successful their opening 7 matches and signaling wins implicit Exeter City, Bristol Rovers and Crawley Town.

However, that tally besides included 4 consecutive draws, preventing Artell's broadside from moving apical of the League Two array and establishing a important spread implicit their chap playoff hopefuls.

If the Mariners tin instrumentality to winning ways against a broadside they person not mislaid to since 2015, determination is simply a accidental they could extremity the play astatine the apical of the table.

Although they were ne'er up astatine Rodney Parade past weekend, a acquainted contented for Artell and his broadside has been allowing promising positions successful matches to gaffe away, with leads against Fleetwood Town and Accrington Stanley yet resulting successful frustrating stalemates.

That said, their 8 goals conceded, an mean of 1 per game, ranks among the champion antiaircraft records successful the part truthful acold and is simply a cardinal crushed wherefore they could instrumentality to the apical of the fourth-tier standings by Saturday.

As for visitors Shrewsbury Town, they finished 10 points wide of the relegation portion past season and would person been hoping to marque a beardown commencement this clip astir to debar different conflict astatine the bottom.

After 8 League Two outings, Gavin Cowan's broadside person recorded 2 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats, leaving them 18th successful the array and conscionable 3 points wide of the relegation zone.

Despite that record, the Shrews caput into the play unbeaten successful their past three, pursuing a triumph implicit Northampton Town with draws against Crewe Alexandra and Colchester United.

The latest stalemate came astatine location to the U's past weekend, erstwhile they recovered from a extremity down to seemingly snatch a precocious triumph successful the 92nd infinitesimal done Isaac Fletcher, lone for Moses Sesay to equalise moments aboriginal and contradict Shrewsbury what would person been their 3rd league triumph of the campaign.

So far, Cowan's men person earned conscionable 1 constituent connected the roadworthy this season, with lone chap strugglers Exeter and Port Vale picking up fewer.

They present marque the 165-mile travel to North East Lincolnshire knowing that their distant grounds volition request to amended sooner alternatively than aboriginal if they are to debar different combat for survival.

The 2 sides faced each different doubly wrong 20 days past season, with a 1-1 gully astatine New Meadow preceding a 1-0 Grimsby Town triumph astatine Blundell Park successful their last gathering of 2025.

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Team News

Grimsby Town are expected to marque a alteration up of their ninth league lucifer of the play aft Mark Shelton was withdrawn aft 36 minutes successful South Wales, with Ryley Reynolds the astir apt campaigner to travel into the midfield five.

Captain Kieran Green's three-game scoring streak came to an extremity successful that match, but helium is expected to clasp his spot successful the XI, portion Welsh guardant Iwan Morgan is the astir apt subordinate to pb the line.

The visiting side, meanwhile, tin sanction the aforesaid starting lineup that was denied a triumph precocious connected past weekend.

Cowan is expected to instrumentality with his back-five formation, with Josh Davison and George Lloyd acceptable to proceed unneurotic up front.

Grimsby Town imaginable starting lineup:

Pym; Rodgers, Kacurri, McJannet, Sweeney; Walker; Cartwright, Green, Shelton; Vernam; Morgan

Shrewsbury Town imaginable starting lineup:

Brook; Stubbs, Boyle, Anderson; Hoole, Sang, Turner-Cooke, Berkoe; Fletcher; Davison, Lloyd

We say: Grimsby Town 2-0 Shrewsbury Town

Grimsby person been 1 of the stronger sides successful the part truthful far, portion Shrewsbury's struggles connected the roadworthy permission them facing a hard day astatine Blundell Park.

We expect the Mariners to instrumentality vantage and instrumentality to winning ways with a comfy victory.

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