Ollie Westbury analysis after latest Shrewsbury Town defeat in EFL Trophy defeat to Walsall

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Ollie Westbury gives his take on Shrewsbury Town's EFL Trophy defeat to Walsall.

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00:00Shrewsbury won Arsenal 3 here in the EFL Trophy.

00:06Myself and George have been watching for the Express and Star and the Shops and Star.

00:09George, what did you make of the events that have unfolded in a very rainy, wet crowd meadow this evening?

00:14Yeah, exactly that. You know, I think we can all agree that the EFL Trophy and especially the group stages

00:20aren't always the most exciting in terms of the spectacle, but I think it was a, you know,

00:26really well-contested game today and for the first hour, Shrewsbury definitely had the better of things

00:33and, you know, Walsall took the lead inside four minutes, carving Shrewsbury open.

00:37But the way Shrewsbury responded, going behind, got themselves leveled, you know, within five minutes.

00:44And there's so many chances really to put themselves in the lead at the bar twice.

00:49Sam Hornby was forced into a series of good saves.

00:53But once Walsall, you know, did go ahead for Albert Odoma, a poor pass across the defence,

01:00he was there to pounce, put it away really confidently for his 100th club career goal.

01:06They felt at Walsall had a bit between their teeth and, you know, it was kind of quite clear

01:10that there was only one team that was going to score the next goal.

01:13And I thought Gio Ducocchi come on for his debut, was superb, provided real pace and energy

01:18and took his goal really well, squeezing the ball beyond the Shrewsbury goalkeeper.

01:23And, yeah, that was, you know, a game set and match then.

01:25And, you know, with 11 changes, it was a really good exercise for Walsall.

01:28We've got some youngsters on the pitch.

01:30Stan Stroll was brilliant coming on for Priestley-Farkerson before the break.

01:34McLloyd-Obbin also came on, did really well, didn't look out of place in midfield.

01:38And then a few minutes at the end for Charlie Rags.

01:41So, yeah, you know, a good evening all round for Walsall.

01:44But, you know, you would have been disappointed from a Shrewsbury perspective,

01:47just purely in terms of the result, because it was a promising performance in the first hour.

01:51Yeah, Shrewsbury have kind of evolved a little bit.

01:54You know, they started the season not playing that well.

01:56And then over the last week or so, they've produced now four fairly decent performances.

02:02It was a disappointing first goal to concede.

02:04But I thought they bounced back really well, scored an excellent goal,

02:07one of the best goals that I've seen Shrewsbury score for quite a long time.

02:10The ball worked out wide to the left.

02:12Good crossing, good jump from the Davyton.

02:14Bradley, I'm not even going to begin to try and pronounce his surname.

02:17I need to get some clarity on how I pronounce his surname.

02:22But a really, really good header.

02:24Shrewsbury should have been out of sight probably at half-time.

02:28They had that many chances. I think they hit the bar twice.

02:30And then I thought they start, I think, probably agree with what you said,

02:35like up to 60 minutes, I think town played pretty well.

02:38But then it kind of feels like they play badly and they lose.

02:41They play well and they lose.

02:42And they've just got into this bit of a habit at the moment of managing to lose games of football

02:46that, you know, at times tonight you felt like Shrewsbury were really in the driving seat.

02:51But, I mean, I was talking to you in the press box and obviously I went to watch Warsaw play in the two playoff games,

03:00the two Chesterfield games at the end of last season.

03:02And it felt like I was watching the Matt Sadler team again tonight.

03:07As soon as they were given a sniff in that game, they were handed the 2-1 lead by mistake.

03:11And they were ruthless in kind of seeing the game out from that moment onwards.

03:16Salvatadoma, I mean, everybody knows what a good player he is.

03:21So, yeah, it ended up being probably in those last 25 minutes or 20 minutes,

03:27however long it was, ended up being a bit of a non-event as Warsaw managed the game really well, didn't they?

03:32Yeah, well, I think, you know, what you said there is the fact that probably the most positive sign for Warsaw

03:37was the fact that they're winning games in different ways.

03:39You know, for the first 40 minutes against Barnett, they swept them away.

03:42And then, you know, it's poor performance on the ball for the rest of that game.

03:46But they managed to, you know, dig their way to victory.

03:49Two really sort of solid and efficient performances over the back-to-back wins against Salford and MK Dons.

03:54Two very different types of games.

03:56So, you know, and then today, probably second best for the first hour.

04:00But, you know, they've still got that ruthless streak in front of Gold to get the win.

04:05So, I think that very much bodes well for Warsaw.

04:09And just an update on Priestley-Farcus.

04:12So, I spoke to Matt Sadler and he said, you know, he sort of was feeling his groin as he'd come off.

04:17Obviously, he had really bad, oh, and the lights come off just as we're finishing.

04:20But, yeah, you can still hear us.

04:22So, we'll continue.

04:23But, yeah, just Matt Sadler was optimistic on that one.

04:26Says he knows his body well, came off with a precaution.

04:28So, he's hopeful it's nothing too serious.

04:30And I think that's our cue to leave.

04:32All your reaction will be on the Shropshire Star and the Express and Star websites.

04:37So, let's say in advance.

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04:49But, yeah, I hope you will subscribe.

04:51Hopefully, that's good.

04:52So, it's so fast that we've got a day on.

04:53It's really interesting to kind ofuries on the social media standpoint.

04:55Quite widely in order to where we have a couple of young empathy athletes.

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05:00So, hopefully that's an update without hesitation.

05:01So, if we just a call it straight wire,

05:03so, we can then try and also take a couple of 60 at 13-1300.

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