8 goals, cards dished out, and chaotic scrambles as Shrewsbury beat Crawley 5-3

8 goals, cards dished out, and chaotic scrambles as Shrewsbury beat Crawley 5-3 on Saturday afternoon, what a game this was.

If there is any match to watch highlights of this weekend, it’s this one, action packed with so much going on in this thriller.

The lead changed hands three times at Broadfield Stadium, with Crawley picking up a fifth successive league defeat for the first time in 19 months. While for Shrewsbury, it was their second League One win of the season.

It means Crawley fall to 22nd in the table with 7 points from 22 games played, while Shrewsbury are 21st with 8 points from 11 games.

Shrewsbury: Savin, M Feeney, Nsiala, J Feeney (Bloxham 70), Benning, Gilliead, Rossiter, Ojo (Perry 70), Castledine (Sagoe Jr), Marquis, Lloyd.

Subs not used: Young, Winchester, Nurse, O’Reilly.

Crawley: Trueman, Barker, Forster (Mukena 69), Swan, Darcy (Camara 61), Hepburn-Murphy (Kelly 69), Quitirna (Anderson 61), Ibrahim (Holohan 68), Mullarkey, Williams, Flint.

Subs not used: Anderson, Holohan, Roles, Showunmi.

Crawley boss Rob Elliot said: “The sending-off changed the whole momentum of the game, and Shrewsbury made it difficult for us by getting the ball wide and getting crosses into the box.

“It is one of the toughest League Ones for some time, but I’ve seen more than enough in the squad to make me think we’ll be OK.

“Up until the sending-off we were the better team; the positives are that we are scoring goals and we need to do better at the other end.”

Salop boss Paul Hurst said: “There’s still a long way to go. I’m delighted with the win of course but there is still a lot we need to sort out.

“In the end I thought we were worthy winners – but 5-3? I would much prefer a 1-0 win with a sharp performance.

“I know it’s not so entertaining to the people, but we’ve got to find a way to take pressure off the defence and stop giving goals away. Overall we are happy, but not everything is right – not by any means.”

He added: “Marquis hasn’t started all the games and has been a bit frustrated. But he’s kept the attitude right to get back in the side.

“As I’ve told him, sulking is no good to the rest of the team.”

🎥 Paul Hurst speaks to @studunn21 @BBCShropSport after #Shrewsbury 5-3 win at Crawley pic.twitter.com/1OUVcHK53C

— BBC Sport Shropshire (@BBCShropSport) October 12, 2024

Here’s how Twitter users reacted on the 8 goals, cards dished out, and chaotic scrambles as Shrewsbury beat Crawley 5-3…

ON SHREWSBURY:

@jkanalysis7: My god, did not think a front two of John Marquis & George Lloyd would even lead Shrewsbury to victory today, let alone get 2 goals each. An encouraging point at Bolton last week has just turned into something really special today. Paul Hurst needed that, a lot. #Salop

@markjones53: Huuuuuuuge win. Good character shown when we went 2-1 behind.

@KindnessLizzy: Winning, but winning away?! Are we feeling ok? 😅

@ShrewsburyJohn1: Didn’t see that coming tbh, but fair play to the resilient attitude. Hasn’t been plentiful this year and need a result against @OfficialECFC to gain momentum

@DanParry29: A win away A win away A win away A win away

@MarcPetty9: Working this afternoon, so I didn’t even hear the radio commentary. So glad I didn’t miss anything: like BOTH of our strikers SCORING a BRACE, us scoring FIVE GOALS, or WINNING a game of football… AWAY from home!!! 😮😮😮 #Salop 🔵🟠

@SamPoole2006: Defending was shocking. But I don’t care cause shrews have finally won. Get in there!

@jhu1401: The Northern lights have been seen more times this year than one of these… but still 👏🏽 #salop

@TomWootton6601: Defence is so worrying. Massive win. Thought morgan feeney had a very good game

@TheLeftyScot: Well, what a welcome surprise this is…WE’VE WON A FOOTBALL MATCH!!!!!!🥳🔵🟠 #Salop

@benjenkers: Mental match, to be fair. We are still well off it, if I’m being real. Our defense is seriously a worry

@Cam3Evans: Absolute huge win! We fucking needed that but we have to sort our defence out and fast. Season starts now! Great to see Lloyd and Marquis firing 🤩 we go again Thursday!!

@Evsbech1: Missed the first half (which is usually the good bit) but the second half was certainly entertaining for a change!!!

ON CRAWLEY

@FalknerJosh: Yes the red doesn’t help, but that’s on Elliot!!! 50% of the outfield team changed within 9 minutes. 2 made after going 2-1 up (when we had good shape) and then 3 fucking subs when defending a corner which is criminal! Screams inexperienced and panicked substitutions!!!

@jaisra02: Some poor refereeing decisions but Rob Elliot got to take some accountability there. Can’t be so naive as to taking off your only attacking threat at 2-1, leaving on an injured defender and making all 5 subs whilst the keepers gone down several times.

@maccio_carlo: Shooocking substitutions today , 10 men didn’t help but the substitutions and timing of them cost us that game today

@paulthedom: I was not there today but win lose or draw still my team. #TTT

@EllisBarton: Discipline was poor, decision making was poor. I don’t know what changes Elliot has been making, but unfortunately they don’t seem to fit us.

@IHickmott: Bizarrely naive of Flint to get 2x yellows in 3 minutes; the ref already set his stall out as a stickler. Crazy subs by the manager & the inevitable capitulation came. No excuse for not defending corners even if down to 10. Give him the benefit of the doubt I guess but they are huge

@TomJC1285: Fucking abysmal, all on Rob Elliott that game. Piss poor subs lost us the game. To concede 9 at home in 2 games is atrocious and it needs to change quickly. Team selection all wrong. Leaving out creative players and dropping our main goal scoring threat to a 10 or winger…🤷‍♂️

@HaleMike: Dreadful management decisions regarding substitutions, especially when you are defending a corner. Team became instantly disjointed.

@H86Andy: The manager is not up for it. Why take all the attacking threat off. The game wasn’t won.