AFC WIMBLEDON v SHREWSBURY TOWN LEAGUE ONE SATURDAY 14th SEPTEMBER 2019

Our next home game of the 2019/20 season and very sadly we are still looking for our first victory of the season after a very disappointing result losing 2-1 last time out against a team we will not name here. Still in the bottom three as a result only Bolton on their -11 points and Southend (0 points!) who amazingly seem to be even worse than us right now and have since sacked their latest manager. It's really time for a Dons win, yes we CAN do this but it's becoming very frustrating to say the least. At least midweek the development team had a 4-2 win against Swindon a game that included Anthony Wordsworth playing his first comeback so positive signs there. 

Expecting to see some of the new loan signings start and rightly so, the likes of Marcus Forss who is here from Brentford and this Finland U21 International has already scored his first goal for us so 'more please Marcus'. 

FORM GUIDE 
(Last 6 matches from last season in their respective leagues, starting with most recent)
AFC Wimbledon -- LDLLDL
Shrewsbury Town -- LDWDLL

LAST TIME OUT
Franchise FC 2 - 1 AFC Wimbledon
Ipswich Town 3 - 0 Shrewsbury Town

While we were losing 2-1, Shrewsbury themselves were on the wrong end of a result losing 0-3 at Ipswich Town. So they are currently sitting in 14th position in the early league one table and with 8 points so far you would expect them to be looking upwards while playing a side in the bottom three. They've recently signed a couple of higher profile players and in Jason Cummings a striker likely to cause our defence some problems if we are not too careful. Shrews manager Sam Ricketts is not to be underestimated and certain to have done his homework on the Dons before today.

Line Ups (Confirmed);

AFC WIMBLEDON

Odds -- 2/1 (William Hill) 

Trott (GK),  Delaney,  Kalambayi,  Nightingale (c),  O'Neill,  Wagstaff,  Hartigan,  Reilly,   Guinness-Walker,  Forss,  Pigott

Subs – Tzanev (GK),  Appiah,  Roscrow,  Rudoni,  Folivi,  Sanders,  Osew

SHREWSBURY TOWN

Odds --  15/8 (William Hill) 

O'Leary (Gk),  Love,  Williams,  Ebanks-Landell,  Pierre,  Giles,  Norburn,  Goss,  Laurent,  Udoh,  Lang

Subs – Murphy (Gk),  Beckles,  Walker,  McCormick,  Barnett,  Morison, ⚽ Cummings

  

Selected Bets on this event;

Over 1.5 goals in 1st Half @5/2
Penalty Awarded and Scored @4/1
Cards Over 45 points @5/2
Red Card in the match @9/2

⚽H/T Score – 1 - 0 [Ebanks-Landell 31' OG]

First Half Comment;

The visitors kick off this afternoon and we are underway at Kingsmeadow, and are quickly on the attacking winning a couple of early corners which the Dons manage to cope with. Marcus Forss seems to be linking up well with Joe Piggot and has a chance saved by the Shrews keeper, still level in an open game with twenty mins on the clock. A few more chances to break the deadlock but on 31 minutes it's an own goal by Ethan Ebanks-Landell that gives AFC Wimbledon the 1-0 lead. Hopefully this will lead to more as one will not be enough, and we are having plenty of attacking intent which I hope will continue into the second half...come on you Dons.

⚽F/T Score – 1 - 1 [Ebanks-Landell 31' og    Cummings 73']

Match Summary;

Knowing we cannot defend a lead it was no surprise to me that we conceded the equaliser, which puts us back into the bottom three and still waiting for our first win in the league.

My Man of the Match – Marcus Forss.

Referee -- Our referee for this important League One fixture will be Graham Salisbury who hails from Lancashire so I'm sure he'll be pleased of the long drive/train down to West London on the weekend. He took charge of only one game of ours last season the 1-1 draw with Bristol Rovers, and a 1-0 win the previous campaign against Northampton. Overall looks to flash the cards around and regularly sending people off so I think we'll have a bet in those markets today.

Attendance – 4,084.  

Next match:

Tuesday 17th September vs Coventry City (Away)

League One 19:45pm