Improving Shrewsbury made it three straight league wins for the first time in more than three years as Taylor Perry’s second-half goal put a dent in Notts County’s promotion hopes.<\/p>\n
County missed the chance to fire themselves into the top three as the hosts maintained their seven-point cushion over the relegation zone with a 1-0 home win.<\/p>\n
Shrews’ stopper Matt Cox was forced into a good early save from Lewis Macari’s header after he escaped his marker to meet Jodi Jones’ corner.<\/p>\n
Cox was alert to the danger as he got down low to keep out Jones’ free-kick, which was struck under the wall.<\/p>\n
At the other end, James Belshaw did well to keep out Iwan Morgan’s effort in the 35th minute.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the restart, Belshaw produced a brilliant stop to keep out Josh Ruffels’ header.<\/p>\n
However, there was nothing the goalkeeper could do to stop Taylor Perry smashing home after Morgan’s long throw eventually fell to him in the box in the 54th minute.<\/p>\n
It was almost two on the hour when Belshaw parried away Morgan’s strike after the Welshman pounced on a poor Matt Platt pass.<\/p>\n
There was a worry at the end for Gavin Cowan’s hosts when Cox spilled a long-range Platt drive, before recovering in the nick of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Improving Shrewsbury made it three straight league wins for the first time in more than three years as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-487430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}