Tomorrow afternoon sees the final game of the season with Shrewsbury Town making the short journey to the Alexandra Stadium. Both teams will have players that the other set of fans will recognise as the Shrews have both Daniel Udoh and Brad Walker while the Alex have Omar Beckles and Olly Lancashire as well as forwards Mikael Mandron and Chris Porter in theirs.
NB: This game kicks off at 12:00 pm not at 3:00 pm.
This Season:
They sit in 17th place following wins against AFC Wimbledon, Hull City, Lincoln City, Doncaster Rovers, Blackpool twice, Peterborough United, Swindon Town, Sunderland, MK Dons, Rochdale, Burton Albion and Plymouth Argyle, they have drawn against Portsmouth, Plymouth Argyle, Gillingham twice, Burton Albion, Swindon Town, MK Dons, Accrington Stanley, Charlton Athletic twice, Wigan Athletic, Accrington Stanley, AFC Wimbledon, Hull and Ipswich Town while they have lost against Northampton Town twice, Bristol Rovers twice, Rochdale, Fleetwood Town twice, Peterborough United, Ipswich Town, Sunderland, us, Portsmouth, Oxford United twice, Doncaster, Wigan and Lincoln.
They beat Cambridge United and Oxford City (after extra-time) before losing to Southampton in the FA Cup and lost to Middlesbrough in the 1st Round of the EFL Cup. They won all 3 games in the EFL Trophy group that also contained the Alex, Newcastle United’s Under-21s and Bolton Wanderers before losing to Lincoln City in Round 2.
Transfers:
Since the last meeting, they have loaned out Ryan Barnett to 2 different non-league clubs.
Head-to-Head:
Alex Wins: 14
Shrews Wins: 18
Draws: 13
Biggest Alex Win: 5-1 at the Alexandra Stadium in November 1996
Biggest Shrews Win: 4-1 at Gay Meadow in December 1992
Last Meeting
Shrewsbury Town 0-1 Crewe Alexandra, 2nd February 2021
Owen Dale got the only goal of the game in the 27th minute.
Alex: Richards; Johnson, Lancashire, Beckles, Pickering; Murphy, Wintle, Finney (Lowery 79); Powell (Walker 77), Mandron (Porter 90), Dale
Shrews: Sarkic; Sears (Daniels 57), Williams (Pyke 89), Ebanks-Landell, Pierre, Ogbeta; Norburn, Chapman, Vela; Whalley, Udoh (Davis 77)
Played for Both:
The following players have been contracted to both teams:
Goalkeepers: Joe Anyon, David Button, Paul Edwards, Geoff Hickson, Ken Mulhearn, John Phillips, Steve Phillips, Jack Prince, Scott Shearer
Defenders: Arthur Allman, David Artell, Omar Beckles, Danny Bowers, Junior Brown, Sagi Burton, David Collier, Mark Ellis, Darran Kempson, Olly Lancashire, Joe Maloney, Darren Moss, Colin Murdock, Danny O’Donnell, Michael Jackson, Matt Tootle, Dave Walton, Julian Watts
Midfielders: Lee Bell, Keith Briggs, Maurice Doyle, Peter Farrell, William Galley, Anthony Grant, David Fox, Albert Harley, Stan Keery, Tony Rigby, Antoni Sarcevic, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Neil Sorvel, Kevin Street, Brad Walker
Forwards: Steve Anthrobus, John Clowes, Colin Cramb, John Cull, Steve Guinan, John Grant, Terry Harkin, Fred Haycock, AJ Leitch-Smith, Ryan Lowe, Mikael Mandron, John Manning, Shaun Miller, John Moore, Percy Oldacre, Reg Phillips, Chris Porter, John Regan, Luke Rodgers, Darran Rowbotham, Michael Symes, Alan Tarbuck, Daniel Udoh, Dave Waller
Officials:
The officials for this game have been announced here with Anthony Backhouse the referee, Matthew Parry and Richard Bartlett are his assistants with Marvyn Amphlett the fourth official. The following games have been refereed by Backhouse in the last 5 years:
- Crewe Alexandra 1-0 Barnet (19th August 2017) – Porter
- Crewe Alexandra 0-2 Accrington Stanley (21st October 2017)
- Crewe Alexandra 0-1 Blackburn Rovers (13th December 2017, FA Cup)
- Crewe Alexandra 3-1 Forest Green Rovers (20th March 2018) – Bowery (2), Kirk
- Crewe Alexandra 1-0 Stevenage (29th December 2018) – Porter
- Crewe Alexandra 1-3 Burton Albion (3rd September 2019) – Green
- Bolton Wanderers 2-3 Crewe Alexandra (8th September 2020, EFL Trophy) – Mandron (2), Dale
- Accrington Stanley 1-0 Crewe Alexandra (24th November 2020)
